What do you do if you are interested in science but know that you are not intelligent enough (+missed the train) to make any meaningful contributions?
>>7725194
You become a pop sci pleb.
>>7725194
Subscribe to popular science magazine and buy a box set of all of big bang theory
>>7725194
make threads on /sci/, watch big bang theory and subscribe to numberphile
there's a bingo chart somewhere you can look into
>>7725204
>there's a bingo chart somewhere you can look into
"meaningful contributions" take lifelong effort and are no light undertaking.
Furthermore, it's not at all about intelligence. It's about working on something almost all day every day for many years. To maintain this kind of dedication you need strong passion, and that is probably the most important part.
>>7725211
>passion is the most important part
>just b urself :>)
>this is what low IQ plebs actually believe
>>7725194
Jesus fuck the anxiety on this board.
Here's a newsflash: Most scientists aren Jacob the memester or Hawking or von Neumann. They are slightly intelligent people who work hard to achieve a minor contribution in a minor part of their respecitve field.
What you want to be is some supermind mathgenius who solves all of quantum field theory for breakfast, which obviously is not going to happen. That doesn't mean you can't work in in the fields like anyone else.
>>7725233
>people who work hard to achieve a minor contribution in a minor part of their respecitve field.
I wasn't born to be mediocre.
>>7725233
>>7725234
Well you probably are though. And achieving a minor contribution isn't mediocrity. It's actually the result of a life-long hard work. It's just that any field of science or mathematics has become so big that anything you do won't be of much significance.
>>7725250
>this is what low IQ people actually believe
>>7725234
Clearly you were or you wouldn't be asking this question.
>>7725233
I don't expect that. But this just makes it worse. When really smart people, who were interested in science since they were young, who got the best grades, who went to a top 10 college and who work over 10 hours a day manage to only make minor contributions after years of work what hope do I have as someone average?
>>7725250
"Hard work" is something for brainlets who need to compensate for their lack of talent. A highly gifted person should be able to solve hard problems intuitively very fast.
>>7725260
That's just an example of the fact that as an individual you're not going to have much of an impact in anything (except you're one of the very few rare historical people, and even those couldn't have been what they are completely on their own). You're tiny essentially.
>>7725218
>>7725253
thank you for helping to make this the dumbest board on 4chan
>>7725273
How does one throw his ego away and become one with the masses? Happily working hard being a cog in a larger machine?
>>7725278
Beautiful
>>7725282
I mean you're the one who wants to make 'contributions'. That's already the first step, isn't it?
>>7725279
Actually, it's brainlets like you that ruin this board.
>tfw 169 masserace
>>7725312
are you serious both with the post and with the graph or are you trolling
>>7725356
Are you pretending to be jealous or just salty?
No really, just leave this board if you have an IQ under 140. You're ruining it for the big boys.
>>7725363
Getting trolled softly.
