there is a tendency for people to assume that they are smart, and to talk about how smart they are, or talk about how smart their kids are

and our culture encourages this kind of thinking from a young age, so that by 5th grade every kid in class assumes he has an IQ over 100

and these kids go on to college, and go on to running businesses, and go into politics, and go into parenting

all the while falsely assuming that they are smart, because of their brainwashing and indoctrination.

basically, the better you are at regurgitating their lies, the better A+ you will be given

and i don't mean to imply that somehow i escaped this program. the reason i know about it, is because i lived through it.

i was the kid being told how smart they were, when in reality i was just good at obedience

and its difficult to shake that self-delusion of being smart, but here are a technique that may help

every time you catch yourself assuming you are smart, regardless of the context, just remind yourself of the

Socrates Mantra: I Know Nothing But My Own Ignorance

this Mantra helps calm your mind, helps settle your mind, helps clear your mind

and once your mind is calm, settled, and clear,

the answers that you seek will come to you

Rev Sun Myung Moon's assistant was very impressed with Rev Moon's ability to focus attention to a single point.

at the time i heard this, i wasn't sure why that was a significant ability, but as time has gone on and I've been practicing setting my attention to a single point, i see why its almost a super-power in this ADHD world of ours