Nerds
Your nerd?s insatiable quest for information and The High has tweaked his brain in an interesting way. For any given piece of incoming information, your nerd is making a lightning fast assessment: relevant or not relevant? Relevance means that the incoming information fits into the system of things your nerd currently cares about. Expect active involvement from your nerd when you trip the relevance flag. If you trip the irrelevance flag, look for verbal punctuation announcing his judgment of irrelevance. It?s the word your nerd says when he?s not listening and it?s always the same. My word is ?Cool?, and when you hear ?Cool?, I?m not listening.
Information that your nerd is exposed to when the irrelevance flag is waving is forgotten almost immediately. I mean it. Next time you hear ?Cool?, I want you to ask, ?What?d I just say?? That awkward grin on your nerd?s face is the first step in getting him to acknowledge that he?s the problem in this particular conversation.
Your nerd might come off as not liking people. Small talk. Those first awkward five minutes when two people are forced to interact. Small talk is the bane of the nerd?s existence because small talk is a combination of aspects of the world that your nerd hates. When your nerd is staring at a stranger, all he?s thinking is, ?I have no system for understanding this messy person in front of me?. This is where the shy comes from. This is why nerds hate presenting to crowds.
- Via Rands In Repose.
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