People who pay attention
Although apparently packed with losers Mensa does have one charming quality according to Scott Adam’s
Mensa meetings are the strangest experience. No one ever has to explain anything twice. That’s a bigger deal than you might think. Your typical day is full of moments where you ask for a cup of coffee and someone hands you a bag of nails. You don’t realize how much time you spend re-explaining things until you no longer need to. Mensa is very cool that way.
It would be great to have people pay attention to you the first time. I would say I spend a very large part of my day not only repeating myself, but reciting from memory the contents of emails I had sent, and recounting the detail in voicemail that I left for people.
November 14th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Ive long maintained that the difference between honors students and regular students is not so much rooted in some intelligence gap, but the fact that they actually pay attention, listen, and do what they are supposed to do. As a teacher, I can assure you that just about nothing is more frustrating than having to repeat every god damn thing at least twice, and then still having a couple students who cant remember it.
November 17th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
The same goes for husbands! It would be awesome if wives didn’t have to repeat a request….