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{{a|maxim|[[File:wrongroom.png|450px|center|It’s not you. It’s me.]]}}{{shitmaxim|If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room}} | {{a|maxim|[[File:wrongroom.png|450px|center|Thumb|It’s not you. It’s me.]]}}We are indebted to Marissa Mayer for this golden nugget of wisdom: {{shitmaxim|If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room}} | ||
At first blush | At first blush it seems rather appealing. Only when you reflect on the downward spiral into oblivion it incites, does its true horror becomes plain. If — as it may, for it does explain a few things — this reveals a true fact about the world, it is a distressing one. No one emerges with much hope, or credit: | ||
Firstly, and obviously, | Firstly, and obviously, it is quite bad news for clever people, who must as a result continually absent themselves from rooms they were probably enjoying being in. But it is hardly better for the great, face-slapping mediocrity, for it will make our lives harder too. Is it any wonder that we are all so confused? ''At least'' one person in every room is in the wrong place. | ||
''At least''; most likely it is more: Nobel laureates have no monopoly on room dysphoria. To the contrary, the stupider you are, the more likely you are to be in the wrong room. | |||
This news will also be disappointing for teachers, implying as it does that ''they are all constantly in the wrong room'': either by being ''too'' smart — per [[Mayer’s Law]] — or not being smart ''enough'', it being a founding proposition that one should not educate people who are already cleverer than you are. | This news will also be disappointing for teachers, implying as it does that ''they are all constantly in the wrong room'': either by being ''too'' smart — per [[Mayer’s Law]] — or not being smart ''enough'', it being a founding proposition that one should not educate people who are already cleverer than you are. | ||