Tired of Clickbait? Solution Found!

Nishant Boddupalli
3 min readAug 1, 2020

I am not stupid, but I am pretty close to stupid. You may have met people like me. Midway through a conversation, my mind is off in another dimension thinking: “I am smart..so smart, because of what I just said. I think Einstein wasn’t as smart as me. I am going to make it far -”, and when you ask me something, I mumble a few words that make no sense. And then reality hits me, and my ego feels like ground up turkey.

I did exactly this one night, last year. But I still remember the conversation. A stranger and I were talking about Einstein and his super capable brain (I have an ego the size of the Eiffel Tower so I think I can become like Einstein through practice — if not in intellect, at least, by growing an epic mustache and losing hair. I’m already halfway done with losing my hair so I have a head start. Quite literally). The stranger I was talking to had a theory to explain Einstein’s genius. It made so much sense: Einstein probably kept reading all the patent applications when he worked at the patent office. If people are anything like me, so many trash patents must have been submitted. Mr. Albert probably went through so much painful bullshit that when he actually found something reasonable, he definitely read the living fuck out of it. I’ll bet that is what made him smart — smarter than he was, at least. (Apparently he was a genius long before that, though, as wikipedia reveals, but let me pretend like I’m right).

Nobody likes pain, in life (except when we put gimp suits on, am I right?!…No? Only me, I suppose. Oh well). Anyway, if I had a nickel for every time I heard someone give a speech saying “failures are how we learn”, I would have a bunch of nickels (having blown all my wealth on weed and cryptocurrency ponzi schemes). My point is that many people keep saying that failures are how we learn. We know it to be true as well. Painful experiences teach us a lot (in my case, painful experiences every morning taught me that I needed to eat more fibre). And we rarely forget lessons learned through these painful experiences (to this day, I down a whole bag of spinach every night). When we struggle with problems, we are so hungry to escape, our senses are heightened, and we experience life differently. We enjoy the time spent not struggling, and we learn so much during that time.

In conclusion, I want to reiterate my point: I just wasted your time. The only information you got is that I am into BDSM, and often suffer from constipation. Hopefully this experience hurt you enough to look for meaningful articles and read the living fuck out of them, when you do find some. You are welcome.

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