And I might add: They’re PROs at justifying the inaction. Absolute pros! Prevention? Nah just call the desperate move prevention and you’re all good. Why bother… lol I somehow very delusionally have hope in Britain, I need it to be well. I’d like to stay and I worship the floor I touch.

Write this post because it’s fun, it’s quite funny, but it’s also so accurate. Um, the CEO of Nvidia, um, said a couple of things that I don’t necessarily agree with, like, but hey, because obviously to look at what makes one smart, one has to look at what smartness is. And he says that there’s a very lot of smart people in UK. I personally would say there’s a lot of capacity or opportunity for smartness. I believe that a lot of people just have consumed the system so much that they sound smart because that’s what the system stands for. You go to school, you can, if you can regurgitate everything that you studied, you’re smart. But that’s not smartness. That’s literally regurgitation. And be able to think from that regurgitation is still regurgitation because they’re pulling the same information from the same sources that have created the same systems that don’t actually work. So, and he said something very accurate. And he was like, if there’s a million ways, a million solutions, the British people will find the one reason not to. And they overthink. And this is him by looking at it from the outside in. But still there will be in denial because no matter how many times you say, you tell them, if you don’t sweet them up enough, they won’t buy it. They simply won’t buy it. Why? Because they don’t actually believe in themselves. They’re so self-conscious. That’s why they drink so much. Every excuse is good to drink because in drinking, then they get a little bit of alcohol confidence or cocaine or they love their cocaine. And the CEO also said that there’s a great culture. I don’t know what culture he sees. I don’t, that part was quite confusing to hear. But outside of that

NVIDIA’s CEO Has Just Diagnosed Britain. And I Am Laughing! 😂

A Million Ways to Succeed, and the British Will Find the One Reason Not To.

Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, recently made some observations about Britain, and I have to say, I was laughing because some of what he said was so painfully accurate. 😂

Now, I don’t agree with everything he said. For example, he spoke about Britain having incredibly smart people.

I would personally say Britain has an incredible capacity and opportunity for smartness. But whether that capacity is actually being exercised is an entirely different conversation.

Because first, we need to establish what smartness actually is.

In a society where intelligence is largely measured by how successfully you can consume, retain and regurgitate information from an educational system, I question how much of what we call intelligence is actually independent cognition.

You go to school. You study what you’re given. You memorise it. You repeat it. You get rewarded. Congratulations, you’re smart!

And even when you learn to think critically using that information, how much of your thinking is still confined to the knowledge, assumptions and frameworks of the very systems that educated you?

You can become exceptionally intelligent at explaining a system that doesn’t work, without ever developing the cognition to create one that does.

That’s my distinction between having knowledge and exercising intelligence.

But then Jensen said something absolutely hilarious.

He observed that if Britain had a million ways to win, the British would somehow find the one reason not to do it.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! 😂

And he said they overthink things!

Now, what makes this particularly funny is that this man is looking at Britain from the outside in. Imagine what those of us observing these patterns from the inside have been seeing!

And even funnier? You can tell people this a thousand times, but unless you sweeten the delivery enough, they won’t buy it.

You have to package the truth in a lovely little box, decorate it with compliments, reassure everyone that they’re absolutely wonderful, and THEN, perhaps, they’ll consider opening the box.

Otherwise? Denial.

Which brings me to something I find particularly interesting about British social culture.

For a society that places so much emphasis on appearing confident, there seems to be an extraordinary amount of self-consciousness beneath the performance.

And the drinking culture! Oh, the drinking culture. 😂

Every occasion seems to be an occasion to drink. Happy? Drink. Sad? Drink. Friday? Drink. Wednesday? Why not drink? Need confidence to speak to somebody? A few drinks should sort that out!

And for some, cocaine joins the party.

Of course, not everyone participates in these habits. But the social normalisation of chemically assisted confidence is something I find fascinating.

Because what does it tell us about a culture when people can become more expressive, more daring, more sociable and more confident once their inhibitions have been chemically reduced?

How much of that confidence was already within them, but buried beneath their conditioning?

And that takes me straight back to Jensen’s observations.

You have the capacity. You have the opportunities. You have the knowledge. You have the infrastructure. Yet somehow, the greatest obstacle becomes the mind’s relationship with possibility.

A million possibilities, and the focus goes straight to the one reason it cannot work.

But here’s where Jensen confused me again.

He also said Britain has a great culture.

I genuinely had to wonder which part of the culture he was referring to. 😂

Because intellectual and historical achievements? Absolutely, there are plenty to recognise.

But a culture should also be examined through what it produces in the people living within it, how those people relate to themselves, how they relate to one another, how they respond to difference, and how much freedom they actually exercise in their cognition.

Having great institutions doesn’t automatically mean having a great relationship with one’s own humanity.

And having the capacity for greatness is not the same thing as cultivating the conditions that allow greatness to emerge.

That is the part I find most interesting.

Britain doesn’t necessarily lack the ability to do extraordinary things. I question whether its inherited conditioning allows people to recognise and exercise that ability independently of the systems that taught them what success, intelligence and legitimacy are supposed to look like.

And perhaps that’s why someone can present a million solutions and still encounter a million explanations for why things must remain exactly as they are.

Jensen is telling Britain to believe in itself.

I’m asking something slightly different:

How can you truly believe in yourself if you’ve spent so much of your life being taught to believe in the system’s definition of who you should be?

Now THAT is a conversation worth having.

Preferably sober. 😂

— SNW | SHS – Human First