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It doesn't feel very good to be outsmarted. But at at the same time, it's worth having a chance to be the one doing the outsmarting. All we can really do is hedge our bets and try to be the outsmarter more often than the outsmarted. Of course it's often impossible to tell when you've been outsmarted, so maybe we're all just a bunch of fumbling rubes. For some brilliance in the form of bold shenanigans, here are some mad lads who made the world their big briny oyster.

It doesn't take a whole lot of effort to not be a bragging brain lord. It doesn't even take that much humility. All it takes is the ability to step back for a single second and realize that crazy self-involvement isn't a super good look. There's nothing wrong with being smart, but mistakenly believing you're a genius and polluting people's lives with your cringeworthy bragging doesn't even make you look smart. It makes you look like a narcissist.

It could be because they're insecure. It could be because they just don't care. For whatever reason, social media is absolutely riddled with people trying to prove their own massive IQs and bustling brains. Mostly it comes off as a bunch of unnecessary hairsplitting, ridiculous boasts and ruined jokes. That's the way of the land for cringey brain lords trying way too hard to seem intelligent. It's hard to ignore those mistaken brain lords.

This quick and relatable Tumblr thread shines light on the fact that for whatever strange reason Comic Sans helps the words flow onto that blank page like none other. Definitely worth a shot if you haven't tried it out, and you're looking to meet a word count requirement! 

There's nothing wrong with being smart. There's something a little wrong with thinking you're a genius just because you once sat through a Youtube doc on quantum mechanics. And there's definitely a lot wrong with being a huge ass to people who are just trying to be decent to each other online. Here we have absurd people who think they're geniuses, coming around to brag about their supposed intellect. It gets so bad it's like some think they have super powers.

With the power to post about yourself on the internet comes the responsibility to not spend your time putting people down and pretending to be a brain-lord. The internet is full of absurd people who think they're total geniuses just because they were an early reader. Being able to sit through a Youtube lecture on quantum physics doesn't make you a genius, but it might make ridiculous individuals believe they're geniuses.

If there's one thing no one could have anticipated about social media, it would be the sheer volume of individuals who think they're geniuses using it as a place to stroke their own egos. They're here to lie about cool things they said, ruin jokes they didn't get, and condescendingly use big words that they just learned. Nobody's safe in a world of ridiculous individuals who believe they're geniuses.

Maybe you didn't get enough sleep or maybe you were just on autopilot. There are a lot of reasons to make extremely simple, stupid mistakes that make you look like a complete idiot to strangers. It can even happen when you literally forget what you are holding in each hand and end up throwing a cup of hot coffee on your bed.

It's probably happened to you. You're holding two things with incredibly different purposes. Maybe it's a phone and a banana. You're on autopilot and prone to brain farts so you're not thinking. You take a bite and realize "oh crap I just bit my phone." Then you think that's funny and want to tell someone so you take your banana off its charger to text your friend. For some more mistakes here are some classic facepalm moments of dumbness.

Alexis Hockley hooked it up with a quick and informative thread on what's potentially taking place in our brains right now, as result of the strange shift in external circumstances. Now more than ever is a time to spread that love and kindness. 

When someone believes their own BS a little too hard, their ego starts to spiral out of control and before you know it, this ridiculous individual believes they're a genius. Maybe they're still riding a developmental achievement like being an "early reader" or they just took a bogus online test that told them their IQ is a thousand. Either way the internet is swimming with absurd individuals who believe they're geniuses and they're here to ruin jokes and brag about themselves.

Positive psychology-certified coach Alexis Rockley hooked it up with a helpful, informative Twitter thread that explains the trippy rollercoaster many of our brains are on right now, amidst these strange times. 

Sometimes the brain clocks out for the day. Yes, these folks experienced some hilarious autopilot moments. You know, when you're in one environment, maybe at work, but some part of your brain thinks that you're elsewhere. Sometimes this comes about through sleep deprivation, while other times, it seems to be a totally random misfiring of neurons. Naturally, the resulting moments make for hilarious fails. 

Kyle happened upon quite the startling discovery, when he realized that not everyone has an internal dialogue process. Some folks in fact have non-verbal thoughts, and need to consciously verbalize them. Yes, some folks need to talk out loud at the mirror to have a pep talk with themselves. Trippy, for some. Kyle's day was apparently all shook up, and the world as he saw it, had changed. 

This guy's seemingly innocent discovery about how our brains work when it comes to the "internal monologue" process ended up inspiring quite the ripple effect. People were shook. To learn that other people in the world are able to have an internal narrative, while others aren't, was too much for some folks to fathom.