Are you a nerd? ((One description I found on the internet is this: a NERD is an individual of vast intelligence and curiosity coupled with a natural knack for academics and discovery. You not only appreciate technology, biology, and all the other ‘ology’s – you know what they mean and how they work, too! While Geeks are busy flooding comic-cons and using the internet while pretending to know how it works, you are busy coding the damn internet and earning your Masters or Doctorate (if you don’t already have it/both). Of course the terms Nerd, Geek, and Dork will always have some overlap, but your test results show an innately intelligent individual with the drive and know-how to put you behind the classic horn-rimmed glasses and pocket protector of a well-educated, deeply intellectual N-E-R-D!
I prefer to say: a nerd is someone who has a vision, a path, and skills and knowledge to follow that path faithfully, and diligently.
You can be an engineer, an artist, an architect, a cook, a restaurateur, an actor, a furniture maker… and be a nerd… Am I misusing the term? Probably…. I mean, more like the hero of the movie Gattaca… where your natural abilities are magnified by your will and your diligence.
Floaters are people who don’t do anything with their lives, or at least they don’t try to. When at work,
do you notice anybody that sits around or acts like they are busy? That’s a Floater. When your girlfriend or wife complains about how no body does anything around the house and carries on doing whatever, sorry honey you’re a Floater.
If the complainers would actually stand up and put some effort into what they are doing and try to change how they are living, then they might actually spread their wings and take flight.
Hate me? Thank you. I take it as a compliment.))
In life you are either a nerd or you are a floater.
The two most important characteristics of a nerd is that they know what is most important to them, and that they love it.
I always wanted to be Renaissance man, because for me, choosing, committing was the hardest. I even picked architecture because I had the illusion that architects need to know everything. And that may be true, that they need to know everything, but it is also true, that they don’t.
And especially they don’t use words to express, and I wanted to.
So I suffered through five years of university and 17 years of working as an architect… until I chose and committed to a profession that needed my words…
When you know what is important to you, then it is easier to organize a life around it. Then your life becomes a workshop.
What prevents a lot of people from living a life worth living is that they don’t choose their priorities, they are chosen for them.
By other people.
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