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Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess
I get in this argument all of the time...
I can literally recite to you the first 5 picks of every NBA draft for the past 20 years...I can name almost every college an NBA player went to and like 70% of NFL players...
it's useless knowledge in something that REALLY interests me (sports)...I'm good at remembering baseball stats as well
why is this useful information any less important than knowing which month has the least amount of daylight?
as soon as someone can give me a good answer then I'll go back and take elementary level classes so I can learn information that I don't even care or need to know just like I did when I was a kid and I obsessed over sports and now am an Encyclopedia of sports knowledge.
seriously
why is knowing the Presidents more important than knowing what year Shaq went 1st overall?
riddle me that
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Well I think in the end what is important in life is a personal thing. "Book" knowledge can be important at times if you are trying to work within the system. Certain "intellectual" skills do help build your abilities for other things. You mentioned you are good at math. Some of your thinking skills even outside of math were developed in part because of the ways you learned how to process math.
I cared/care about history, math, science, reading ect. I value that and take pride in it. How well I measure up in each category certainly depends on my company at the time. Still, I don't judge others based off of it. Plenty of my friends don't give a **** about any of that. Each person can decide on their own what is important in this world.