You are offered a Brain Pill. If you swallow this pill, you will become 10% more intelligent than you currently are; you will be more adept at reading comprehension, logic, and critical thinking. However, to all other people you know (and to future people you meet), you will seem 20% less intelligent. In other words, you will immediately become smarter, but the rest of the world will perceive you as dumber (and there is no way you can ever alter the universality of that perception.)
Do you take this pill?
This came from a section of Chuck Klosterman’s Hypertheticals. Sometimes we forget that challenging the brain is just as important as challenging the body… so, take a time-out from your to-do list and think about it. How would you choose in this hypothetical situation?
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