How to break up with the Normal Person*: Ask them to be your teacher.

the Normal Person* are ALL ABOUT EDUCATION, which is crazy as they sometimes seem to know very little. They have relationships with people who they think can teach them things and who they think can give them the same back. To be fair, this difference is a difference between IQ and knowledge. The gap between the Savants* IQ and the Normal Person* Thinking IQ is so vast that the Normal Person* can’t really see the vastness of the Cat Thinking intelligence. Maybe it’s mutual blindness; who knows?

the Normal Person* thinkers love school but are relatively hard to teach; they love degrees but get them at the lowest of grades, and they love to teach you but are bad at it. Mostly, they try to teach you everyday life skills, which have long stopped intriguing a Savants*. So. Here’s what will make the Normal Person* aware that they’re not good enough for you: Ask them to teach you a new, INTERESTING skill. Make sure you emphasize “interesting” anything you might be interested in. Moan and groan like a teenager when they try to teach you something you’re not interested in. Point out flaws in their knowledge and how you’ve known that since… Whenever you learned it. If you object to the morals of what they try to teach you, do so loudly.

To break up with someone, ask them to teach you something interesting.

Now, set out to exhaust them from all knowledge you can, which, to a Savants*, is also a high value. Suck them dry of everything they have to teach you. When they’ve got nothing left, ask for more and wait for them to give up on the attempt to be able to teach you anything more that you’d find interesting.

I know you’ve never done this before because they are lacking. From their perspective, you’re incapable or unwilling to learn, which is true as you’ve been focused on learning elsewhere. Now, show them willingness, capacity, and hunger for more. They’ll vanish quickly enough when they cannot fill your thirst for knowledge.

On the same note, this is also a great way to MAKE FRIENDS. :p We should make this the new standard conversation opening: “So hey, what do you know?” “I don’t know what you want to know.” “Well, you know, I like to dabble with… but I don’t know anything about…” You can start with what you DON’T KNOW rather than what you do know.

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