What / How on human limitations ...

[futureperfect5]

Tell us what you are doing to move beyond your limitations?
How do you perceive human limitations?

So, come out ...
what is it?

[Ool]

Tell us what you are doing to move beyond your limitations?
How do you perceive human limitations?

So, come out ...
what is it?

Well, it’s a bit hard trying to push my own limitations if other people are even more limited than I am. Yes, there are theoretical ways to grow, but if you’re already #1 then you can’t get any firster, so it seems a bit pointless.

It’s lonely at the top. An A student has really no one to measure themselves by, and the only way to go that seems to make any difference is down. That’s why they can be so grumpy and unsatisfied with their elite position.

(That’s also why I’m not buying the benevolent and caring God meme, BTW. It was quite clearly invented by people who were never God themselves, and who have therefore no idea what they are talking about when imagining what the character of such a being would be like…)

So the strategy is actually to sit and to wait and to preach my wisdom in the hope that eventually someone will catch up with me and offer me a challenge and become a role model to aspire to, or at least a peer to bond with.

Yes, I am aware that theoretically it is possible to be orders of magnitude more magnificent than I am today, but as long as that possibility is merely a theoretical one it isn’t a particularly desirable state.

You see, because of my superior intelligence I am so very far removed from other people’s affairs as it is. By improving myself I would only distance myself even further from the rest of humanity, and that might prove to be counterproductive, because even being the genius that I am, there are only so many things that I can do on my ADHD-suffering own, without outside help, mediocre in nature though it may be…


As for what human limitations are in detail—my own and others’—that merits a post of its own, which I may or may not compose later on…

[Vertigo]

I don't think anything limits humans, we just need time and have to put an effort into what we want. Ok so I guess time would be the only limit, but it's not a show stopper by any means.

[futureperfect5]

I have no fear of reaching or exceeding my potential -- each would inspire innovations and creativity. As a child, I was trained not to gauge myself from external sources. I think that you speak only of immediate surroundings?

What do you think of the theory of multiple intelligences?

"You see, because of my superior intelligence I am so very far removed from other people’s affairs as it is. By improving myself I would only distance myself even further from the rest of humanity, and that might prove to be counterproductive, because even being the genius that I am, there are only so many things that I can do on my ADHD-suffering own, without outside help, mediocre in nature though it may be…"

[PRBori]

I don't believe in limitations... limitations are only those impose by us but the truth is that there are no limitations because deep inside of us there is always an answer to almost everything...

When I feel limited is not because I can't achieve it, but because I lack the will power to move forward. That said is only I as a person who put limits to myself, but in reality there are no limits to what I could do if I really wanted to do it.

[Southpaw]

The limitations of humans are our vices.

[Brutananadilewski]

We're extremely limited. Our "reality" is entirely an arbitrary construction which prevents us from truly experiencing existence. Space and time themselves are constructs of our own minds, but if we could surpass having those restrictions upon our thought processes, who knows what we could explore. Logic and rationality again are completely arbitrary constructs unique to our species. Even things like "purpose" and "meaning" are arbitrary human constructs that yet again limit our experience and our exploration of the universe. The stupid thing is that there is no answer for the questions that arise from the recognition as all these things as being human constructs, since we are still bound by them. So in that sense, we're so very limited. Our minds have massive potential, and yet they're bound within the confines of a box that's necessary for the survival of our current physical state.

[zoophilia]

I don't think anything limits humans, we just need time and have to put an effort into what we want. Ok so I guess time would be the only limit, but it's not a show stopper by any means.

The problem with this view in my opinion is that it removes all impetus to overcome those limitations within the alloted time.

[Doppelbock]

It's all about critical thinking. A lack of critical thinking skills is the big limitation to all things human.

[Ool]

It's all about critical thinking. A lack of critical thinking skills is the big limitation to all things human.

Well, if you just disect and disect your experiences and ideas but never construct then your limitation might be analysis paralysis…

[cal]

Well, if you just disect and disect your experiences and ideas but never construct then your limitation might be analysis paralysis…

Adding to what Ool said - from a favourite site of mine about such things:

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