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How to be flawlessly cunning about a particular subject so I can instantly handle any possible questions, arguments, strawmans about it? Do I just read as many books as I can concerning that subject?

>> No.14312826

It's like anything else, there's always going to be someone more versed in a subject than you are.

And then there's the whole playing chess with a pigeon situation you will run into a lot.

If your goal is to BTFO people about a certain subject, don't bother.

>> No.14312849

>>14312816
Is there any point of reading books if someone looks like OP's pic?

>> No.14312886

>>14312849
i look like him and i read

>> No.14312920

>>14312886
lol no you don't

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14312927

Excellent thread, froyposter

>> No.14312932

>>14312826
>If your goal is to BTFO people about a certain subject, don't bother.
This. You have to love something to live it, and you need to live it to master it.
Learning is for the dumb, experience trumps all.

>> No.14313016

>>14312920
I like how your answer applies to both of this claims

>> No.14313025

>>14312932
>you need to live it
what do you mean exactly

>> No.14313037

>>14313016
I don't but I do. Not that much as I would like tho haha.

>> No.14313068

>>14312826
>If your goal is to BTFO people about a certain subject, don't bother.

Have to agree with this. If your goal is just to never have egg on your face or never be in a situation where you have to say that you just don't know, you can forget all about it. People like that get tripped up all the time and then turn into huge babies because they can't stand the hit to their ego.

Become knowledgeable in something in order to do so me good. Don't become knowledgeable just to peacock and be an all-around arrogant shit nobody likes.

>> No.14313101

>>14313025
I mean that hands-on application is the the only way to really own something categorically.

>> No.14313258

>>14312849
Yes. The value of reading is not diminished by one's appearance. Foolish question.

>> No.14313263

>>14312886
based

>> No.14313476

>>14313101
not all subject has that scope.

>> No.14313498

>>14312816
This guys looks like he just discovered the industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

>> No.14313504

>>14312849
Yes because you spend most of your life not looking like that.

>> No.14313629

charm/wit >> truth/knowledge

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>>14312816
keeping learning until you eventually look like this. then you are ready

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>>14313498

>> No.14313747

>>14312816
If you need to ask you'll never make it.

>> No.14313767

>>14313504
most cope post on the board right now

>> No.14313777

>>14313747
This

>> No.14313808

>>14313767
One day you'll realise it isn't cope at all, it's the exact opposite of cope. Ageing is the most horrible thing you can imagine. Enjoy being young while it lasts, I earnestly mean this, do everything you can to enjoy it. It's gone so fast.

>> No.14313869

>>14312816
Literally gonna kill myself because I'll never look like that.

>> No.14314006

>>14313808
even if it's true, you'll be well into late 40s

>> No.14314011

>>14313629
how to have charm/wit

>> No.14314258

>>14312816
damn

>> No.14314881

>damn I wish I looked like that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGEnXDijMEs
Now you don't.