“As fast as you can. As fast as I can? As fast as you can!” – The Incredibles

You think being smarter is about being faster on the outside.

It’s more about being faster on the inside.

I can feel you.

There’s nothing going on inside of you. Just a feeling. A reflection of the outside world. On the inside, it’s empty. Nothing is there for me to feel.

You try to look faster by making things happen quicker in the outside world, and that’s why you only get things done, without feeling any difference in terms of your ability. It’s all labor, and it never ends. Brushing your teeth is as hard as studying physics. Everything is just spending energy, because nothing exists except in the outside world. Nothing happens except in your external world. You just get rewarded. You are just getting happier. Nothing special takes place inside your mind no matter what you do, because you’re focusing on the external results you’re doing everything with the least amount of concentration possible, in order to remain efficient. And in exchange for this, you give up being alive.

You will never experience what it really means to be smarter without attempting to be faster on the inside, in terms of processing speed for example, with disregard to the complexity of the activity that you’re currently engaged in doing at the moment. You can’t, and you will never understand what it tastes like to be intelligent. No amount of reward could bypass that, even though you cannot function without ample excessive amount of reward compared to the average.