General Discussion Thread

[the-pi-guy]

I have a good friend from high school. He drives me a little nuts, because he likes to make a lot of assumptions about people and things. Basically every problem has a single solution, and a single cause. 

Oh phone troubles, well it's because of 5G taking up most of the bandwidth. 

It doesn't cross his mind that someone might be too far from a cell tower or that the cell tower is overloaded or that there might be a different source of interference.

He does this about practically everything. I was talking about how I was getting assessed for ADHD. And he immediately is like "the source of your brain fog is because of your diet. You need to do X, Y and Z."

I'm like who said anything about brain fog? That's not what I'm going through. 


This whole thing is kind of a struggle because he views this as a strength, that he always has an answer for everything. 

He doesn't have any self doubt about whether his answer is true or nonsense, he's just like things are simple when you understand them. 

At least I personally struggle with it because I'm basically the opposite. I doubt that I have the right answer, and I generally think if you know more about the problem you tend to find that there are like 15 different possible causes.