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Since quickly and effortlessly doing things that other people find hard is cool. A cool lifestyle is evolutionarily novel, because in tribal, traditional life. No one is socially isolated enough to pull off secretly achieving mastery of a hobby by practicing in complete isolation. Only to come back into society and effortlessly display one's masterful skill, to the complete awe of others, whom did not see the hours of practice, nor had any reason to believe the person was practicing anything, because out of sight, out of mind. | Since quickly and effortlessly doing things that other people find hard is cool. A cool lifestyle is evolutionarily novel, because in tribal, traditional life. No one is socially isolated enough to pull off secretly achieving mastery of a hobby by practicing in complete isolation. Only to come back into society and effortlessly display one's masterful skill, to the complete awe of others, whom did not see the hours of practice, nor had any reason to believe the person was practicing anything, because out of sight, out of mind. | ||
For example, a guy has no reputation at all for dancing, has never tried to. So over summer break from school, the guy spends as many hours per day possible learning to dance masterfully, then at the school dance, the man starts busting out immaculate moves left and right, to everyone's awe and surprise. "Wow what talent!" However simply behaving interesting and impressively, is not enough to be cool. One must | For example, a guy has no reputation at all for dancing, has never tried to. So over summer break from school, the guy spends as many hours per day possible learning to dance masterfully, then at the school dance, the man starts busting out immaculate moves left and right, to everyone's awe and surprise. "Wow what talent!" However simply behaving interesting and impressively, is not enough to be cool. One must ''also'' be fashionable, and dangerous. The nerd in the video is on the way to becoming cool but not quite their yet. | ||
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