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Everyone has the potential to be a rocket scientist if they work really hard towards it and are motivated enough. But for some people, it requires less effort to understand the more complicated things and others seem to struggle even after having it explained to them several times. Though sometimes you understand how it works and can explain it yourself, but you just don’t comprehend how that makes sense.

It makes the wheels in our brains start turning but doesn’t create a result. People on Reddit shared the things their brains can’t compute when CodeBlackGoonit asked “What's something you still don't understand even after many different people explain it to you?”

Are there any other things that are a mystery to you even after someone laid it out for you? Maybe you never understood a certain concept but then it all clicked? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.

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Person Asked “What’s Something You Still Don’t Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed (2) Why women are letting men who claim they cannot control their urges make decisions concerning our bodies. Not their business. And if they have so little self control that a child can "tempt" them, why are they in charge?

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Very true. They shouldn't be anywhere near children if that's the case. Any man who claims not to be able to control his urges is pathetic and needs to grow up.

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Well, maybe claiming that everyone can become a rocket scientist and work for NASA if they put their mind to it is a bit optimistic as we found out when we contacted Professor Robin Morris. He is a clinical-academic neuropsychologist at the IoPPN and used to teach neuropsychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience of King’s College London.

Professor Morris told Bored Panda, “Sadly, I think there are limitations to how far effort can help, but the limitations should not be overestimated.”

You shouldn’t be discouraged as he explained that there is a positive side to this, “One of the successes of the 20th Century has been to recognise that all people have strengths and weaknesses and so individuals can be helped to maximise their capabilities, if properly understood.”

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It is a simple way to make the rich even richer, to rob the poor, and then kill off the poor when they are of no more use.

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Person Asked “What’s Something You Still Don’t Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed (8) How we keep voting for the same duplicitous corrupt as*hats that rule our countries and somehow, magically, expect things to be different?

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If voting actually changed anything, it would be abolished

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These strengths and weaknesses depend both on genetics and on the circ*mstances in which people grow up and what opportunities are open to them. You may have noticed that some people are naturally inclined to humanitarian sciences and will understand what the author wanted to say with his poem but they will struggle with mathematical equations or vice versa.

Sometimes people think that the humanitarian is less intelligent because they “might rely more on intuitive thought - deep thinking that cannot be rationalised because we do not know the underlying brain or mind processes but may be just as complex as rationale thought. A scientist might think they are more capable than a person in humanities because they can rationalise their thought processes and this leads to hubris.”

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Person Asked “What’s Something You Still Don’t Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed (11) Antisemitism, I get that prejudice is always illogical but I don't even know where to begin understand it

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There’s nothing to “explain”. There’s nothing to “understand”. Antisemitism, like any type of racism, is illogical, blindly selfish and stupid, and inherently awful.

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Just squish it in the cabinet

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But whatever side you are on, you may tune and improve those abilities if you are motivated enough. The way people can make their strengths work for them is by “putting effort in the right place and finding ways around obstacles for understanding. In the past a person with dyslexia might be told they were stupid by their teachers (this happened to my cousin, who ended up doing genetics research at Cambridge University). Now we analyse their disability, recognise it, and find ways to maximise their capabilities and opportunties.”

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I think the author means 'baseball"

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NFT’s

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It's simply a way to separate people from their money.

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I found a use for NFTs recently. Got send a unsolicited d**k pic? Turn into NFT and send the link to said d***s owner. You’re welcome.

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Putting effort into studying a difficult concept or theory not only brings us closer to understanding it but it also “over time creates levels of expertise which increase the chance of understanding more complex things specifically. This creates the intellectual structures that support understanding. An experienced doctor will reach the diagnosis more rapidly and intuitively even with a complicated patient because they have engaged in similar thought patterns for many years.”

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All currency values are make believe to a large extent.

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Nothing to “understand” or “explain” here either. It’s really simple - religion is a tool used to control groups of people and get them to act/do what the religious elite want them to do. Humans fear things like death and the unknown, and they are grateful to be fed reassuring answers like “you’ll go to Heaven as long as you follow these rules!” It’s easy and then they no longer have to think for themselves. And, of course, in the meantime, the religious leaders get them to donate money.

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Besides, if you don’t understand a concept, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you are stupid. Professor Morris believes that it depends.

The Professor paints us a picture, “I tend to think about human ability as a bit like one of those recording consoles, with huge numbers of buttons and faders. These represent the miriad of different abilities each person has, and the faders determine the level.”

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I’m genuinely dyscalculic. If I try to look at a number that is more than three digits long, it gets all scrambled up. I’m terrible at math in general, too, even simple math. I’ll still count on my fingers to add. I loathe math XD

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Person Asked “What’s Something You Still Don’t Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed (32) How American Football works and why it's entertaining. I get that the burgers/hot dogs and the sexy cheerleaders are entertaining but I don't get why the game itself is fun to watch.

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I think the "game" is the break between all the adverts and half time shows, and beverages.

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So everyone has a different mix of the faders as they are put in different positions. The smarter people have more of them turned up. That has an influence on how they understand things because “the smarter person has greater overall capability to understand things generally.”

Certain people seem to have them all up and they are incredible at memorizing and grasping things but “Other people have a particular 'fader profile' and might have gaps in their understanding. For example, we know that there are people who are very intelligent at solving problems but struggle with emotional intelligence. They solve mind blowing problems but just do not get it when dealing with someone's feelings. Conversely some people are not very good at problem solving but seem to have an intuitive understanding of other people.”

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Person Asked “What’s Something You Still Don’t Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed (35) People who don't make a lot who blow all of their money on stupid things that make it look like they have money, rather than actually getting themselves ahead.

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I don't know about the getting ahead part but don't spend on things to impress OTHER people. If you buy things to make your life easier or things you enjoy go ahead! There is nothing wrong with that. Just don't go into mountains of debt doing it. I've always wanted a gaming console to enjoy some games but always had spending anxiety. I finally got one, not the newest, used but it works great for like 50% the cost. It accomplished what I wanted but within budget.

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Person Asked “What’s Something You Still Don’t Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed (38) Money only has value because we agree it does, so why can't we just make inflation not happen?

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Money....90% of my problems can be solved with money....which is frigging depressing.

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This leads to the conclusion that you shouldn’t be too disappointed when you can’t understand a particular concept because it means that you might excel in a different field and that one thing is just a gap.

What knowledge or understanding would you like to gain but it seems too difficult for you? Have you ever met a very smart person who could understand almost everything but just not one particular thing? Tell us about it in the comments.

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Person Asked “What’s Something You Still Don’t Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed (41) How a dvd works. Or how a record player works, for that matter. Like how does it transfer the little grooves to make… sound and light? Black magic.

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In simplest terms...all music is just bumps...bumps that end up moving air. A CD has bumps that change the lasers path to the sensor. The computer turns those bumps(0 and 1s) into bumps in voltage. Your speakers then turn the voltage bumps into physical bumps of the air. The air bumps your ear drum. Your brain turns it into music. A record does the same. Only its physical bumps in the grooves. They are tiny bumps. The needle follows the bumps and turns it into voltage bumps. Or in oldddd phono graphs it bumps air and the big horn amplifies those bumps. Essentially all audio formats are different types of bumps. It all ends with a speaker bumping the air.

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It’s just a graph of rich people mood swings.

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"I want to ride my KrebcycleI want to ride it where I like."

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What 3 sea shells?

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Person Asked “What’s Something You Still Don’t Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed (57) How the state can tax our tax return. I will never understand this.

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Kind of simple. Your refund is money you overpaid. It is still income; you just haven't had access to it.

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Monopoly

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It was supoosed to be an educational tool about how capitalism and private property ownership funnel wealth into the hands of a wealthy few, at the expense of the working class.

Then a corporation copied it, rebranded that as a good thing and sold it as entertainment.

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To be fair it is really fun

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How bitcoin works.

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According to Sam Bankman-Fried, Bitcoin only works if you live in the Bahamas and spend other people's money.

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Fourth dimension

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Think about describing something's location. 3d world is X, Y, and Z. So you could say "my keys are on the table, 10 ft in from the front door, 5 ft to the left, and 3ft off the ground."

But you go look, and they're not there. So, add a 4th dimension to your description, when were they there? Things move about in space over a period of time; time is that fourth dimension.

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Time is a temporal dimension. There is a fourth spatial dimension which our brains aren’t evolved to visualize yet

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My cats understand string theory. The theory is: whenever they see anything stringlike, they pounce.

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The question is, digital camera or film camera? Two different ways.

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The last vaccine I got, I spent 3 days stuck to my refrigerator.

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How literary anybody thinks/thought crypto was going to be a good investment

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Those people who bought it cheap and sold it for a profit will probably be reflecting on what a terrible idea it was from their mansions overlooking their fleet of sports cars. But yeah, stupid.

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Person Asked “What’s Something You Still Don’t Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed (79) Finance. Anything beyond my bank account balance vs what I owe goes over my head. Mention interest and percentage and I’m off to lala land.

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And when Rishi says he wants to teach maths until 18, what he should actually be proposing is finance, budgeting, adulting life skills

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There are three doors. You pick one. The host, who knows where the prize is, opens another (no prize there). Do you switch to the third door?Most people say don't switch, because it's just 50/50.But it isn't actually 50/50, because the host didn't open the door randomly. They opened a door that did not have the prize.Basically, the open doors "merge" into the result of opening the third door. 1/3 chance of getting it right on your initial guess. 2/3 chance (because it *must* add up to 1) of getting it by changing doors.Imagine there were 1000 doors, you chose one, the host chose 998 empty doors, and you could switch to the last closed door? Would you? 1/1000 chance of getting it right on the first guess, so 999/1000 chance of getting the prize by switching. Same exact logic, but more obvious.

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Who knows, who cares, it is pretty funny.

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The crocodile always want to eat the bigger thing. I'm a real grownup, but I still have to remind myself

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Time. I am 65 years old, and it is like everything after the year 2000 has just run by. Someone says 30 years ago and I think Yeah, right, back in the 70s. Then they say No, actually 1993, and I have to go and lie down for a while.

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Hey, time stopped for me at 2000 and I'm only 30. It happens to everyone I think lol we're just like the computers that couldn't go past 1999!

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Chess. Have had several people try to teach me, never could pick it up.

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Here are things I don't understand and never will:1. American's allegiance to sports teams.2. American's allegiance to politicians and political parties.3. Racism.4. Hatred of LGBTQIA people.5. People's devotion religion.6. Republicans who hate everyone who is not straight and white.7. The appeal of Donald Trump.8. Why America is stuck in this stupid two party system.9. Hatred.10. Gravity.(Yes, I'm American)

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We're stuck in the 2 party system because we don't have rank choice voting. Also the electoral college was intended to balance the power of the people against the power of the states. Over the last two centuries, that balance has shifted, favoring states over people. We need to re-balance the system.

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Time. I am 65 years old, and it is like everything after the year 2000 has just run by. Someone says 30 years ago and I think Yeah, right, back in the 70s. Then they say No, actually 1993, and I have to go and lie down for a while.

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Hey, time stopped for me at 2000 and I'm only 30. It happens to everyone I think lol we're just like the computers that couldn't go past 1999!

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Here are things I don't understand and never will:1. American's allegiance to sports teams.2. American's allegiance to politicians and political parties.3. Racism.4. Hatred of LGBTQIA people.5. People's devotion religion.6. Republicans who hate everyone who is not straight and white.7. The appeal of Donald Trump.8. Why America is stuck in this stupid two party system.9. Hatred.10. Gravity.(Yes, I'm American)

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We're stuck in the 2 party system because we don't have rank choice voting. Also the electoral college was intended to balance the power of the people against the power of the states. Over the last two centuries, that balance has shifted, favoring states over people. We need to re-balance the system.

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