If you’re a smart person, one day if you pay close attention you’ll meet someone who is soooo much slower at thinking than you, but has superior metacognitive skills, a mastery of system 2 thinking, and it will completely change how you think about intelligence
"How are you?" is thrown around too casually.
As a German, I'm not used to exchanging pleasantries with strangers such as cashiers like that.
It feels kind of fake to ask a question that no one really wants an honest answer to, but I guess it's part of American social norms.