thinkin abt how smart satoshi is again. like he's an idiot but he's not stupid. he's often naive & clueless, & he's pretty gullible if he feels no reason to believe he's being lied to, & he definitely doesn't have aptitude for traditional schooling & academia. but he's smart!! he loves learning, he's got a knack for split-second analysis, he's got great intuition based on very few experiences, he forms theories & tests them & actively adjusts for error, he absorbs abstract concepts readily, learns languages fast through exposure, remembers nearly anything he pays attention to which is almost always pokémon related, that's not even getting into how much he's learned about the pokémon he's encountered— smart cookie. & even though he does struggle with learning in some formats, he loves learning anyhow!! always eager to try, anyhow. trivia, history, biology, geology, a skill, a sport, a method, a song, anything, everything, satoshi loves learning, all things broadening his horizons & thus making him a better trainer.
