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How do you define a "smart" person?
We are seeing a more and more of the I am smarter then you BS and he is a stupid sob but I would like to know how you define smart.
Personally it does not matter if I agree with the person I am more interested in if the person can teach me something, if you do nothing but associate with people you agree with you will likely surround yourself with like minded morons. My wifes grandfather is one of the smartest people I have ever met he was a glider pilot in WWII and his picture was on the front page of the Wall Street Journal when he retired. One thing that I have learned from him is the only people he called an idiot was someone that thought they knew it all. |
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From my experience, the "smartest" people I met, felt humbled by the vast untapped mysteries of the universe yet to be learned, and therefore, kept that statement as far from their lips as possible.
Same went for anyone extremely accomplished in their respected craft. Those folks I've met that felt any need to "toot their own horn" about their respective prowess, pretty much didn't deserve the credit they gave themselves.
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The older I become the more I understand my Grandfather's injunction to"keep your eyes and ears open and your Goddam mouth shut".
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I worked with a guy once back in the early 70s who'd been one of those glider pilots. I said something like, "I'll bet that was cool!" He said (roughly), "Are you kidding? Those damn things sank like a rock."
I read conservative columnists I don't always agree with because I think singing with only your own choir is a sure ticket to mediocrity. You raise some good points. Jesus' thing about judgement is right on, IMHO: "...and whatever measure ye mete out, shall be meted unto you..." I think flexibility is key and an ability to look closely and possibly forsake long held security-blanket-type opinions. One thing you hear from the bio-world is that organisms that can adapt best to changing circumstances are the organisms most likely to survive.
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Intelligence comes in many different forms. I know musicians who I consider geniuses but who are really not safe when they go outside on their own.
Creativity and imagination are admirable qualities. There are a lot of really smart people who get trapped into marketing and propaganda hype and logical fallacies and who don't really use much of their intelligence. I admire people who try to think for themselves even though they may not have as much intellectual horsepower; they use more of what they have. |
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understanding what you know and dont know seems like a good quality.
so by that definition i know a lot of folks who are very smart even though they might not score very high on a standardized test. tom w
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Able to hold unresolved problems in the mind and mentally attack the problems with increasingly novel solutions until a reasonable alternative presents itself. Yet able to live with the realization that some problems maybe insoluble.
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Hmm
Those with an open mind towards new ideas, who are always willing to listen regardless of how "out there" the idea or statement may seem to be. I agree with t_walgamuth though. I had a history teacher who said "It's not what you know, but how much you know about what you know" Almost a Yogism, but I understood. Never said he was an English teacher
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For "Father's Day" here is what my father in law remembers about his father's wisdom as spoken to him:
"Son, your father is not half the father my father was." |
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Memory retention, problem solving, and the application of wisdom... There's lots of kinds of smart, but the kind that matters most concerns the establishment and attainment of goals.
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slightly OT but i knew a guy who was a certified genius.. although he told us he was 3 points away from scoring as a mentally retarded person.. weird thing.. if your IQ is under 50 your mentally retarded and if you score over 150 or something your MR
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that sounds like urban legend to me.
tom w
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Yup. Take the cotton out of your ears and put it in your mouth.
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Acquiring knowledge (or "smarts", as my uncle loves to call it) is only half the battle. The ability to APPLY it in a practical manner seems to be an increasingly rare thing. I seem to make this argument here on a pretty regular basis, but I'll mix things up a bit by putting an actual ratio on it this time: I firmly believe that 30% "smarts" and 70% common sense will allow a person to accomplish a LOT more than someone with 70% "smarts" and 30% common sense. Knowledge is useless if you don't know how to use it. Mike
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Wayyy true. |
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