This reminds me of a kind of intelligence scale ive seen before:
First there are stupid people, and then there are stupid people who know they are stupid, then there are smart people who think they are smart, and finally there are smart people who know they are actually not that smart.
Self awareness is the differentiating factor at every level.
Intelligence comes in many forms; practical, creative, mathematical, logical, social, emotional, etc. As members of society we are more or less forced to specialise and must accept that being really good at something usually means we are terrible at something else. So if you are half as smart as you think you are, you will learn to recognise all the areas where you really are not, which vastly outnumber the ways in which you are.
Which is a bit like saying: "I dont know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
I for one am not that smart, im just a lot less stupid than most ;)
First there are stupid people, and then there are stupid people who know they are stupid, then there are smart people who think they are smart, and finally there are smart people who know they are actually not that smart.
Self awareness is the differentiating factor at every level.
Intelligence comes in many forms; practical, creative, mathematical, logical, social, emotional, etc. As members of society we are more or less forced to specialise and must accept that being really good at something usually means we are terrible at something else. So if you are half as smart as you think you are, you will learn to recognise all the areas where you really are not, which vastly outnumber the ways in which you are.
Which is a bit like saying: "I dont know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
I for one am not that smart, im just a lot less stupid than most ;)