Am I dumb or are you smart. Are you dumb and I'm smart.

This is a dumb question.

 

That was smart. Not. That means that was not smart.

 

I'm much too tired to answer this question at the moment.

Does that make me stupid?


This probably sounds bad; but I usually feel that I'm the 'dumb one'. I have a good vocabulary; but if other people are talking about things that I am not aware of or using words that I don't know, I tend to feel quite dumb. I'm always surprised when someone tells me they think I'm wise or smart.

It's not that I don't feel I have intelligence, I just know there are always going to be people smarter than me; but by the same token, there will always be people who are not as smart as I am.

Well, it makes sense in my head anyway.

 

There is a lot of things to observe in other individuals and take into consideration when you completely remove yourself and your opinions from the act of observing them. We all would like to think, that I am smart, I know what's real, "n they'z be all like dumb yo". I'm doing what's right, "n he, he aint no what he wantz he crazy wrong".

And yet even while we would like to think that, the truth is we take turns being in the position of either the smart or dumb one, so much as there is somebody who finds it appropriate to judge the whole of your intelligence based on one single run in or experience.

Typically you can learn best how you are as a person based upon others reactions, in terms of smart or dumb. I find if I am showing a different level of understanding in a circumstance, it can either breed honest curiosity, or fear in the sense that they feel intimidated by me in my ability to articulate what I think and feel, or I might just be annoying them by my lack of not shutting up, in this case, I'm dumb. But then they're dumb. They labeled me. Shut me off, they no longer want to get to know me cause I'm dumb to them. If I appear dumb to them, they might start trying to hold my hand, telling me what I want, what I need, shrugging off the importance of what I have to say. Etc.

There's a whole world to observe every minute. 1000s of angles. Best advice is to call nobody smart or dumb, nobody is entirely either. People will and can surprise you. We take turns pointing out to each other when our heads have gone too far afloat.

 

I know it's really fucking arrogant but I assume I'm smarter than most. Can't help it. It's a personality flaw I suppose. I'm not one of those smart arse know-it-all types though. I keep my superior intelligence to myself

 

That last bits a bit contradict-ive ayyo??

But anyway, speculation but, I'm starting to believe people think their level of intelligence is equivalent to their ability to find faults in others that the observer thinks they don't have. "Oh hey I don't do that, glad I'm not that dumb". Problem with this is not everybody finds the same thing in another to be a fault, so with this we cut off our ability to feel other people for who they are. If we call somebody "dumb" in our mind, we more than likely will begin to passively filter out what they have to say, we don't completely pay attention, because we think they are dumb and thus implies their information they share is of little credibility. An ad hominem-like state inevitably emerges. I don't know if that's actual smarts at all. But that's just my 2 cents on the matter of the whole smart and dumb thing, given my particular thesis on this subject.

 

Excerpted from Desiderata...

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^ Nicely put. Gloating about being smart can be quite the trap.

 

I guess id start at seeing how good they are at problem solving....

Tho i never compare ppls ability's anyway *just being honest n nt trying to be an angel*

 

Smart is the ability to apply intelligence in a meaningful way.

 

In a way that conforms to what society considers to be intelligent

 

Nah, everybody got they own smarts.

 

Welcomes ur positive nature..

 

Woar

 

am smorter then you all

 

That is BS, man...