What Does It Mean To Be 'smart?'

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

How do you know when you collide with honest to Godl smart?

The dummest humans I ever knew were perfessers.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

True intelligence is the ability to learn. It is the chimp who arranges available cartons to access a hanging banana he cannot otherwise reach. It is a human of early civilization that invented tools to hunt, build fires and eventually grow crops.

And, no, there is not a substantial difference between the two examples, but the smartest individuals are the ones who use the most unlikely inferential devices or concepts to solve the most difficult problems. Einstein's deduction that the differing rate of motion of two different individuals results in time itself being relative comes immediately to mind.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Have you never met an iron worker, roofer or tree service employee?

 

[Recidiva]

The ability to formulate and achieve a goal.

If you choose a foolish goal, not so smart.

If you are unable to reach that goal because you could not formulate it into doable steps that you could execute with some ingenuity, not so smart.

A great deal of smart is potential, but misused it spins in on itself and creates a gravity well where action doesn't escape.

So it has to be measured in intended results, not serendipity or event horizon.

 

[kbate]

I picked my nose successfully today. I might try to achieve that goal again on the morrow.

I might go for an ear-wax dig later today.

 

[hashtag45]

It means:
when you're summoned to give head, you 'go along with it' but do it with your hands instead, dipped in poison ivy

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The ability to formulate and achieve a goal.

If you choose a foolish goal, not so smart.

If you are unable to reach that goal because you could not formulate it into doable steps that you could execute with some ingenuity, not so smart.

A great deal of smart is potential, but misused it spins in on itself and creates a gravity well where action doesn't escape.

So it has to be measured in intended results, not serendipity or event horizon.

Much of what I learn comes from errors and failure. But we don't measure this kind of intelligence.

 

[Recidiva]

Much of what I learn comes from errors and failure. But we don't measure this kind of intelligence.

That's part of step two, formulation and execution.

Book smarts does not equal the ability to execute.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Have you never met an iron worker, roofer or tree service employee?

The smartest people I knew were construction workers. I collided with them all the time. In education I recall 3 people who impressed me.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You clearly did not work on any of the crews that I did...

Plus, I was in the hard Sciences, so my professors were not dummies.

 

[hashtag45]

on a more serious note :
I think the way that our culture stresses only the importance of IQ tests and overachievement is quite one-sided, and heavily influenced by the jobs that are valued by society at that point in time.
But intelligence is multi-faceted, and you can easily argue that most people have something that they are good at, or have unfullfilled potentials.

((ps - I'm a bit of a marxist, can you tell?))

 

[kbate]

The smartest people I knew were construction workers. I collided with them all the time. In education I recall 3 people who impressed me.

Because your real education ended sometime around your 13th birthday and you recall only your 3rd 4th and 5th grade teachers, who beat you with sticks enough to impress you. (Unlike your Litucation in which you earned 8 PhDs and dozens of Masters.)

 

[WhiteManFux]

A fux a day keep that man in the white coat away.

That's what it means to be smart.

 

[smoothg103rd]

I smart person to me is one that can make their own decision. There are different types of smart. You can be book smart. Street smart. Professionally smart. You can have knowledge on a subject and just be smart on that subject. But dumb as a bag of rocks on other subjects.

Smart to me is someone that can think,act and react on their own.

 

[hashtag45]

A fux a day keep that man in the white coat away.

That's what it means to be smart.

lol
that one was better than my initial one
Keep'em coming, whoever's alt you are

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

on a more serious note :
I think the way that our culture stresses only the importance of IQ tests and overachievement is quite one-sided, and heavily influenced by the jobs that are valued by society at that point in time.
But intelligence is multi-faceted, and you can easily argue that most people have something that they are good at, or have unfullfilled potentials.

((ps - I'm a bit of a marxist, can you tell?))

I understand INTELLIGENCE as the acquisition rather than the process. In telecommunications intelligence is concealed within noise; sensitivity, selectivity, and resonance detect it. Intellect does the work, intelligence is its fruit.

 

[Dyslexicea]

Because your real education ended sometime around your 13th birthday and you recall only your 3rd 4th and 5th grade teachers, who beat you with sticks enough to impress you. (Unlike your Litucation in which you earned 8 PhDs and dozens of Masters.)

How I wish I had your talent as a truth teller.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

How I wish I had your talent as a truth teller.

^^^^^a fart smeller, I mean, smart feller

 

[rosco rathbone]

Have you never met an iron worker, roofer or tree service employee?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaqx7CR48Oc

 

[Liar]

Being smart is to think quickly, to make the small but many desicions in life right.

As opposed to being wise which is to think deeply, to make the big but few desicions in life right.

 

[oggbashan]

Being smart could mean having that rare, wrongly named, attribute - Common Sense.