- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: lysergicide
Posted by: ObbiQuiet
Posted by: lysergicide
Nobodies special, "I don't need a test to tell me I'm an idiot, I'm smart enough to figure that out on my own."
I had to go to school with a bunch of y'all elitist mother-blam!-s. Stuyvesant High School, got in by 3 points. I surely didn't deserve it. Neither did anyone else. A whole bunch of bull-blam!-. Don't let anyone try to tell you that you're special. Cause your poo still stinks, aight? I went around thinkin I knew everything, thinkin I was smart. Took me 5 minutes of chilling with one of the "dumbest" people I know to learn that I was just an idiot like everyone else, and the fact that someone told me I was smart might have very well ruined my life. Plus, if you're smart, people expect too much from you, think that you're more than human or something. A word for all you smart people out there.
Intelligence can be both a strength and a weakness, while wisdom is the strength to overcome all weaknesses.
Your story isn't that of a smart person, but that of a dumb person who thought he was smart.
Not all intelligent people are that way because of their belief they are. Not all intelligent people are dumb, just tricking themselves into thinking they're smart.
I'm sorry but I think you missed the point buddy.
I never thought I was smart, I was told I was smart, thus I was expected to be something I clearly wasn't.
Smart, as I understand it, is having an exceptional command of logic and problem solving, while also being able to learn and assimilate new information effectively, such that one can preform certain tasks more efficiently and effectively than the average person.
I agree.
My point is that, being smart doesn't mean a damn thing when it comes down to the most fundamental problems of being human; no matter how smart you are, it is impossible to avoid being human.
Being smart doesn't mean you can avoid being human. In reality your post was about false expectations - it had nothing to do with intelligence.
The definition of a smart person is not "one who is infallable."
Something entirely unrelated to intelligence however, is wisdom. Wisdom is without definition. However it can be (in my opnion) described as and understanding of oneself, and the world around oneself that supercedes knowledge. It is a trait that can only be gained through experience; that is one cannot learn wisdom, one must earn it.
When you experiance stuff you learn. I assure you, wisdom is a learned trait. It's so broad and applies to so many things that it may not seem that way, but it is.
Nobody can teach you how to be human, how to deal with the condition that were all faced with, one that included the unavoidable clause of "old age, sickness, and death."
That is why, I am quick to judge so much, people who think that because they've been told that their abilities are extraordinary, that they are elevated above anyone else. This I can see in the way you have written so far, and in your response to my harmless rant.
Perhaps I left this out, but I was also raised to know how to debate. Responses like this are second nature to me.
And, as far as your point - being told you're intelligent doesn't mean that you're not. These smart people really may have abilities that are extraordinary. However, it seems you (not those around you - so far it seems as though the disappointment was your own, perhaps also your inability to compete where you thought you could) are upset because you had been wrong about abilities you thought you had. Because your beliefs were wrong does not mean all of those self-aware beliefs are.
As far as my real self - I was in an extremely uncompetitive atmosphere. I always did well in everything I did, but I never that I was good. I was better than all my peers in everything I did - however I never got any positive reinforcement for it from my parents. I didn't need to, either, since I got reinforcement for other things. School, competition with my peers, everything held (and still holds) very little importance to me. When I first got into gifted ed. my mom took me aside and said, "Chris, I want you to know that this doesn't mean you're any smarter than any of the other kids." And that was that. I took it to heart, and hadn't even considered the possibility until my later years.
Being better than others never occured to me on a conscious level, since I always was. Because it never occured to me I never strove to be so. I was also raised in a family of women. Since I was the only son I got a slightly different type of attention from my parents, which took away the competitive atmosphere even at home. It wasn't until my later years (10th grade) that I came to become more self aware of my position among my peers.
So, I never thought I was smart. Only when I was older I examined my abilities empirically and came to the conclusion I am smart.
Where I'm going with this, I don't know. Anyway, the person I described probably sounds a bit different from my current behavior, which is why I must remind you that I'm an actor - not by profession but as a characteristic.