We all have our strong points and our weak points, just cause you might get a higher grade in a paper doesn't mean that you can talk yourself out of a bad situation by reading the situation itself.
That's what I think. Although, You cannot get anywhere without a paper these times, unless you have a powerful parents/a lot of money/powerful friends. Or if you are in something like programming, like me for example, and you have friends to program with, then you can create something really good. But you have to have good friends too.
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Okay, now that I expressed my feelings about a rare thinking, which I like about that sphere, some other comment..
There are a load of different types of smartness out there
Yes, that is very true. For example - I'm good with things, that needs logical and analytical thinking. Figuring things out, judging things, reading things, understanding hard-to-understand things. Example:
I calculate things in my mind, not on paper, in ~2-3 minutes, while everyone else is doing that for 20-30 minutes (literally) on the paper in maths class. However, I am unable to calculate fractions, roots, equations and other stuff like that. I just cannot do that, I do not understand them, however hard I try. I get.. I guess F in the American style grades. I do calculate some easy in my mind, but since I cannot explain them, I get 0 points.
I can do a big, hard-to-understand algorithm of some stuff drawing, movement or AI in programming, but I cannot do physics, which is perfect, or a perfect collision algorithm.
I can understand, what people mean, when they are talking about some hidden, or deep meaning, but I do not understand lyrical context or sometimes plain question, which would be asked of a regular person.
I can read people's mind, but i cannot express my emotions to feel like a nice to talk person.
And here we come to my thread - I can say a big, complex sentence about some facts, theories, "which means" things, but It's hard for me to express, what I think about something, or explain how something works.
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Yea, little too many examples, but anyway.
It's very true. However, I do speak in a deep, strange to some people, way. Use more complex words often. Here's a situation: A week ago, i told something to my teacher, only me and one of my classmates understood, what i said - i used too many complex words... So yea.
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Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
Yes, I've a friend, who knows a lot, but most of the things he knows - TV BS. So he's basically filled of BS. But he does know a lot. He does know some good facts too.
However, his IQ is ~80. He's a regular person. He cannot understand some simple things, think about some simple things, figure out simple things... He cannot feel the difference between an actual lie, which is obvious and the truth, etc. But he knows a lot.
I think, Imma but this quotation on my Skype.
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Computer blogs are all over the Internet. What exactly are you looking for?
I'm looking for a forum with smart people. In our country, I managed to find 3 forums about computers. One of them was dead. Two other had 1 administrator, and one of them one moderator, who were answering questions, and MANY other people, who were asking for really stupid questions. I never asked such a question, and i learned everything by myself. I doubt, they are very smart, since they cannot figure simple things out.
And keep in mind - there's only 1 and 2 persons in those forums, who are actually answering questions. Being in reply mode and forming their sentences not in question form.
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Hm. Okay, so... rubber's got the point actually here. Well, not the whole point. You said, that we are smart in a different way, to which i agreed with many examples. However, as I said - I have a hard time explaining myself, expressing my emotions feelings and thoughts about every day life things. But I still speak in a different way, that most of the people around me does. I use complex words, use complex dictionary, use complex examples and use one of the most solid ways of very gentle humor often - sarcasm. Sarcasm is not understood by everyone. So this partially deflects your argument about my question, because it's not always, rather rarely, determined by the category of where the guy/girl is smart at.
I'm not speaking about speaking geniuses, like Hitler for example (Hey, no flaming here, just a good example, not a fan of his).
Anyway, this thread is quite inactive, I'd say. I mean... If you are smart - C'mon, tell us your opinion, write something, write your story, what you are smart at, I can see how you speak then, if you don't know, if you speak like a regular person. If your IQ's over 120, you'r half-genius, Express yourself.
That's why I created this thread, after all - to get known how you speak.
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