Are you smart or intelligent?

I appreciate your discussion zandi. I think that wisdom is so much more important most of the time. Wisdom can help us to deal with the myriad of event that occur in every day life where having a high IQ is not going to help; I’m not disparaging high intelligence either but I think wisdom is very valuable. My grandmother used to live next door to a young man and his mother. The young guy was about eighteen and had a very high IQ and he was told he was genius material. Upon meeting this young lad I realised that socially he had a really difficult time relating to society in general. He could not converse and would be stumped doing simple things like going to the shops and working how much change he should have been given. To look at him in a social situation anyone who did not know him would have thought he was mentally retarded. It goes to show that life is all about balance. Intelligence is important but so is wisdom, a balance of both would be perfect.

Hi Zandi, I don't think one precludes the other at all. I know I am intelligent and educated to degree level, but more fully educated through reading, but academically I'm only intelligent in the areas which interest me and if something such as physics doesn't interest me then I have no intelligence in that field. Smart we all need, to be smart about people, how to survive, how to organise ones life, smart enough to know how to get done the things we can't do ourselves.

YEs I have seen a lot of letters strung out behind a name and most dont have common sence to clear up the problem To much book smarts and not enough common sence

Common sense is soooo important i think. Being book smart is an advantage many people have been lucky to get but if they don't have common sense along w/it they are in trouble. My stepfather would have been a perfect example. Bless his heart, he was a professor at the college here but had not one iota of common sense. I think it very sad when people are like that.I'll take common sense over bood sense any day.

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Similar case here,, I did not get good in school,, but followed my dad,, doing the daily work with dedication ,,and he said TIME IS MONEY,,,and keep myself clean ,I feel to keep it in mind

The better end product of whatever kind of mind you have is the ability to grasp things properly. I used to know a lot of people who came out of university and could not grasp anything properly at all. In my younger days employers in Trinidad had a very poor view of university graduates. They would come into a job and have a hard time learning how to do the work. Its indeed a lack of common sense. That most necessary ingredient.

Just exactly the kind of discussion I have come to expect and appreciate from you. You are right in that there is such a huge difference in smarts and intelligience. To be book smart alone is fine. It will get you jobs that someone else perhaps can not aquire because you have a paper that says you are "smart." But it has been my experience that those that are Booksmart usualy watch as those that are intelligient Do. Many times, once the "smart" is needed to be applied out in the field, it is found lacking. The world doesn't work on a "book" action. Time, temperature, places, people, environment, attitudes and yes, even the manufature of some products dictates how a job must be done. There must be a level of "world smarts" to actually functiuon and accomplish many tasks in todays world. There are simply too many variables in our world today. I am a man of only 8th grade schooling. Unwilling to ever alow that to stop me and the fact that I never ever wanted someone to look at me and say "He is not very well educated" I took the initiative and studied and read and studied more on my own. I Listened to those around me and surrounded myself with people of knowledge and then, I applied to my own self. because of this, this "8th grader" went all the way to the top of management. At the same time, I had the "world smarts" that if life so deemed it needed, I could do most any job to stay employed. Sadly, the world doesn't always appreciate a self educated man or lady, no matter what their skill level is. I fell victim to just such a thing. When the "Next" step in the companyt for me was higher management, those in charged realized that I did NOT have the "paper" saying I was smart. I did not have a college degree and therefore, I was passed over for the very job I was working for. My job, and it happens more than you want to know, was to TRAIN the person they hired for the job. That, was hard. SO yes, I say that there IS a difference in being "smart" and being intelligient. One sometimes begats the other but sometimes, well "take away their books and you have an empty place." Thank you for another fantastic discussion. YOU are one I call intelligent. Always, Darrel

The "tests" say I am, but for being intelligent, I can sure do some really stupid things, or make some bad choices. Nothing replaces good old common sense! Karen

Yes smarts and intelligence so are two different things, I agree. People who are supposed to be so educated but have no commone sense what so ever, it is baffling sometimes. I have a 9th grade education and I find myself to be more intelligent then most sometimes. I think people may learn more if they take their nose out of the books for a second to just pay attention to life. How people think, what people do, and not so much how things work or the technical perspective. Everything in life doesn't have to be so technical.

Hi Zandi.. I actually dont think that the intelligence comes as a heriditory gift but i m sure that being smart is a result of one hard work nyways i too have ppl who have a lot of degrees behind them and yet lack common sense that is really irritatting but the weirdest part is when u try educating them about certain facts they are absolutely edement about taking ur advice .. yeah and i do agree that being smart isnt enough always but u should have some basic wisdom..

I agree with you that intelligence doesn't define the fate of a person. For me intelligence doesn't mean you know many things, intelligence is knowing what to do and how to do things the right way.

Did you know that there's a thin between a genius and a moron? Research shows that most genius people usually don't succeed since they aren't able to cope with the struggle with everyday life. Average people, on the other hand, have a greater chances of success since they have all the practical knowledge they need to survive in this harsh environment we are living in today.

being smart is being able to carry out yourself. Smart people functions independently in both familiar and unfamiliar situations.

Hi Zandi! Perhaps you won't believe if I tell you that same thoughts were travelling in my mind today morning, whether common sense and ability to distinguish is more important than tags/degrees of educational and other qualifications. I feel that common sense and degree of wisdom to be used in practical situation is more important. If an educated person cannot act 'smart' in an odd situation, then his/her various degrees are of no use. People need to be imparted education in moral values and behavior science so that they could live a decent and respectable life. An excellent post!

hi zandi. yes i have meet some intellegent person who has a good achademical carrier with more degrees like a tail of name. but they never show any loyality to their surroundings even they have no committment on life. so i think knowledge is different from intelligency and that should be employed for social sake. yes i am neither too much smart nor itelligent. i have both simply by which i can survive or determine. thanks.

Hi Zandi!! My older sister and brother graduated with high grades and honors in HS and graduated cumlaude in college. I on the other hand only achieved academic recognition when i was on 3rd year HS and first year college. That's pretty much it for me. But as soon as my sister started working and just as I was on my 1st year in college that's when I felt that I'm a bit more intelligent an way smarter than my sister. She's intelligent but she is limited in some subjects . She's good in computing but when it involves complex formulas and analysis, she gives up. That's the reason why she shifted from accountancy to management, she can't handle the analysis. So I guess I'm intelligent and smart at the same time in a way I know myself. I'm good in academics and good in being smart in day to day living and decision making.=)

hello ~zandi . i am still a student , and some of the students are very smart and have excellent intelligent , but not all of them do well in their study , i think sometimes , the intelligent is not a dicisive role of wheather one could achieve the success , i think if you are hard working enough and find the method that suit you ,you could be surely achieve the success and become a achiever ~~! in my personal opinion "not smart enouht" is the excuse for those losers , they can not reach the goals is because they are lazy ... have a nice day ~!! my friend ~

I think no one can always be smart or intelligent at times. We all have dumb moments. I would like to think of myself as smart and intelligent mostly though. Intelligence is nothing if you are not smart. You wouldn't know how to use your brain right if you were just that :)

I'M THING, I'M SMART...inteligent, i don't thing so...