Common sense is not so common after all

You really pointed that out! People are truly unique even in the information that is stored in our individual brains. My BF also taught me once how to drive a motorbike. He's been driving since highschool so I guess he has developed the skill and the "common sense" when it comes to driving. What I mean to say is, he knows when to step on the clutch, when to hit the brakes, when to turn , how to stop. When he taught me, he expected me to already have keen sense of judgement as to what to do in a certain situation. He threw me that line, "common sense" and it kind of scared me. Not annoyed. Scared. Driving terrifies me at this point and there's balancing, and coordination that I am still trying to learn and he already expects me to be an expert. What if I encounter something and the controls just get mixed up in my brain, add to that the fact that I don't have the "common sense" for it. I might just end up crashing onto an electric post! Scary thought.

Is common sense common? Well, the definition of common is shared by all. While we all have "sense" some people don't use it the way it should be used. Rather, they use their own (often very illogical) thinking and mistakenly think it is common sense. Maybe we should call it "logical sense"? But then, what is logical to some is plainly not logical to others, so that won't work either. Maybe we just have to accept that we are different. We think in different ways and see things differently. Since common sense will never be common to all, let's just hope that we all keep an open mind, always able to at least consider another person's views.

Men are from Mars and women are from Venus? I have noticed that what seems logical to one person may be quite different from what is logical to another, and also that husbands tend to call the woman's reasoning illogical because it differs from their own. That is a put-down. But what is meant by common sense is reasoning that, while it may not be all that common, is derived from our experience rather than from a formula or someone else's directives. It is like when we say someone cannot see the forest for the trees. The common sense solution is the one that is right in front of our eyes. Sometimes we look so far away that we do not see what is near. A common sense solution is one that is close at hand and uses what we have.

I consider myself a common sense thinker but I do realize that not every person thinks this way, in fact a lot of people dont use there common sense the part of there brain that tells them certain basics in life, so I think your right in a way because a lot of people just have a different way of viewing things so common sense isent so common after all, but it can also depend on what your interpretation of what common sense is.

Hi kala Recently I am observing that common sense is becoming common in well educated people itself. The way they do the way they talk makes me think like that. As a matter of fact, I too lack common sense at times. In a hurry I will take certain decisions for which I will repent later on proving the adage that haste makes waste

Yah your right. Common sense is not common because some are just so stupid not to use it, they simply dont have, or they do have but pretending not to have it. Pitty are those who does not have it, my appreciation goes to those normal persons who have and uses it well.

Hi kala, It is true that ‘common sense’ is ‘uncommon’ in people. Many intelligent people are failing to apply their common sense when in need. It may be simple but need observation which is not simple for all. So it is saying that ‘common sense is not common for all’.

There are certain things that people take for granted that everyone should know. That is what is referred to as common sense. But what is common for one person may not be for another. Things that are truly common sense would have to be universal, like if you touch something hot, you will get burned. Other things, like facts that are specific to a certain topic, like computers, are not common sense. But people who know those things sometimes take for granted that everyone does. Even truly common sense things seem to be lacking these days in a lot of people. I see people doing things when they really should know better.

I think common sense is really common because all people have it. The only difference is that some people use it and some don't. I believe that I often use it, but sometimes I forget to. I think what is needed is for us to train ourselves to use our common sense.

I think we say common sense when we expect the thing that is done maximum people. So it's common. But somethings are really uncommon but we expect . It's natural.