How do you handle a SMARTY person?

Some people really think they know it all. I try not to have any dealings with them.

Unfortunately,many persons like this lived around me,i can meet such person everywhere.No choice,you know,this is a colourful world,various people lived in the world.No doubt i dislike a smarty_pants,but i don,t think i can change their mind,so i prefer to dismiss them,only listen,but speak nothing out.

So true, everything you do or you say they know better than you, it's annoying.

That's a tough one! Just how is it best to handle or relate to a know-it-all type of a person, who knows it all, in their own way, and who will not give any credence or time listening to your way, or to your ideas about the subject too? The answer is not simple because nothing can be added to the full cup of such a tea drinker, but you can pour the tea somewhere else, other than in his cup, instead. When you hit him or her with something out of left field like this, you create an opening in their thinking, but even so, they will just then usually act quickly to close it off again. When you love another person, you allow them to be themselves around you, but do not let them stop you from being yourself around them too. There is an old Zen story that points this out nicely: A renowned university professor went to visit a famous Zen master. He claimed that he wanted to learn something about Zen. While the master quietly served tea, the professor talked about Zen himself, espousing all that he thought that he knew about it. The master poured the visitor's cup to the brim, and then kept pouring. The tea was now running over the table, and it was almost reaching the side of the table, where it might run then onto the Professor himself, seated there with the Zen master. The professor watched the overflowing cup, until he could no longer restrain himself. "It's full! No more will go into the cup!", the professor blurted out, angrily. "This is you," the master replied, "How can I show you Zen, unless you first empty your cup." We cannot teach such a smarty-pants person ever much at all. He, or she has no room inside of themselves, for any new learning to fit in.

we used to call it the : smartest person in the room" syndrome. The one person that always thinks they are the smartest person in any room. i normally just ignore them.

Hahaa, they are hard to handle so avoiding them is the best thing to do.

I think the real intelligence depends on the mind, rather than the wearing.

I try to avoid them.

You can't act long. One can recognise the real smart ones from those acting ones.

Maybe they're just good at talking. I was fooled once before when I thought he really had experience with women.

I do not handle them. I avoid them because I do not want anything to do with them if they will be like all knowing, ahaha

They can deceive you as they are often very convincing, and it can be a while before you spot the truth.

Yes. I don´t like those who know it all people. I avoid them.

I don't deal with them.

i ignore them.

a smart person never acts smart but proves thru his results while a acting smart person just claims to be so by his words which no one believes.

Smartest is different with each other...

I encountered those kind of people i just listen to their idea/opinion and thoughts. Reflect my own sight and search for a good one.