Square Wheels Posted March 6, 2021 Share #1 Posted March 6, 2021 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some Old Guy Posted March 6, 2021 Share #2 Posted March 6, 2021 Not smart, but I'm definitely a loser! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted March 6, 2021 Share #3 Posted March 6, 2021 2 minutes ago, Clark said: Not smart, but I'm definitely a loser! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital_photog ★ Posted March 6, 2021 Share #4 Posted March 6, 2021 I'm an intelligent donkey. Does that count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrAzY Posted March 6, 2021 Share #5 Posted March 6, 2021 Not really, but thanks for asking 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikeguy Posted March 6, 2021 Share #6 Posted March 6, 2021 I suspect not... and it's getting worse. https://medium.com/psyc-406-2015/how-fast-does-iq-decline-can-you-do-anything-about-it-f5ca370d8b62 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted March 6, 2021 Share #7 Posted March 6, 2021 Smart in some ways, and woefully ignorant in others. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted March 6, 2021 Share #8 Posted March 6, 2021 If so, I keep it well hidden 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted March 6, 2021 Share #9 Posted March 6, 2021 13 minutes ago, Kirby said: Smart in some ways, and woefully ignorant in others. I still remember after all these years when FY said it seemed like I was missing large parts of my brian. I am afeared she was right. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted March 6, 2021 Share #10 Posted March 6, 2021 Pretty narrow smartness, I'll say! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted March 6, 2021 Share #11 Posted March 6, 2021 I'm extremely good at taking IQ tests if that means anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted March 6, 2021 Share #12 Posted March 6, 2021 Nope..., "strong back-weak mind" is sort of my thing. Three smart siblings, I was the 'other' one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen ★ Posted March 6, 2021 Share #13 Posted March 6, 2021 I’m wise enough to know that I’m not nearly as smart as I think I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted March 6, 2021 Share #14 Posted March 6, 2021 It's difficult to define "smart". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffJim Posted March 6, 2021 Share #15 Posted March 6, 2021 Football analogy. I liken my smartness to an interior lineman. More known for strength than speed. Just how strong is up for debate. It helps in many areas, but I’m not the wide receiver who is lightning fast. I do think our intelligence can fade as we get older. I did have to take a competitive class in learning the Federal Acquisition Regulations two years ago. It did restore some confidence that I still can do quite well in a classroom setting if I put my mind to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted March 6, 2021 Share #16 Posted March 6, 2021 There's book smart and then there's street smart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattlecan ★ Posted March 6, 2021 Share #17 Posted March 6, 2021 I can be a smartass, does that count? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted March 6, 2021 Share #18 Posted March 6, 2021 7 minutes ago, Rattlecan said: I can be a smartass, does that count? It has the word smart right in it ......so yes it does 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post groupw Posted March 6, 2021 Popular Post Share #19 Posted March 6, 2021 I keep coming back to this forum. You decide. 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted March 6, 2021 Share #20 Posted March 6, 2021 4 hours ago, BR46 said: There's book smart and then there's street smart. The best troubleshooter at work barely passed the written test, another guy aced the written test but couldn’t find a blown fuse on the practical test 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted March 6, 2021 Share #21 Posted March 6, 2021 4 minutes ago, Further said: The best troubleshooter at work barely passed the written test, another guy aced the written test but couldn’t find a blown fuse on the practical test And then there's the guy who forgot to safely wire the drain plug before putting on the catch pan. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted March 6, 2021 Share #22 Posted March 6, 2021 1 minute ago, BR46 said: And then there's the guy who forgot to safely wire the drain plug before putting on the catch pan. We do it twice, but we do it nice. 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtyhip Posted March 6, 2021 Share #23 Posted March 6, 2021 I believe I am. My job is a low key one. I don't feel that my job defines me. My life was been very full and I believe I am wildly sucessful at living. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted March 6, 2021 Share #24 Posted March 6, 2021 I am smart enough to know better than to buy all kinds of crap from Acme. I am also smarter than Wile E. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted March 6, 2021 Share #25 Posted March 6, 2021 19 hours ago, Square Wheels said: "People who boast about their IQ are losers." Balderdash! I boast all the time about both points I scored on the IQ test. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted March 6, 2021 Share #26 Posted March 6, 2021 22 hours ago, Clark said: Not smart, but I'm definitely a loser! This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted March 7, 2021 Share #27 Posted March 7, 2021 I used to think I was really, really, smart. Whenever I'd attend a class, I immediately assumed I was the smartest student in the room. I was almost always right. When I got to undergrad college, I thought the same but learned I had to work my butt off to prove it. I set the UMBC record on the Graduate Record Exams (the SAT's for grad school) with 780 (out of 800) in Math and 720 in Chemistry. Then, I got a graduate scholarship and teaching assistantship in chemistry at IIT. I met my colleagues. I bragged to one that I had a paper published in a major chemistry journal in my undergrad Senior year. She had gotten published in her Sophomore year. I quickly learned I was no longer the big frog in the little pond. How fast some of my classmates got things amazed me. In a couple cases, I realized how incomprehensible it must be to mentally slow people how other people understand things so quickly: I was the mentally slow person! All of us scholarship grad T.A.'s in chemistry were extremely confident about our abilities. One day one guy said "I could take Russian 4, without taking Russian 1, 2, or 3, and I'd pass the class." The rest of us said, "Yeah? So what? Any one of us could do that!" But that didn't apply to 600 level Thermodynamics, Quantum Mechanics, etc. I was going to need a lot of all-night study sessions to achieve the 3.0 gpa to keep my scholarship and T.A. So I used to think I was smart. Now I know what smart is. I'm above average if I apply myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted March 7, 2021 Share #28 Posted March 7, 2021 On 3/6/2021 at 3:36 AM, maddmaxx said: It's difficult to define "smart". This is the way I look at it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted March 7, 2021 Share #29 Posted March 7, 2021 On 3/5/2021 at 5:40 PM, Kirby said: Smart in some ways, and woefully ignorant in others. +1 By most measures applied in school - aptitude tests or the like - I did quite well. But I find that the more I know, the more I realize the enormity of what I don't know. I sort of like that feeling - that at 50, I can still go so much deeper into a subject and learn more. "Know it alls" and "black or white" people drive me batty. Likewise the azzclowns who call other people "dumb" or "stupid". Nothing screams "I'm the foolish one or lazy thinker" more than calling someone "stupid" in a broad sense. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UglyBob Posted March 7, 2021 Share #30 Posted March 7, 2021 I'm just smart enough to know how to avoid getting into trouble and just stupid enough to do it anyway. This is why there's a 9 ton winch on the front of the Jeep... 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted March 7, 2021 Share #31 Posted March 7, 2021 I went to Midvale School for the Gifted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted March 8, 2021 Share #32 Posted March 8, 2021 8 hours ago, Philander Seabury said: I went to Midvale School for the Gifted. Were you able to open the door? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted March 8, 2021 Share #33 Posted March 8, 2021 Smart enough to know not to talk about it. Although, it is fun when I team up with a card carrying Mensa friend for trivia night at the sports bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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