Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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People are smarter than you might think.
We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.
There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.
By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
Ultimately, there is no definition for smartness. It's just the ability to do what you want to do really well.
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