Do you consider yourself smart?

[Joe]

Right now, among my peers I believe I'm quite smart in a worldly sense, but amongst my course mates I don't feel smart at all.

[Absently]

this came up quite a lot at uni. we talked about things like having a high IQ etc but that doesn't account for everything. nobody is 'smart' in everything and it really goes into what you consider smart yourself. from my perspective of my friends a lot of them are academically smart but have very little common sense - which is also something to be smart in. i'm not smart in many academic things, but i would consider myself smart with common sense and creativity. also, definitely depends in my interests, if i like something i can be 'smart' in it.

[Elegance]

i used to think i was smart, i was always in the top sets for everything (minus pe but that doesn't count) and i always had outstanding achievement certificates sent to my parents telling them about my good grades and whatnot but i stopped thinking that (and evidently lost a lot of confience too) when my mum and i went on a shopping trip to liverpool and whilst walking back to the coach stop i saw this on the side of a building and took a picture because it provoked a lot of thought.



and after thinking about it a lot i'm not really smart other than having common sense, being a fast learner and having a decent memory.

[Matt]

I don't consider myself smart at all. I pass at Uni and generally don't fail but there's so many other smart people and I'm not at their level.

[Kesuki]

Don't think that's the right question if you're going to sort of measure and compare... every human being is smart. I'm more interested in how your brain is "wired", if you're curious, looking to learn and figure out. And after you think you've figured it out, ask your self "Is there more to this?". That sort of attitude. It's easy for us to label someone smart if they can spew out a lot of facts... but all that tells is that the person has spent more time learning, something we all, given interest, can do. But of course there's differences in peoples abilities to process information (which I'm miserable at), pattern recognition etc.

[Empired]

I've almost always had good grades in school and things but it annoys me when people think that makes them clever. For me, it just means I'm good at exams and happen to be good at memorising stuff, but that doesn't make me clever. Idk it's almost kind of bad because it means I'm just good at memorising stuff that's put to me without questioning it and then I can spit it back out in exam conditions.

I do think about things a lot though, but I'm not always good at communicating my thoughts and I probably overthink a lot.

Oh I don't even know but I do find myself feeling very stupid a lot of the time.