Do you consider yourself smart?

[Plebings]

Like, when I was young/in school I felt smart, got good grades and felt I'd be really well off in the future. Maybe I've just lost ambition or am just surrounded by people who seem to know what they're doing.

Also right now I'm just stuck doing the same things day in, day out, so I feel my brain slowly turning to mush.

Compared to people your age, what percentage of people do you think you're smarter/dumber than?

Also do you have lofty ambitions, and do you think you'll reach them?

[-:Undertaker:-]

no i do not

[David]

smarter than the average bear, motherfucker

[dbgtz]

Well, according to some tests I did for a job application the other week, I did better than 80%/80%/75% of people so I guess I'm not as stupid as I think I am, but I still feel don't feel overly smart. I do stupid things too often and make awful decisions that I wish people would tell me what I'm doing is stupid. Or maybe they did and I just ignored it.

Short answer: no, I don't consider myself smrt, I mean smart.

[Cerys]

Street smart or academically smart?


In primary school I thought I was a genius ngl x I was always the top of everything, then when i moved to high school personal issues came up and I guess I kind of lost ambition and confidence and let myself go down hill and started doubting myself in everything thinking I wasnt smart enough

But now i guess i'm kind of in the middle. I completely bailed out on A Levels cos i thought i couldnt do it so now im stuck with doing a degree that only has one outcome with the wonderfully amazing open uni ha ha ha x

[David]

Short answer: no, I don't consider myself smrt, I mean smart.

i understood that reference

[scottish]

Yes I would.

[buttons]

it depends - how do you define smartness? to a mathematician i would seem a complete dumbass because i can't do the most basic maths. so when im struggling with maths, that's when i feel like im really stupid. but then im good at other things so? there's different things you can be smart at and no one is smart at everything! boring answer but it's true X i think some people are smarter than we give credit for and vice versa, people we think are geniuses are bound to be stupid at something.

[FlyingJesus]

Clever yeah just got no drive to put it to use most of the time

[Gina]

no quite dumb lol as am sure majority of forum already know