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ARE YOU REALLY SMART?
Well, how operating myself in Random Environment is making all the difference in my definition of “Smartness”.
Are you the one who is taking more time than your colleague to solve a problem? Is that colleague of yours labeled as SMART by society? I guess we do have someone like that in every group, may be this is being read by that someone (and you know that you are that someone)
Have you ever stopped and think about the environment that are you operating in right now? Is it an environment in which the solution of X is always Y or is it an environment where the solution can be either be Y or P or A or Q or B or anything? Who is smarter — the esteemed Dentist in your town or the best Poker player of that same town? Which profession your parents will label as SMART? I am very sure that Dentists will win here. But why?
How to evaluate if someone WAS really Smart Enough? I believe I have found a way for myself. The way to do this is to look into the past and ignore the present. Look into your past and think of that one person who was always pushing himself in a random environment. Who wasn’t running around solving problems, which eventually will be solved by everyone(some just take little longer). When you were studying Architecture, that person was looking at designs from the perspective of Evolutionary Biology (or how Darwin or Piet Mondrian will think of…
