30 Subtle Signs Of Incredible Intelligence, As Shared By People Online

The other side of the coin seems to be that we glorify stupidity. See virtually any "realty" program from the last 25 years. Most specifically MTV and and show with the word "Jersey" in it, but also Real Housewives of Anywhere, etc. Ignorance should not be treated as a virtue, and intelligence should not be something to be ashamed of.

The fact that you don't think you are more intelligent than the people you are talking about shows incredible maturity and intelligence right there.

When I was growing up, it was definitely something you didn't want to draw attention to. It was safer to keep my mouth shut and my head down.

No one treats me badly for being smart because I'm civil to everyone. If they misbehave, it's on THEM.

With that answer, you are certainly above average.

This is what is missing in America right now. I can't have a conservation with either side of politics, without people getting angry. There is no middle line right now and it sucks.

Try living in a retirement village with people with dementia. Say I feel unable to discuss this further. We should just agree to not agree and not agree . And talk about the weather. It does not work very well so according to person for eg colonists saved the Maori from eating each other by letting free rabbits. Or aged care workers only find the cost of living difficult cos they do not work hard enough. Got a bit titxhy at that one and said way out ws to marry a rich man

Depends on the view, though. If the opposing view is fascist, for example, it's ok to be get angry over it.

That is BS, because emotional maturity is not correlated with intelligence.

If the view involves taking away the rights or humanity of other people, I’m still going to get angry about it.

Fools are always so certain.....the wise are never sure.

What, no censor for t!ts? My innocent eyes! 🫣

I must be on d***s since it looks like they don't censor tits.

Or, you know, President.

Did you mean teats ? If not, then, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ???

That was SOP when I worked IT. If you don't know, say you don't know, but follow through. As in, "I'll need to research that and get back to you" and then DO THAT. No reasonable customer should expect you to know the answer to every possible computer / network / hardware problem. We did know a lot, but not everything. There was one newer guy in my department who sat near me and I'd sometimes hear him BS'ing customers rather than admit he didn't know. He didn't last too long.

When I switched careers into sales (briefly) a very successful sales manager told me if someone asks you a question and you don’t know the answer tell them you don’t know but you will find out, and then go find out! It makes you look honest and relatable. I buy our big ticket items, especially cars and I run into this often. I ask a question and they try to BS thru it. I tell them I’m not signing anything until I get an answer in writing. If they say I don’t know let me go ask so and so I am much more comfortable and trusting.

With my kids I say "I don't know" quite a lot -but I add "let's find out together!" And we google stuff or look in actual books or simply ask ppl who might know. I think it's OK to not know a lot of stuff... it's a way better skill, imo, to know where to find the info to answer your questions.

You will never hear those words uttered by the self-described "stable genius"

I think it takes a LOT more courage to admit there's somethings you DON'T know!

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." Einstein

Yes, this and yet so much academia is about taking relatively simple concepts and conflating them into something overly complicated, convoluted and very dry. I really appreciate someone who can explain something complex in layman's terms without talking down to people or coming across as pretentious.

The Feynman Principle: You don't know a subject well enough unless you can teach it to a child. Or was that Einstein...?

on point.

My son (IQ 143) was very good at that. His last career was writing Instruction books for new military equipment that could be understood and used by 9th grade educated soldiers.

choosing not to argue ... AT ALL

That's also called a marriage. Sometimes it's better to keep the love instead of proving yourself right on a dumb argument. I have been happily married for 12 years to an extremely intelligent stubborn person.

They know that it is a total waste of their time and that there are better things to do.

Yep, that's a daily challenge

YUP. I'm now just trying to learn how to ensure that the other person 'wrongness' is not making me suffer in the future, nor letting them run rampant suffering on others (as far as I can, anyhow) - and just giving the ol 'Yes. I see you think that. Okay! Bye.' aaaand just... done.

Thank you so much for this one! I am self- educated, and awful at pronouncing certain words or names. I have actually had educated people laugh at me. It makes me really self- conscious in conversation, and I really don't need help in that area.

When we were first dating my husband said dissipatate instead of dissapate. I giggled. I tried to ignore it but he kept asking. I politely told him. Then as a joke…now I always say dissipatate.🤦🏻‍♀️ Also as a joke I started calling Rhinoceros rhinocecerous so when we go to zoos with rhinos people look at me weird when I talk about the rhinocecerouses. My husband calls them that now too. Yes, we are two grown a$$ adults with no children changing the names of animals at the zoo. Ok, mostly me.

I've definitely done this a lot. It helps to be able to read IPA so I can look up the pronunciations in the dictionary 😅

BINGO epitome rendezvous

This is me 100%. I mispronounce things I can easily spell and/or give the definition of. I was always told it was because I started reading young so everything I see is phonetic until I've been told otherwise.

This is one I absolutely agree with. I need to know why a certain rule or procedure is done the way it is.

Selfish really(no I'm not highly intelligent). The most efficient way, once learned, is usually the easiest.