1. A smart person talks with a specific purpose
At a meeting, by phone, in a chat. Conversation is an instrument for achieving the goal.
Stupid people are talking for the sake of talking. So they indulge their laziness when busy. Or they struggle with boredom and idleness in their free time.
2. Comfortably feels alone
Clever not bored with your thoughts. He understands that important events and discoveries can occur within a person.
Silly, on the contrary, with all their might try to avoid loneliness: being alone with themselves, they are forced to observe their own emptiness. Therefore, it seems to them that something important and meaningful can only happen around. They watch the news, strive for companies and get-togethers, check social networks a hundred times a day.
3. He tries to keep his balance
- Between experience from the outside (movies, books, stories of friends) and own experience.
- Between faith in yourself and the realization that he can make mistakes.
- Between ready-made knowledge (patterns) and new knowledge (thinking).
- Between an intuitive prompt from the subconscious and an accurate logical analysis of limited data.
Fools easily hit one extreme.
4. Strives to expand the range of his perception
Clever wants to achieve accuracy in sensations, feelings, thoughts. He understands that the whole consists of the smallest details, so he is so attentive to the little things, the shades, to the small.
The fools are satisfied with the averaged stamps.
5. Knows many “languages”
A smart person communicates with architects through buildings, with writers – through books, with designers – through interfaces, with artists – through pictures, with composers – through music, with a cleaner – through a clean courtyard. He can communicate with people with the help of what they do.
Stupid people understand only the language of words.
6. A smart person brings to the end
A fool stops when he starts, or in the middle, or almost finished, on the assumption that what he has done may be unclaimed and will not do anybody any good.
7. Understands that a huge part of the world around him was invented and created by people
After all, boots, concrete, bottles, sheets of paper, bulbs, windows once did not exist. Taking advantage of what was invented and created, he wants to give humanity and something from himself in gratitude. He is happy to create himself. And when he uses what others have done, he gives the money for it with pleasure.
Stupid, when they pay for a thing, a service, an object of art, they do it without gratitude and with regret that there is less money.
8. Observes the information diet
A clever person does not clutter up memory with facts and data that are not needed to solve current problems. At the same time, studying the world, he seeks first of all to understand the cause-effect relations between events, phenomena, things.
Silly users consume information indiscriminately and do not try to understand the relationship.
9. Understands that nothing can be assessed without context
Therefore, do not hurry with the conclusions and assessments of any things, events, phenomena, until they analyze the totality of all the circumstances and details. Smart very rarely criticizes, condemns.
A foolish person easily assesses things, events, phenomena without going into details and circumstances. He is happy to criticize and condemn, thus, as if feeling above what is the object of his criticism.
10. He considers the authority of someone who deserves his authority
The clever never forgets that, even if everyone is of the same opinion, they may be wrong.
Fools recognize a correct opinion, if it is supported by the majority. It is enough for them that many other people consider a certain person to be an authority.
11. Very selective for books and films
It does not matter to a smart person when and by whom the book was written or when the film was shot. Priority – content and meaning.
A foolish person prefers fashionable books and films.
12. Has a passion for self-development and growth
To grow up, an intelligent person says to himself: “I’m not good enough, I can become better.”
Silly, seeking to rise in the eyes of others, humiliate others and, thus, humble themselves.
13. Do not be afraid to make mistakes
The intelligent person perceives errors as a natural component of the movement forward. In doing so, try not to repeat them.
Foolish once and for all have thoroughly grasped the shame of making mistakes.
14. Is able to concentrate attention
For maximum concentration, an intelligent person can close in himself, be inaccessible to anyone and for nothing.
Stupid people are always open to communication.
15. An intelligent person convinces himself that everything in this life depends only on him
Although he understands that this is not so. Therefore, he believes in himself, and not in the word “luck”.
Stupid convince themselves that everything in this life depends on the circumstances and other people. This allows them to absolve themselves of all responsibility for what is happening in their lives.
16. Hard as steel, or soft as clay
At the same time, an intelligent person proceeds from his ideas about how he should be under different circumstances.
Stupid can be hard as steel, or soft as clay, based on the desire to meet the expectations of others.
17. Easily admit their mistakes
His goal is to understand the real state of things, and not always be right. He understands too well how difficult it is to understand the diversity of life. Therefore, he does not lie.
Fools deceive themselves and others.
18. Behaves mostly as an intelligent person
Sometimes intelligent people allow themselves to relax and behave like stupid people.
Stupid people sometimes concentrate, show willpower, make efforts and behave like intelligent people.
Of course, no one can act smartly anytime, anywhere. But the more you have from an intelligent person, the smarter you are. The more of a fool, the more stupid.
