I am fascinated but far from surprised that the only person I know other than myself who’s thinking about this exact thing is you Eren. Love the diagram. Rumi is beyond awesome. Thank you for helping me to further crystallise this my friend. This goes to the absolute core of rationality. The whole concept is the opposite of myopic mate, great vid
I think you are misinterpreting smart for intelligent. I would say there are 4 things, as opposed to your 3: Dumb, Smart, Intelligent and Wise. A dumb man can be smart and wise. Wiseness comes from experience. Being smart is knowing how to navigate difficult paths and get away from situations, this can include social skills that can take you high in any market without necessarily deeply understanding every aspect of it. There are countless examples of people that are not the brightest in terms of problem solving and logical thinking, but are extremely good at managing people and navigating their way through society. Intelligence is what you would call IQ, that's what you are born with, that indicates how easy you will undertands topics. Any knowledge can be acquired, and a dumb man can be mistaken by an intelligent one by his hard worked knowledge, but those are different things. At the same time, an intelligent man can be extremely naive for thinking he already knows everything and end up stopping to seek further knowledge. Being smart is a skillset separate from these categories. A smart man without knowledge can also fool you to think he is intelligent or wise. Lets put it this way: There is a path of rocks. The smart man can go around the rocks to get to the other side, gracefully dodging them by being quick to respond to adversity. The intelligent man will get those rocks out of the way because he understands the problem and can rationalize it. The dumb man will look and the rocks and cry, not knowing what to do. The wise man will have come across that path many times, and knows how to dodge it, but will choose to remove the stones so that he or anyone else after him doesn't have to suffer to that anymore.
Interesting take man. I see what you mean with replacing smart with intelligence, it makes sense to me. Maybe dumb and intelligent are on the same scale, and then smart and wise are two completely different concepts. Because I agree, smarts is applicable intelligence, and wisdom is experience and caution. Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I appreciate the challenge and you definitely got me thinking.
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I am fascinated but far from surprised that the only person I know other than myself who’s thinking about this exact thing is you Eren. Love the diagram. Rumi is beyond awesome. Thank you for helping me to further crystallise this my friend. This goes to the absolute core of rationality. The whole concept is the opposite of myopic mate, great vid
Thank you so much bro. Love to hear you're also thinking of this. Yeah agreed, need to be rational and slow to avoid any unecessary risk.
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I think you are misinterpreting smart for intelligent. I would say there are 4 things, as opposed to your 3: Dumb, Smart, Intelligent and Wise.
A dumb man can be smart and wise. Wiseness comes from experience.
Being smart is knowing how to navigate difficult paths and get away from situations, this can include social skills that can take you high in any market without necessarily deeply understanding every aspect of it.
There are countless examples of people that are not the brightest in terms of problem solving and logical thinking, but are extremely good at managing people and navigating their way through society.
Intelligence is what you would call IQ, that's what you are born with, that indicates how easy you will undertands topics.
Any knowledge can be acquired, and a dumb man can be mistaken by an intelligent one by his hard worked knowledge, but those are different things. At the same time, an intelligent man can be extremely naive for thinking he already knows everything and end up stopping to seek further knowledge. Being smart is a skillset separate from these categories. A smart man without knowledge can also fool you to think he is intelligent or wise.
Lets put it this way:
There is a path of rocks.
The smart man can go around the rocks to get to the other side, gracefully dodging them by being quick to respond to adversity.
The intelligent man will get those rocks out of the way because he understands the problem and can rationalize it.
The dumb man will look and the rocks and cry, not knowing what to do.
The wise man will have come across that path many times, and knows how to dodge it, but will choose to remove the stones so that he or anyone else after him doesn't have to suffer to that anymore.
Interesting take man. I see what you mean with replacing smart with intelligence, it makes sense to me. Maybe dumb and intelligent are on the same scale, and then smart and wise are two completely different concepts. Because I agree, smarts is applicable intelligence, and wisdom is experience and caution.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I appreciate the challenge and you definitely got me thinking.