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Cum recunoști un om deștept

Nu mă refer la oamenii care au nu știu câte facultăți și mastere făcute, ci la persoanele inteligente, cărora le merge mintea, persoanele care te uimesc în mod pozitiv prin ceea ce spun, prin punctele de vedere exprimate, prin modul în care văd viața. Ca idee, am cunoscut persoane cu 8 clase mai inteligente decât oameni cu MBA, dovada că o hârtie nu te face automat mai deștept sau mai bun.

smart-people-einsteinPe Quora este o discuție interesantă pe tema asta, majoritatea sunt de acord că o persoană deșteaptă este aceea care poate oferi soluții, puncte de vedere pe care cei din jur nu le găsesc ușor și poate face conexiuni rapid între diferite lucruri. Pe scurt, persoane care te fac și pe tine să te simți mai deștept când ești în preajma lor.

Totuși, cred că cel mai interesant răspuns e cel de mai jos, luat din articolul ăsta în engleză:

  1. They don’t talk as much as you, because they know they got smart by listening.
  2. They know lots of things other than what they’re specialised in. Theirs is the gift of a broad mind, constantly fed with the stimulant of being interested in what everyone else is doing.
  3. They juggle home, work and personal interests with dexterity and never fall back on the tired old refrain about “work life balance”. And when they’re juggling, they somehow manage to seem 100% engaged with what they’re doing, on all fronts simultaneously, even though you know they’re taking appropriate steps behind the scenes to make sure their lives are perfectly, serenely balanced.
  4. They probably do social media. Not always, but probably. It is not only another chance to listen, but one they use to ensure they can feed their brains with things they otherwise wouldn’t have come across.
  5. Even when things go very badly wrong, they’ll be smiling. Smart people never get ruffled because their smart brains present them with alternatives faster than the bad stuff can happen.
  6. They know they are usually the smartest person in the room, but they don’t spend their time dwelling on that. Instead, they take it as a personal challenge to see if they can make everyone else the smartest person in the room too.
  7. If they are managers, they will make every effort to get people smarter, more connected and more popular than them in their teams. They’re not threatened because they know that smartness is synergistic. They also make sure that their smart people get to look smarter than them for the same reason.
  8. They have hidden skills that never get rolled out until they’re needed. They don’t have any need to show their full capabilities for reasons of proving they’re better than others.
  9. They may or may not have expensive educations. You’d never know, just by being with them unless you had their CV in front of you.
  10. They never, ever, under any circumstances, make you look stupid, even though it would be easy to do so. They’ve learnt through bitter experience that the only thing that happens when you make someone look bad is you look bad yourself.

Închei cu citatul lui Creangă, Stiu ca sunt prost. Dar cand ma uit in jur, prind curaj. E trist că este la fel de valabil în România de acum ca și pe vremea lui.

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  1. Foarte fain articolul asta din arhiva, numai bun pentru inceputul de saptamana – te “ademeneste” sa te autoevaluezi, te motiveaza si e un punct de reper indiferent de varsta, pozitie sociala si teluri in viata.

    Spun asta deoarece cred ca si “desteptaciunea” (mai corect ar fi sa spun “abilitatile intelectuale”) se poate imbunatati, cu antrenament zilnic.

    Mai scoate de la naftalina evergreen-urile! 🙂

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