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Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by chessguru1(m): 5:51pm On Jul 10, 2013
Tee-gurlee.:
Smart pipz dnt c themself as smart,neither do they read articles dat makes them knw their level as smartnes.I DID NT READ D ARTICLE,NEITHER DO I C MYSELF AS SMART.
Your logic is pathetically flawed tongue
Faulty premise leading 2 a faulty conclusion.
Its like saying good drivers are pipz that don't drink and drive.
I dont/didn't drink, therefore I am a good driver.
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BTW I don't drink myself, but can't drive a car to save my life tongue

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Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by Billionaires: 5:53pm On Jul 10, 2013
I guess I outsmarted the smartest by scoring 101%.
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by Ajibam: 5:59pm On Jul 10, 2013
rodeo0070: It’s a concept that can be difficult to come to terms with, but like it or not our intellect (or our perceived intellect) can often work against us in life. The indications are all there once you have the eyes to see them. Have you fell into the “I think I’m too smart for my own good” trap? Don’t worry the big part of correcting a mistake is realizing it exists! Check out these 5 signs you are not as smart as you think you are and see if any or all apply to you. Coming quickly to terms with them and correcting this kind of self-defeating behavior can make you truly smarter fast! And perhaps more importantly, much happier too.


Lack of Professional Success

Opinions are by their nature subjective – think of beauty as being in the eyes of the beholder as a classic example – while end results, like numbers in a pay check are very much objective and impossible to argue with. Smart people leverage their intelligence into professional success. If you are thirty five years old, consider yourself brilliant yet are living in your parent’s basement it’s pretty clear you are not as smart as you think you are. Smart people figure out a way to make money not make excuses!

Always Being in the Center of Conflict

Smart people, truly smart people that is, don’t spend every waking moment wasted in argument, conflict and debate. The need to prove how correct you are at the expense of co-workers, friends, family and the majority of people you meet on the street reveals a insecurity that truly intelligent people rarely have. It’s a flashing neon sign that tells the world you are not nearly as smart as you think you are! Avoid unneeded conflict and watch the energy you save get utilized for positive projects and to fuel constructive behavior. Now that’s a sign you are getting smarter!

You Are Always Rushing Around and Way too Busy

Do you find most of your days fighting the clock and running from crisis to crisis? Time and energy management is a skill all truly smart people quickly learn to manage to make the most out of life, minimize stress and out produce their less smart peers. Ask yourself if you are so intelligent why are you always running around in a panic like a chicken without a head? Occasional bouts of overwork may be unavoidable aspects of our professional or home lives, certainly, but if this is a reoccurring nightmare you are hardly as smart as you may like to think you are. Smart people know this is hardly a way to live or to produce up to a person’s true highest potential!

You Talk Much More than You Listen

What do you think of when you are around someone who just won’t stop talking to even catch a breath? Don’t images of scam artists, unscrupulous used car salesmen and high school air heads flash to mind? Certainly not people with true intelligence who understand there’s much more benefit and lasting power in the sometimes lost art of listening rather than talking. Which category do you most often fall it – the endless babbler or the active listener? The answer says a great deal about just how smart you really are. Listen more and talk less.

Your Reading Habits are Hardly Challenging

If you needed to find one top quality shared by all truly intelligent people you could do much worse than focusing on the love of reading. Real reading about difficult and thought provoking subjects – not escapist low brow entertainment. Reading is an essential tool in the quest for continued self development and it’s embraced by all the truly smart. If you consider yourself in this category, but spend your free time zoned out in front of the television or wasting time reading foolish crime novels it may be time to reconsider. A few hours of challenging reading a night can help expand your intelligence and creativity in astoundingly magical ways and move you quickly towards being smart for real. Adopting this habit alone can be a true game changer you will have no choice, but to thank yourself for a year from now. Don’t hesitate to act on it if you’d like to be smart rather than just think you are smart!

CULLED FROM: http://www.fitnea.com/5-signs-you-are-not-as-smart-as-you-think/

Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by IfyMeg(m): 6:06pm On Jul 10, 2013
Dis doesn't need much comments and blabbing,
with a write up like dis, I believe everybody knows where they stands.

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Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by GentleNaaz(m): 6:08pm On Jul 10, 2013
I thought i would fall victim of at least one of these; just realised am smarter dan i think
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by Nobody: 6:10pm On Jul 10, 2013
This article is quite subjective.
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by GentleNaaz(m): 6:11pm On Jul 10, 2013
LesbianBoy: I think i am smart!

(*scratch that*)


I KNOW I AM SMART!!! because it takes a SMART perzin to be the 3rd to cormment!!! tongue
cormment? Don't think u r smart at all
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by Jeezuzpick(m): 6:12pm On Jul 10, 2013
Point #1 Is a bit contendable.
Being willing to give the general population what they want and get paid for putting out "popular rubbish" may not expressly connote smartness!

Not in Naija entertainment industry it doesnt!!

Just shows how many bozos we got in this country...

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Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by brightedge(m): 6:16pm On Jul 10, 2013
I think I can identify with this article. I used to think I was super intelligent, primarily because I was a local champion in high school and college. But at a time, I realized a lot of persons were better than me. Before then, I used to always groan when I'm not successful in some selection process that requires some intelligence, like passing a job aptitude test or interview. For example, when I just graduated, I used to refuse to apply to some companies, like banks because I felt I was too smart to work in a bank. In retrospect, I think I was naive. I even turned down some job offers thinking I deserved more pay. With time, I had to humble myself to get to the basics of whatever I want to do, without much expectations from myself. I just had to start from somewhere and keep making steady progress. I think this has made me happier somehow. The challenge lies in trying to gauge your real capabilities. Sometimes, we underrate ourselves and at other times, we overrate ourselves.

There are two dangers in thinking you're very smart. First, it'll make you feel relaxed, thinking you do not need to work as much as others - just because you're smarter than them. This can easily lead to failure. Second, you start expecting too much from yourself. When you don't meet up to your expectations, you become frustrated and you blame the "unfair" system; instead of figuring out why you failed.

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Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by PStacks(m): 6:23pm On Jul 10, 2013
Just subject urself to an IQ test and u'l know how smart u are, every other thing is Bla Bla Black sheep.

Bill gates wasn't considered a smart ass kid.

Genius they say is just a continual application of common sense, well, most'a times common sense is not common.

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Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by joseph1832(m): 6:24pm On Jul 10, 2013
There's a vast difference between a smart person and an intelligent person. But as the OP rightly said, it's a matter of opinion and opinions are subjective and not absolute truth!
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by joseph1832(m): 6:33pm On Jul 10, 2013
rodeo0070: It’s a concept that can be difficult to come to terms with, but like it or not our intellect (or our perceived intellect) can often work against us in life. The indications are all there once you have the eyes to see them. Have you fell into the “I think I’m too smart for my own good” trap? Don’t worry the big part of correcting a mistake is realizing it exists! Check out these 5 signs you are not as smart as you think you are and see if any or all apply to you. Coming quickly to terms with them and correcting this kind of self-defeating behavior can make you truly smarter fast! And perhaps more importantly, much happier too.


Lack of Professional Success

Opinions are by their nature subjective – think of beauty as being in the eyes of the beholder as a classic example – while end results, like numbers in a pay check are very much objective and impossible to argue with. Smart people leverage their intelligence into professional success. If you are thirty five years old, consider yourself brilliant yet are living in your parent’s basement it’s pretty clear you are not as smart as you think you are. Smart people figure out a way to make money not make excuses!

Always Being in the Center of Conflict

Smart people, truly smart people that is, don’t spend every waking moment wasted in argument, conflict and debate. The need to prove how correct you are at the expense of co-workers, friends, family and the majority of people you meet on the street reveals a insecurity that truly intelligent people rarely have. It’s a flashing neon sign that tells the world you are not nearly as smart as you think you are! Avoid unneeded conflict and watch the energy you save get utilized for positive projects and to fuel constructive behavior. Now that’s a sign you are getting smarter!

You Are Always Rushing Around and Way too Busy

Do you find most of your days fighting the clock and running from crisis to crisis? Time and energy management is a skill all truly smart people quickly learn to manage to make the most out of life, minimize stress and out produce their less smart peers. Ask yourself if you are so intelligent why are you always running around in a panic like a chicken without a head? Occasional bouts of overwork may be unavoidable aspects of our professional or home lives, certainly, but if this is a reoccurring nightmare you are hardly as smart as you may like to think you are. Smart people know this is hardly a way to live or to produce up to a person’s true highest potential!

You Talk Much More than You Listen

What do you think of when you are around someone who just won’t stop talking to even catch a breath? Don’t images of scam artists, unscrupulous used car salesmen and high school air heads flash to mind? Certainly not people with true intelligence who understand there’s much more benefit and lasting power in the sometimes lost art of listening rather than talking. Which category do you most often fall it – the endless babbler or the active listener? The answer says a great deal about just how smart you really are. Listen more and talk less.

Your Reading Habits are Hardly Challenging

If you needed to find one top quality shared by all truly intelligent people you could do much worse than focusing on the love of reading. Real reading about difficult and thought provoking subjects – not escapist low brow entertainment. Reading is an essential tool in the quest for continued self development and it’s embraced by all the truly smart. If you consider yourself in this category, but spend your free time zoned out in front of the television or wasting time reading foolish crime novels it may be time to reconsider. A few hours of challenging reading a night can help expand your intelligence and creativity in astoundingly magical ways and move you quickly towards being smart for real. Adopting this habit alone can be a true game changer you will have no choice, but to thank yourself for a year from now. Don’t hesitate to act on it if you’d like to be smart rather than just think you are smart!

CULLED FROM: http://www.fitnea.com/5-signs-you-are-not-as-smart-as-you-think/
OP it takes a smart person like Anthony Anenih to rig elections continuously without being caught. It takes a smart person like Maina to steal police pensions and also get away with it. It takes smart boys to dupe foreigners of enormous amount and getting away scud free. It makes a smart man to lie continuously in church and deceive people into giving them their hard earn money. It takes a smart man to deceive a girl by telling her he wants to marry her but in reality he just wants to sleep with her, the list is endless....

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Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by Jehochee(f): 6:33pm On Jul 10, 2013
pweetymama: So true.wen u lose d habit of reading,it actually takes away dat confidence from you.
i concur.
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by brownkenny(m): 6:34pm On Jul 10, 2013
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human being when don dey Bleep no fit do with am ooo he be like ciga lol
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by adrainuche(m): 6:34pm On Jul 10, 2013
Thankxxxx !!!!
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by Extom(m): 6:43pm On Jul 10, 2013
LesbianBoy: I think i am smart!

(*scratch that*)


I KNOW I AM SMART!!! because it takes a SMART perzin to be the 3rd to cormment!!! tongue

It also takes a smart person to take into cognizance, that their spellings aren't correct!!!
#SMH
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by Nobody: 6:45pm On Jul 10, 2013
When has black person been seen as smart?
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by drogs(m): 6:47pm On Jul 10, 2013
LesbianBoy: I think i am smart!

(*scratch that*)


I KNOW I AM SMART!!! because it takes a SMART perzin to be the 3rd to cormment!!! tongue
if you're really smart as you claim, den you'll know dats not the right way to spell comment. Lols.
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by philfearon(m): 6:52pm On Jul 10, 2013
I just weighed myself alongside the topic and its content..I realised that i am failing in one(still living with my Parents)...But then,am still a student..
Aside that,am getting smartest............God help me!
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by Resistor: 6:54pm On Jul 10, 2013
If this is really true,we can then conclude GEJ is smart!
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by stevecantrell: 6:55pm On Jul 10, 2013
DUH ! Could somone summarize what the OP wrote up there...I'm not into the habit of reading that much..duh!
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by samdean(m): 6:59pm On Jul 10, 2013
cool cool
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by Nobody: 7:01pm On Jul 10, 2013
LesbianBoy: I think i am smart!

(*scratch that*)


I KNOW I AM SMART!!! because it takes a SMART perzin to be the 3rd to cormment!!! tongue
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by Nobody: 7:01pm On Jul 10, 2013
ohkay i ll tink abt it.
#flips to another page of my romance novel#
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by Nobody: 7:06pm On Jul 10, 2013
Nice writeup.
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by Okeikpu(m): 7:12pm On Jul 10, 2013
lipsrsealed
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by omonnakoda: 7:14pm On Jul 10, 2013
Afam4eva: Whoever wrote the article is not that smart...
You are very far from smart

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Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by Castos(m): 7:36pm On Jul 10, 2013
nnekaela: I just realised am 90% smart.
Smart girls don't snap there bossom(profile pix)
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by rman: 7:41pm On Jul 10, 2013
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bright_edge: I think I can identify with this article. I used to think I was super intelligent, primarily because I was a local champion in high school and college. But at a time, I realized a lot of persons were better than me. Before then, I used to always groan when I'm not successful in some selection process that requires some intelligence, like passing a job aptitude test or interview. For example, when I just graduated, I used to refuse to apply to some companies, like banks because I felt I was too smart to work in a bank. In retrospect, I think I was naive. I even turned down some job offers thinking I deserved more pay. With time, I had to humble myself to get to the basics of whatever I want to do, without much expectations from myself. I just had to start from somewhere and keep making steady progress. I think this has made me happier somehow. The challenge lies in trying to gauge your real capabilities. Sometimes, we underrate ourselves and at other times, we overrate ourselves.

There are two dangers in thinking you're very smart. First, it'll make you feel relaxed, thinking you do not need to work as much as others - just because you're smarter than them. This can easily lead to failure. Second, you start expecting too much from yourself. When you don't meet up to your expectations, you become frustrated and you blame the "unfair" system; instead of figuring out why you failed.

The fact that you were able to retrace your steps and do a proper self analysis makes you a smart man.

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Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by vislabraye(m): 7:44pm On Jul 10, 2013
There are exceptions to the rules. A man could be rich and successful and still be foolish. While a man could be poor and be smart. But can we say dat there are no poor people dat are smart?

Smartness is actually subjective.

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Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by Nobody: 7:57pm On Jul 10, 2013
I thank God for my life grin


balium: i just realized i'm smarter than i think
Same here smiley
Re: 5 Signs You Are Not As Smart As You Think. by orgasticdance: 8:01pm On Jul 10, 2013
P.Stacks:
Just subject urself to an IQ test and u'l know how smart u are, every other thing is Bla Bla Black sheep.

Bill gates wasn't considered a smart ass kid.
This is wrong. Nigerians throw up bill gates when they want to excuse their academic ineptitude. He was very book smart actually, coupled with his common sense. 1590/1600 in his first SAT attempt and he rewrote it because he was cheesed off by his imperfect verbal score. 1600/1600 in his next attempt. Dropped out of college cos he was way too smart to remain in slowpoke harvard, not vice versa.

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