18 clever person signs
A Life / / December 19, 2019
Ivan Masliukov
The director, entrepreneur. The creator of the international network of urban games Encounter.
1. Smart man talking with a purpose
At the meeting, on the phone, chatting. Conversation - a tool for achieving the goal.
Stupid people are talking for the sake of talking. So they indulge their laziness when busy. Or struggling with boredom and idleness in his spare time.
2. He feels comfortable in solitude
Clever is not boring with your thoughts. He understands that the important events and discoveries can occur within a person.
Stupid, on the contrary, by all means try to avoid loneliness: staying alone, they are forced to watch their own emptiness. Therefore, it seems that the only important and meaningful is happening around them. They're watching the news, strive to companies and get-togethers, a hundred times a day, checking social networks.
3. He tries to keep a balance
- Between the experience of the outside (movies, books, stories of friends) and their own experiences.
- Between self-confidence and the knowledge that he could be wrong.
- Between a ready knowledge of (patterns) and new knowledge (thinking).
- Between the tip of the intuitive and precise subconscious logical analysis of limited data.
Silly easily bump into some one extreme.
4. It seeks to expand the range of their perception
Smart wants to achieve accuracy in the sensations, feelings, thoughts. He realizes that the whole is made up of the smallest details, so it is attentive to detail, shades, to small.
Silly content averaged stamps.
5. He knows many "languages"
Smart man talking to architects through buildings, with writers - in the book, with designers - through interfaces with the artists - through pictures, with composers - through music, with cleaner - clean through yard. He knows how to communicate with people through what they do.
Stupid people only understand the language of words.
6. Smart people bring it started to end
Silly stops as they start or in the middle, or almost finished, on the assumption that it may be made unclaimed and will not do anyone any good.
7. He understands that a huge part of the world was invented and created by people
After all, shoe, concrete, bottles, sheet of paper, light bulbs, window once existed. Using the fact that it was invented and created, he wants to give thanks to mankind, and something of his own. He gladly creates himself. And when enjoying what others have done with pleasure gives money for it.
Silly, when paying for a thing, a service, an object of art, doing it without gratitude and regret that the money was less.
8. Comply with an information diet
Intelligent man no clutter the memory of facts and data that are not needed to solve the current problems. At the same time, studying the world, he seeks above all to understand the cause-and-effect relationships between events, phenomena, things.
Silly consume information indiscriminately and without trying to penetrate into the relationship.
9. He understands that nothing can be judged out of context
So do not jump to conclusions and assessments of any kind whatsoever things, events, phenomena, not yet analyze the totality of all the circumstances and details. Smart rarely criticizes, condemns.
A foolish person can easily evaluate things, events, phenomena, without delving into the details and circumstances. He was happy to criticize and condemn, thus, as it were feeling above what is the object of his criticism.
10. He considers the authority of the one who earned it credibility
Smart will never forget that, even if all share the same opinion, they can make mistakes.
Silly recognize the correct opinion, if it is supported by the majority. Them enough that many other people consider certain human authority.
11. Very selective refers to books and films
Smart does not matter when and by whom the book was written or when it was filmed. Priority - the content and meaning.
Stupid person prefers trendy books and films.
12. He has a passion for self-development and growth
To grow, a clever man says to himself: "I'm not good enough, I can get better."
Silly, trying to rise in the eyes of others, humiliate others, and thus humiliated themselves.
13. Not afraid to make mistakes
Smart man sees errors as a natural component of forward motion. At the same time he is trying not to repeat them.
Stupid once and thoroughly learned shameful making mistakes.
14. Is able focus
For maximum concentration of a smart person could withdraw into themselves, not be available for anyone and for anything.
Foolish people are always open for dialogue.
15. Intelligent man convinces himself that everything in this life depends on it
While I understand that this is not so. Therefore, he believes in himself, and not the word "luck".
Silly convince themselves that everything depends on the circumstances and other people in this life. This allows them to be removed from all liability for what happens in their lives.
16. Often steadfast as steel or soft as clay
In this case, a smart man comes from his ideas about how it should be under different circumstances.
Silly is steadfast as steel or soft, like clay, based on the desire to meet the expectations of others.
17. It is easy to recognize their mistakes
His goal - to understand the real situation and not always be right. He knows only too well how difficult it is to understand all the variety of life. Therefore, he was not lying.
Silly deceive themselves and others.
18. Behaves mostly like a smart man
Sometimes smart people allow themselves to relax and behave like stupid.
Foolish people sometimes concentrated, showing willpower, making efforts and behave like intelligent people.
Of course, no one can do the smart thing, always and everywhere. But the more in you from an intelligent man, yet you cleverer. The more of the fool more foolish.