What is "Smart"

[Tsukihime]

It is not possible to discuss what "smart" is if you have provided a dozen interpretations of the word.


If you're asking which interpretation people use, then I usually go with problem-solving ability.

Even a normal person can make smart decisions, though.  Often times bad decisions are made because the person wasn't using common sense.  You could be the most intelligent person in the world and yet still make a bad choice because you didn't take 2 seconds to think.

You're making comparisons based on vastly different circumstances. If that intelligent person was thinking properly, I'm sure he would have made the same decision, or perhaps a better decision, as the "common sense" person.


After all, in programming, there is always the "common sense, intuitive" solution, which may not be the best due to lack of knowledge or other factors.

 

[Chrome]

Have you driven on the highway before?

95% of the people know the laws there? yeah right.

There is too many subjects where you can be smart. You can be good with history and bad with science, or vice versa. Besides, 'smart' is a complete opinion.

I always think someone who is smart is someone who knows something better than me.

Common means almost everyone has it. But about the highway, do you mean speed limit? No one actually drives at speed limit....

 

[Seacliff]

Common means almost everyone has it. But about the highway, do you mean speed limit? No one actually drives at speed limit....

If you live where I live, they ignore them stop signs and don't use signal lights, trust me.

You did have to define Common sense tough, I tend to think of common sense as such an obvious decision that you don't need to think to solve it.

 

[Poetry]

"Smart" is being able to look at the world as it is and be able to deduce new things from what you see in front of you.

That's how I see it.

 

[Elements]

Smart eh.

Someone who makes good decisions.

And something as subjective as that is best off left as vague as I made it sound.

 

[Onii Chan]

I associate smart more with quickness of mind and thinking on one's feet.  This is different from intelligence, which means you know a great deal about any particular subject.  An intelligent person can be devoid of smarts, and vice versa.  Wisdom, is experience that comes with age, and knowing intuitively what to do in any particular situation.

If so Is it Smart To Listen to Advise? or is it wise?

 

[Taien]

Just taken from my life experience, smart implies to me, potentially applied intelligence.

1, Intelligence.

2, To be able to apply the intelligence in a useful way
3, Dressed in a conservative or suitable way, depending on the occasion.
 

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It doesn't imply rich.

It doesn't imply that the intelligence is being well used or practically applied in daily life, only that it can be, and is sometimes demonstrated to be. That was 'smart' rather than 'he is smart'.

I'll plug the main things I find will give you an advantage if it will help:

http://www.lumosity.com/ - Best mental training I have found.
https://www.onnit.com/alphabrain/ - Best mental supplement going at the time of writing. (I work in the supplement business)
Acai Berries or Goji Berry Juice. Top class antioxidants. - Failing that B Vitamins.

Regular Yoga or full body breathing to get air into the brain and body, and the blood moving. Breathing into the back, from the stomach, not the lungs - Takes practice but becomes regular as you have more capacity.

As an example - I would say these were smart things to do, you might say that was smart, but unless I apply them, I wouldn't 'be smart'.

Hope it helps

It is not possible to discuss what "smart" is if you have provided a dozen interpretations of the word.
If you're asking which interpretation people use, then I usually go with problem-solving ability.
 

After all, in programming, there is always the "common sense, intuitive" solution, which may not be the best due to lack of knowledge or other factors.

 

People like to take life and divide it to see what it is. 

 

[Daughter of Evil]

I use the term intelligent more than the term smart. For me, being smart is actually how you apply what you learned in you every day life life. Even if your an A+ student in math, but when you ride a taxi that asks you to pay 40$ and you payed 200$  but the taxi driver gives you only a change of 100$ and you just take it, then what's the point of being an A+ Student in math?

 

[DedTreeJig]

I agree with Lunarea, but I would replace learns with comprehends in the first sentence.  Learning is the acquisition of knowledge, while comprehension goes further to include understanding the value and use of knowledge  (as you alluded to).   Also, I would not necessarily say it is how quickly a person learns.  A bad teacher can make it hard for an intelligent student to learn.

-Keith

 

[zacheatscrackers]

There are alot of different defintions for 'smart', but this is the end-all-be-all definition for me;

Smart is when you are aware of your surroundings and are knowledgeable about a wide range of subjects, and you have a set of beneficial instincts built up from personal experience.

 

[Solistra]

Debating over the word "smart" is stupid -- just like irony that isn't actually ironic.

 

[BigEd781]

^^^


I'm not sure why people are so confused as to what "smart" means. It's not up for debate; go grab a dictionary.

 

[Seacliff]

^^^

I'm not sure why people are so confused as to what "smart" means. It's not up for debate; go grab a dictionary.

Except peoples views on an opinionated trait can vary.

 

[BigEd781]

Except peoples views on an opinionated trait can vary.

That's not what many here are discussing.  They are debating the *meaning* of the word "smart", which is an utter waste of time.  Debate what it means to be intelligent or smart, but not the literal definition of the word.  And saying that smart != intelligent is equally silly as they are synonyms.

As an aside, I have yet to meet an intelligent person who lacks common sense.  Given, this is anecdotal, but my hunch is that this is something that less intelligent people throw around in order to feel some amount of superiority or, at a minimum, adequacy.

 

[Chrome]

No one is debating anything, everyone has different views. There is a literal meaning of the word "sexy" but everyone will have different views on sexy.

 

[Tsukihime]

If your views on sexy contradicts the definition of sexy then your views are wrong.

 

[Chrome]

You gotta be kidding. Everyone you know likes the same type of girls? 

 

[Taien]

That's not what many here are discussing.  They are debating the *meaning* of the word "smart", which is an utter waste of time.  Debate what it means to be intelligent or smart, but not the literal definition of the word.  And saying that smart != intelligent is equally silly as they are synonyms.

As an aside, I have yet to meet an intelligent person who lacks common sense.  Given, this is anecdotal, but my hunch is that this is something that less intelligent people throw around in order to feel some amount of superiority or, at a minimum, adequacy.

You've just given us your definition too!

The thing of it is, why should a handful of men, largely in oxford england, dictate the meaning of every single word we use? This has irked me ever since I really started thinking how limiting that is.

 

[Tsukihime]

You gotta be kidding. Everyone you know likes the same type of girls?

No, but "sexy" describes a specific type of look.

You probably wouldn't look at a nun completedly covered up in religious garments and go "ooh how sexy"

 

[Chrome]

No, but "sexy" describes a specific type of look.

You probably wouldn't look at a nun completedly covered up in religious garments and go "ooh how sexy"

There is no specific look, all it means is sexually appealing and that is subjective. To me personally sexy has little to do with looks and mostly personality. You can have identical twins and one can be sexy while the other can be cute. Also there is a lot of nun porn so it has a to turn on at least some people.