Being Smart…what is it?
I thought of writing this blog because I come across so many people these days who look at how much a person can grasp by studying a certain book and score well in tests to pass a judgement that he/she is not smart
From the age of 4 when I was in 1st std, I was crazy about scoring the highest in class and getting first rank. It was embedded in my head since then that the first degree of judgement of you being smart is your intellectual capacity. I did believe in this theory very religiously till I came to high school and chose Math, Physics and Chemistry as my subjects. Even though I tried really hard, studied religiously; never scored more than just passing marks. So was I smart after all? my parents began to wonder. All the first ranks that I got from childhood went in vain. They wanted me to do engineering. Soon I realized that it was not happening..had to change my subject. The funny thing is I didn’t even score high in my under graduation which was a Commerce major.
I know now that it was just my lack of interest in the rotten education system and stale books used by the colleges. There are many out there like me who are fed up of studying the same old at one point or the other. So is judging them as “not smart” fair? Studying is important for everyone but no one says that studying can be done in so many different ways. Give one what he likes and he will be an over achiever.
The richest man on earth is a school drop out! that says it all. Yea I agree when you say that some people figure out their talents better than the others. but still they have a brain and they can’t not be smart in any way.
This blog is random but the purpose is to communicate that intellectual capacity of a person cannot be the base to judge a persons degree of smartness.
Cheers
