>But I tend to be of the school that thinks that there are two kinds of smart people: people that think they are smart and aren't, and people who are smart I t

>But I tend to be of the school that thinks that there are two kinds of smart people: people that think they are smart and aren't, and people who are smart I think that's a very strange school of reasonning, and it appears to be very common too. For me it doesn't reflect in real world at all. Of course you can come across some people who think they are smart and are not, but there is also plenty of people (and i tend to consider myself that way) that know they're smart, but also know that some people are smarter, and that they shouldn't infer they're the smartest people in their entourage, because that's detrimental to them. Plenty of the people i see and appreciate around me are like that, and most people who are really smart know they are.i really think this way of reasonning around the Socrates mantra is a false dichotomy. However, i think you have a point, but i'm not sure smart people don't share because they don't know they're smart, but much more because they realize the amount of contributions around them that are way more clever and usefull than what they could do, and are consequently affraid to contribute their own piece.