Most of the brightest people I know you can't tell just by casually talking to them so in my past when I tried to find out of the box thinkers what I mainly fou

Most of the brightest people I know you can't tell just by casually talking to them so in my past when I tried to find out of the box thinkers what I mainly found was pretentiousness. I'm not saying it's inevitable or even that some pretentiousness is always a bad thing but it would definitely be something that you would need to look out for.