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> Seems like the failure was imagining that smart people don't make mistakes. Smart people make tons of mistakes and they are confident in their ability to corr
by tablespoon 4y ago
> Seems like the failure was imagining that smart people don't make mistakes. Smart people make tons of mistakes and they are confident in their ability to correct and improve. They aren't fragile and afraid to be wrong in public because they know saying 'I don't know' isn't a death sentence.
You're creating connections that don't exist between unrelated things. "Smart people" don't all have the personality traits, attitudes, and beleifs that you're attributing to them. I'd say "smart" and the things you describe are actually completely orthogonal.
- gmadsen 4y agothey aren't the same, but they sure aren't orthogonal. truly high intelligence and problem solving grit are without a doubt correlated. And at least to me, problem solving grit by its nature requires movement rather than stationary
- p0pcult 4y ago>truly high intelligence and problem solving grit are without a doubt correlated As both a former teacher and current parent, i can say for certain that this is not true.
- barrkel 4y agoRepeated success in life is correlated with both those things, but they are not naturally correlated with one another. There are a lot of very smart people who dropped out of the race. Being smart can mean you don't need to learn grit, and maybe you never do; maybe the first hard thing comes, and you do something easier instead. There are also plenty of diligent hard workers who never amount to much more than a small business. Hard work isn't worth much on its own.