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It’s the exact opposite trope in my experience. The ingenious people that are always right are invariably courteous, polite and a pleasure to be around. Those a
by soligern 3y ago
It’s the exact opposite trope in my experience. The ingenious people that are always right are invariably courteous, polite and a pleasure to be around. Those a little bit lower on the intelligence rung are usually the ones that feel the need to be contrarians and generally disruptive to “prove” their intelligence.
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> The ingenious people that are always right are invariably courteous, polite and a pleasure to be around. My experience in both academia and business was/is very different: to those who are insanely competent, you typically had (in some sense) to "prove" by diligence and intelligence that you are "worthy" their time. I can understand that attitude really well: otherwise a lot of people would insanely waste their time, and the respective people would get nowhere.
- breuleux 3y agoArrogant smartasses often put more effort into having their genius recognized than they do in being correct, and that often... works. Loud and aggressive people take as much credit as they can and they make sure everyone knows, so they generally appear more competent than the rest. Sometimes they really are outstanding on their own (e.g. Linus Torvalds), but just as often, it turns out that yes, they are highly competent, but the true insights actually come from their underlings.
- peddling-brink 3y agoOr perhaps those traits are unrelated? Smart people can be assholes, they can also be excellent humans.