I don't think you can be too smart for your own good, but there might be a confusion about what "smart" means. Most people get the difference between intellige

I don't think you can be too smart for your own good, but there might be a confusion about what "smart" means. Most people get the difference between intelligence, and knowledge, but there is something in between: technique. And this is the part that confuses most people - it seems kind of like intelligence, but really it's more like knowledge. You may know a technique, you may be able to use it, and still have no idea why it works, why it's used, and where it's no longer applicable.