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Let me try and make the point that this article should have made. Being smart and being wise are two different things. Intelligence/smarts is like CPU speed.

Let me try and make the point that this article should have made. Being smart and being wise are two different things. Intelligence/smarts is like CPU speed. How quickly you can pull in new information, process it, and spit out an answer. Wisdom, however, can be much slower. It ferments, cooks, and mixes information and experience. It's a slow process and pretty much all people are capable of it (to different degrees). Often, smart people dismiss those who take longer to process things because they think it's about processing speed. That's a big mistake to make.

gadders 14y ago
Or, to take your computer analogy, having a super fast CPU is no good if you can't interface with other parts of the system. It's very rare in any setting where people can achieve stuff on their own. You may have a brain the size of a planet, but at some stage you will need to work through other people, or get their help to realise an objective. Having social skills and good manners, as well as a big brain, will help with this.