Bit of an odd question this. First you ask (allegedly) smart people what it's like to be smart followed by a point which tells us you do not consider yourself s

Bit of an odd question this. First you ask (allegedly) smart people what it's like to be smart followed by a point which tells us you do not consider yourself smart enough to do something. Looks to me like you have something on your mind, or that you are discovering the moral responsibility that having a deeper insight might bring. When you get to this level (not hard) it's an individual choice though. You can use it for good, evil, or plain vanilla self-preservation. Apart from "meds", I am not aware of any other way to improve your intelligence in everyday life. Experience, learning and age support your knowledge base directly - which in turn has the effect of making others think that you are intelligent - but those aspects don't necessarily mean you are "smart". In fact you'd be hard pressed to find two people that agree on what the definition of "being smart" is. Smart can mean knowing when a fight is about to happen in a bar, and stepping back, making sure you still have your drinks. Smart can mean knowing what's wrong with a car motor just by listening to it. Smart can mean knowing when to pass, and when to score yourself. Smart rarely means sitting on your arse all night debugging the same piece of code. That's when you start to imagine that a better person could have spotted the bug right away, or that there are coders who can write bugless code. And that's when the doubt creeps in.