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The curse of smart people is actually modesty, because they know how little they know. It's hard to be confident and sell stuff with modesty.
by PSeitz 12y ago
The curse of smart people is actually modesty, because they know how little they know. It's hard to be confident and sell stuff with modesty.
- _mulder_ 12y agoThis does seem to make sense, the more aware of your environment you are (the more you know), the more modest you become when you realise you don't know it all. I hardly think modesty is a curse.
- 3minus1 12y agoI'm tired of this meme; it is way overstated. You could just as easily say "the curse of smart people is arrogance, because they know just how stupid the people around them are." I can assure you, I've known plenty of incredibly smart people who were quite arrogant.
- dreamweapon 12y agoDepends how you define "smart" then. Viewed differently, nominal smarts + arrogance = lack of big-picture smarts = at the end of the day, just not all that smart.
- mreiland 12y agoOne of the absolute worst attributes of smart people is their willingness to argue over the semantics of a word rather than simply accept the overall premise being communicated by the other person.
- dreamweapon 12y agoExcept when, as in this case, the underlying semantic confusion of their premise (or how they articulated it) has a lot to do with why it was wrong in the first place.