I've seen smart people all through my lifelane. I've seen people who call them smart. I've seen people who try to show them smart. I've seen people who are smart.
Not given enough space, you are likely to get lost figuring out, among all the above.
I've logged some keys which might help you find the real ones.
- When somebody's smart, it shows.
- When the smartness overshows, stop. He is not.
- Where you find many _I-never-knew-about-that-stuff_s, there is someone smart there.
- When asked a tech-doubt and the guy explains it close to awesome, with all those jargons and whatTheHellareTheseAndWhyINeverHeardTheseTerms terms, stop. He is not.
- That guy who never socializes beyond himself and his computer, and keeps brooding in public, he is probably not that smart.
- That guy who keeps preaching out things he knows, so the world might enlight, mostly when not given the chance, stop. He is poorer than the previous.
- Timetabled people are seldom smart. Never look down on someone who never wears a wrist watch.
- When somebody listens patiently to what smart people say, he is trying to be one. He will.
- When somebody questions every operational-possibility of an average idea, stop. He is trying to show himself as one. He is not.
- Smart people do. Others tell they would have done it themselves.
The list is not an accurate one, however might split them aside in most cases. Smartness is not knowing everything. Smartness is knowing how much we don't know yet.