It's almost as if some people's brain space is so limited that the more book smarts they pick up, the more common sense they lose.
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Yes, some people are "book smart," but greatly lacking in common sense.  They just don't realize that there is more to life than what's on the books, and this causes a hinderence of personal relations with other people.
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Not everyone is able to think in the abstract! Studies of left and right brain dominance\nshow some understand concepts, (left). Some people understand better when we "draw" a picture for them, (right)!
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Most people on here are severly lacking in intelligence and a sense of imagination.
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sometimes smart people are just book smart and not street smart which is what most people call common sense. If you haven't read it in a book then you don't know how to solve it or do it. Make sense?
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In your case there would seem to be a correlation because realising how little you really know is one sign of wisdom. However there are people who were young fools and now they are old fools so you can't always draw a correlation between age and wisdom.
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Because that isn't true.\n\nThe more you know the smarter are your decisions.\n\nThe more you know, the more you know.
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when someone thinks differently from you - that is not necessarily an indication that they lack intelligence.\n\nin your case it may be a strong indication that in fact they have some.
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They can learn alot, but they usually don't listen because they already know everything
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People in their 20's and early thirties brains have not developed fully
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A lot of people just can't think outside of the books!
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Different people have different ambitions and they are not always in sync with that of organization, hence all these problems. Basically people are plain stupid, simple.
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Simple people are afraid of what they don't know and don't understand. Isn't it so much easier to go to church and swallow down all that brainwashing that they feed them? \nOf course it is - it doesn't require thinking with their own heads, it doesn't require reading and learning and researching and making mistakes and developing themselves...\nThey just get taught a pretty story and told it is the only truth. What an ideal world, isn't it?! Too bad it's ot that simple. \n\nPeople have been deceived and brainwashed through centuries and millenia. We can't expect them to suddenly start thinking. Organised forms of religion have caused much too much damage by burning everyone who dared to ponder another side of truth...
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no, only a few people are smart. Most of us did not discover anything new, though of anything new. We just learn whatever ppl thought up and most of us couldn't even follow the ideas becoz we are not able to think logically.
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This assumes that people were brighter in the past.\n Which they just were not.   Hence, Hitler ; Stalin;Mao;\nKim il Sung.   To name but a few. \n I have found that those who think everyone else is not as smart as themselves, are usualy quite thick and ignorant.\n\n                              Victor
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i think i've learnt that;\n1. there's a lot of hard questions out there\n2.i'm not as smart as i like to think i am\n3.i'm not as smart as i look\n4.and when it get's too difficult i turn my pc off and watch the tv
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Some people can't see past ignorance.
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Because intelligence can be faked.