I am convinced that 'smart' is something else entirely.
There is an awful lot of brainpower dedicated to skills like walking into a party where you know noone, meeting with annoyed customers, or even polite conversation, etc.
There is an awful lot of brainpower dedicated to skills like walking into a party where you know noone, meeting with annoyed customers, or even polite conversation, etc.
What I meant by smart and what I got from the original article is someone who is a systemic thinker who likes to categorize things. That's a very valuable skill.
Learning to get along with people who don't naturally do that (most people) is a skill you can expedite by using systemic thinking and figuring out how emotion-based conversations go :)