Monday, November, 28, 2022 –All smart persons are always or tend to be the quiet people in the room. Reasons could vary depending on the side of the coin one is looking at this catchy topic.
Everybody has an answer to it depending on how they look at the glass-full and glass half-full analogy. However, the correct answer is something else.
Philosopher and Liberal professional, Travis Pumett concedes that no one is giving the correct explanation on this but goes a head to agree that smart persons are always less interactive or talkative. This, he says is their nature.
Through a social media discussion of August 28, Pummet argued that it’s because quiet people realize early in life that being too smart becomes a social obstacle so they downplay their intelligence to please the rest.
The philosopher adds that highly-gifted children are known to struggle socially in their teens due to this situation and, to fit in with the rest, they have to cool down and watch.
Smart people will often develop a habit of keenly picking their battles because if they contributed to every conversation, they may outshine everyone else with their intelligence and could be seen as a know-it-all.
For many smart people, it’s hard to say anything at all without coming off as reminding everyone else of the disparity in intelligence.
“I believe there’s some research that does show that being mentally superior is a social liability in a way than being physically superior. In other words, it’s easier to be an athlete around non-athlete than it is to be a brainiac around non-brainiacs. Someone being too intelligent is instinctually felt as intimidating and stuck up,” he further reasons.
For some smart people, they can’t really hide their intelligence very well. It’s built into how they speak and the way they structure their every sentence, the cadence they use, their vocabulary etc.
In those cases, a smart person might choose to listen more and talk less so their intelligence is not dominating their social circles. This is done just to make sure their intelligence isn’t towering the rest.
And due to this, they will always learn a lot from their talkative peers.