One thing I've learned in life is that "Intelligence" does not equate to "Wisdom".
Ergo, someone can be the smartest person on the planet, but if that MFer doesn't know how to pour piss of a boot, what good is he? Unfortunately, I've known several people like that in my 56 years and just shake my head each time at how much a waste it is. If they could stop, just for a moment, and apply common sense to some of that intelligence they'd be a serious asset to the world around them.
I've told this story here before: I went to high school with this really smart girl. She left most people in the dust, test-wise and grade-wise.
She was in my advanced chemistry class and sat beside me in the lab. One day she set a hot crucible on a piece of notebook paper, instead of on the hot pad, and caught the paper on fire. The paper quickly blazed up...and she just froze solid. I grabbed a pair of tongs and picked up the paper, threw it in the water trough in front of us, and turned on the water to extinguish it.
The first words out of her mouth were -- and I kid you not -- "How did you think to do that?"
One thing I've learned in life is that "Intelligence" does not equate to "Wisdom".
Ergo, someone can be the smartest person on the planet, but if that MFer doesn't know how to pour piss of a boot, what good is he? Unfortunately, I've known several people like that in my 56 years and just shake my head each time at how much a waste it is. If they could stop, just for a moment, and apply common sense to some of that intelligence they'd be a serious asset to the world around them.
I think we can just drop the word common and just call it “sense”.
Touche'
I've told this story here before: I went to high school with this really smart girl. She left most people in the dust, test-wise and grade-wise.
She was in my advanced chemistry class and sat beside me in the lab. One day she set a hot crucible on a piece of notebook paper, instead of on the hot pad, and caught the paper on fire. The paper quickly blazed up...and she just froze solid. I grabbed a pair of tongs and picked up the paper, threw it in the water trough in front of us, and turned on the water to extinguish it.
The first words out of her mouth were -- and I kid you not -- "How did you think to do that?"
A perfect case-in-point if i ever heard one. Yes, its exactly that.