People Point Out 30 Low-Key Signs Of A Highly Intelligent Person

Things re more fun if they are presented in a fun way, there isn't the pressure of grades and you aren't being forced to do it.

Lots of things are fun when you're not forced to do them, and of course after school you can choose the subject and how deep you wish to go.

I realized it when I started attending schools run by humans and not clergy...

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Omg that's SO true !!!

Learning begins when filling up norms stops. Schools are all about norms.

Learning is (usually) only fun when you WANT to learn the topic.

Agreed. The social aspect of school killed that for me, the learning part was fun. I just didn't realize.

Yes!! I started to love learning when I wasn't being forced and was able to find my style of learning

mmmmm

that's why adults always wanna be kids (or at least thats what i have heard from adults but i dont think so)

It is, isn't it?

Same-😂

I work for the NHS, I can confirm this. I used to wonder how people so smart can be so stupid. Then I realised they just have very focused talents.

Working for years as a nurse, it is amazing how many doctors fit that description (especially the specialists)

You comment is making my day!

Common sense is not the same as intelligence. You can always improve and learn and gain more knowledge . But you can't teach common sense.

Agreed, I worked in the Service departments of some high line car dealerships, and my experience is that those with the most high-powered/high-skilled professions can't find their a** on a phone booth when it comes to the workings of a mere auto...

Absolutely true. Medical Doctors have been focused on one thing for most of their lives, at least from high school on. The years/decade that most people are discovering who they are and what they believe in diverse areas, MDs/DOs are highly focused on getting into med school, surviving med school (many suicides), securing a match/residency, surviving that, then fellowship in some cases. It's a brutal track and takes up their adult *formative years*. Few develop social skills and many do become arrogant in the process even though they are very insecure beneath it all. It's quite a head game for them as well as patients. The whole system is broken. Pamela Wible MD has done a lot of research and speaking about physician suicides which top the list of all professions, except veterinarians, IIRC.

That is so freaking true.. Not all of them but yes!

Yeah, I find that so annoying. Sometimes we want personal experiences or we don't want to scour through many google searches to find the answer. If people don't want to answer then they should just scroll past.

BP is getting to be less friendly than it used to be. It's snarkier and it's easier to get downvoted for expressing a different point of view when the echo chamber gets fired up.

I don't know why people get so aerated about being asked, and snap back why don't you just Google it. Ah, I know, it's because they don't know the answer. If they did, we would not escape their wisdom....

In this day and age, "Google it" is definitely no guarantee you're going to get a correct (or even worthwhile) answer, just an 'answer'

As a librarian who was taught to do internet research, there's a great value to asking questions of people directly. There's so many things that can only be learned by lived experience and somebody real might be able to explain something in a more human way than any text on the subject. People are wonderful sources of information. Shame it's illegal to shelve them.

That's when you respond with "Ah, guess you don't actually know what you're talking about after all".

Sometimes the hardest thing about googling something is knowing how to phrase the search request. Especially when you're looking for something that has a bunch of different connotations. This is especially true when you're a software developer. Too many frameworks and tools have themes and use names that are popular in other ways.

it's more fun to answer the unasked questions

And I thought social media was about communication. Shows what I know huh?

Its because they them selves dont know the answer so they say "google it " to appear that they are so smart they just dont have time for people who they view less than them ... Chances are good that your question makes them feel dumb and their fragile egos can not take it... Actually see number 5 on the list

Lauren, thanks for sharing your thoughts on this subject. I am able to empathize through my interpretation of your words, which convey to me, that you are having feelings of frustration, due to the sarcastic replies that you and others receive from respondents who are clearly intolerant, ignorant, and not capable, and/or willing to accept any differing forms of question related communication, aside from their own, and the possible reasons for those differences. It clearly appears to me, that these needlessly sarcastic remarks are also, a by-product that stems from poor manners, lack of basic social etiquette skills, and inadequate understanding and use of more recently introduced rules for communicating appropriately on the various online arenas where personal differences of every sort, are encouraged to be displayed, and not ridiculed, shamed, or shunned. Lauren, it is my hope that you and I, and all the others with similar opinions, are in the majority on this most basic human right.

Same! If I am asking a person instead of Google, there is a reason.

Intelligent people FIND answers. Sometimes that means asking questions, sometimes that means googling it, sometimes that means...reading a book. There is no reason NOT to google something if you want to know an answer. You just have to be smart enough to look at the source of google's answers and decide if they are trustworthy or not.

Depends what it is. Basic definitions or info are an easy Google search and expecting someone else to do that work for you can be seen as lazy. Asking for opinions or personal experiences is quite different.

Well sometime it is nice to hear how the professor explain it because sometime they can put more into it by their experience or knowledge. I love asking questions depending on where I am. For example of I am in a museum I always have a bunch of thing I want answers to. I keep it to one or two. But in Collage the class was more about something I did not understand and looking at google would not help. For example a math class. But classes are expensive and I am not going to keep my mouth shut if I really have a question I need to ask just because some kid wants to get out early. I think people view in education changes over time. When you first go to college it is about just learning to pass the test. Older folk look at as a dream to expand and better themselves.

yes same why cant epople just answer if they know or just not stop to admit they dont

Totally get this, yet~ We were guilty of this when I worked at Barnes and Noble. In our defense, ppl would come to the customer service desk, asking for the customer service desk... Much of our book slinging was interrupted by "I'm looking for this book... It's red.". Last time I used "Google it" on a customer was when an elder woman accused me of saying something dirty. I have learnt. 😂 Keep taking your risky ventures!!

Don't ask random strangers. Don't ask random strangers on the internet. Especially on a social media site. But the fact that you ask is itself a good sign.

Google doesn’t give good answers most of the time anyways. I tell my sister to Google things when she doesn’t know bc I may know but I’ll just make it worse by explaining. I’m a terrible explainer. Or I tell her to Google if I don’t know. I don’t tell her to Google bc I’m lazy, I just don’t want to make her more confused.

Beyond this, asking questions can lead to great conversations. 10 years ago I could ask what a show is and people would be genuinely interested and discuss it with me. Now I'm told even in person to just Google it and watch it on Hulu and that's it. Ain't no fun no more.

I know how you feel. I like to know what other people know because often times, it comes with a good anecdote.

The visual example given is not someone asking a question online but rather in an in-person setting. Of course the answer online is to look it up yourself first but again that's not what they're talking about here. I do love the site let me Google that for you. It's a sarcastic a-hole's dream.

Try being upfront in what you're done, withholding info, is kind of the opposite of intelligent. Kind of a control freak thing to do.

Intelligent people have already done the research, for the most part, and hopefully not on Google where info is very censored. DDG is only slightly better. I'm not sure what the best search engine is. Anybody know?! 🤣

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As it Google actually knew anything.

Is that a sign ?

See #1, there's a reason this one is at #3

The trick is to ask the right question. Say you had a job interview, at the end of it, they might ask if there's anything you want to know. You don't ask about the salary, the holidays and the coffee-breaks, if you want the job.

It's hard for some people. I was always expected to be right and called out when I was wrong, so it's sometimes very difficult for me to admit my mistakes. Not that I don't try.

This is something I find to be a blessing and a curse. Since I was a kid, I have ALWAYS apologized and admitted I was wrong when I have been. But many people will use it against you ("you were wrong this, this, and this time...So you are probably wrong now."). But I truly believe it takes a great amount of bravery and character to admit you are wrong and apologize to people. I'm a natural problem solver, though--so if the price I pay for a clean conscious is that people dismiss me when I DO have valid input, that's THEIR loss not mine. I've seen this happen where I work as a DOO of a professional business--I've clearly seen issues on the horizon and warned our partners numerous times. It took the fourth time of it happening (because I'm a woman and they are all white men who grew up very privileged) and them losing hundreds of thousands of dollars before they finally realized they needed to trust my judgement more than their own. Frustrating as hell, tho.

It's easy for me too, but I noticed some people are just too proud to "be wrong". And when these people witness yourself being wrong, they act as if you're humiliated and feel extreme pleasure from it, while really you're being super indifferent at worst, and glad you learnt something new at best.

Same. We are not gods; we are imperfect humans. Admitting a mistake and being corrected is part of growing as a person, imo. I hope to still be growing and evolving until the day I die.

That proves that you are intelligent.

me too

You mispelled "apologize"..lol

That. YES. As a sci geek, this is what grates me SO MUCH about so many people who take very strong positions about things they hardly know anything about. Most TRUE scientists admit they don't know, then go and research all angles of a subject and try to forge an informed opinion. They are also willing to hear any and all FACTS that may either refute their position or require a review of it. And that's where you see ignorance in full bloom. As the saying goes: the more you know, the more you realize how little you know"--which is why grossly ignorant people think they know EVERYTHING. (aka "I HAVE ALL THE BEST FACTS!" 😏)