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   GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 12:16:41 JST GeePawHill

   I call'em 60-percenters. Those guys -- it's mostly but not entirely guys -- who think that, because they're smarter than the average bear, they are ever and always the smartest person in the room.

   And the ones whose inter-generational wealth and privilege has boosted them to success? They're the worst.

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     Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 12:16:40 JST Kim Scheinberg

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     @GeePawHill
     "I never met a person who was genuinely smart who didn't know that there were rooms in which they were the *dumbest* person."

     The smartest people I know actively seek out rooms where they themselves are in the bottom quartile. And they also recognize that there are lots of different ways to measure 'smart'

     As I age, I more and more see 'clever' as rather overrated

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     GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 12:16:41 JST GeePawHill

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     Every genuinely smart person understands that their thinking talent isn't general, it's specific to the contexts in which they usually operate.

     I never met a person who was genuinely smart who didn't know that there were rooms in which they were the *dumbest* person.

     60-percenters *always* think that their capabilities are generic.

     90-percenters *never* do.