What kind of smart is really smart? Do you think reading books can really make you smart?

I think it can make you smart in a different way. I mean, being street-smart is another thing! And it's something I'd wanna be. LOL. Naturally smart with life! Being smart with wisdom and experiences is another thing. And being smart from all the facts youve read from books is also another thing.. So what kind of smart is really smart?|||Smart is when you have the wherewith all to utilize your Intelligence to the best possible advantage...|||You're right to recognise the differences here, and for the most part we have the language to define these differences





Intelligence - A measure usually defined by the controversial IQ (Intelligence Quotient) Test. This describes how efficiently your brain works, akin to the hardware capabilities of a computer, memory capacity and data storage and retrieval. It helps with logical process and problem solving, but presides over and affects all the other factors.


Perception - A measure of how much information the brain is able to process and store over a short period.


Wisdom - How much information you are able to store, it also has connotations of having an ability to use that information with good judgement.


Smartness - I think has something to do with how much you spent on your suit and whether you shaved etc





The truth is that to be 'really smart' you need a dollop of all the capabilities of the brain together, thers no point knowing a lot of facts and being book smart if you do not have the intelligence to use the information effectively. There's no point being highly intelligent if you use that capability to remember the diet regimes of every celebrity.





Remember street smarts will only be useful during your youth, you would be wise to spurn it and concentrate on developing other aspects of your intelligence.|||Smart is a goofy word. It's ambiguous. It mostly means intelligent, I think, but can also mean knowledgeable, which is different. It may even mean intuitive, such as street smart.





But anyway, reading books cannot increase your IQ (intelligence) but certainly it can add to your knowledge. Also, some people snort at "book knowledge", but it is usually people who are not so handy with reading who do that. Book knowledge is perfectly well valid and useful - such as how to fold your parachute or calculate whether the beams will hold up a bridge or not. Some things don't lend themselves well to trial and error.|||Reading good books adds to knowledge.... and of course, knowledge, skill and intelligence do improve the efficiency of smartness...... nevertheless, I think being smart is more about practical wisdom in real life situations..... it's really related to judgment, choices and timing, so that desired results are maximised with the least possible efforts, compromise and means.... a way with people and situations so that positive outcome is ensured even when the available capability may be a bit short. The smart housewife manages to provide best satisfaction in the household with minimum budget and fuss. The smart subordinate pleases and satisfies the boss beyond his intrinsic capabilities and actual rigor of work.



In my books, though, the real smartness ought to relate to determining our true aims and fixing the right goals in life, so as to maximize happiness as those goals are achieved and minimize regrets on what was not aimed for or left out. This is what really matters in our life and this is the kind of smartness that pays the best. The corollary to this is that the real knowledge is about ourselves and the true skill is about how we handle our own mind.|||Books are infinitely important to improving your intellect, but that is different from being savvy, that is learnt from just being, experiencing life and making mistakes.


There's always practical acumen too, which generally can only be produced through practise and "being handy"


The problem is Smart covers so much of what people want to pigeon whole their particular ability into, as in Street Smart and I've even heard Art Smart, which are just to savvy and Creative.


But for Intellect needs books|||What's really smart is if you can read a book which tells you how to do something...build a widget say, and then you practice it and can actually do it. And then you almost get mugged taking the book back to the library, but you convince the hooligans to let you go, and you agree to teach them how to make widgets, and then you start a company and make a Brazilian bucks. Book learning, social smarts, street smarts, practical expertise, money smart....that's smart!|||To know wisdom is to understand why you have been put into this world. If you know your own self is this not sufficient wisdom? If your mind is filled with technicalities and information, to what end does it serve you or this world. It depends on your purpose in this world. What is needed for ones life if you know what it is you are trying to become or acomplish. I mean keep your learning to that which you are a part. I baker does not need to know how to assemble a fusion reaactor. nor does a physicist need to know how to play the violin. Each thought has one proper place at one proper time|||Everyone has different opinions in regards to this but in my opinion, people who have accomplished things in life with their smartness are the really smart ones. They are able to really use their knowledge and brain power for greater good, such as the nobel prize winners and Steven Hawking.|||Really smart is knowing so many facts, histories, wisdoms, stories, characters, etc that they are street smart. You can learn facts and street smarts from books, so I think books could make you really smart, as long as you read a variety of books.|||I think it is a combination of them all.......someone told me the best smart is the smart you can't get from books...the one that is your Gut instinct or intuition...real life living is the best experience but you can apply what you have learned in the books to make you react and take action in your life to better it make it easier etc....|||No amount of irritating high school novelty regarding "everyone is like super special" is going to change how you score on the IQ test. You're either an imbecile or you're not. Having affinities with certain skills does not qualify as intelligence. Street-smarts, experience, and knowledge are all acquired skills. It doesn't matter if you're retarded but can play piano beautifully. You're still retarded.|||Smart is having the serenity to accept the things you can not change.


The courage to change the things that you can,


and the wisdom to know the difference. %26lt;}:-})|||There are lots of types of smart, like another answerer wrote. I would also add deeper-understanding-of-nature-smart, like with people such as Darwin and perhaps Tesla.|||There are a lot of ways people can be smart.


1. Book smart


2. Music smart


3. Athletic or sport smart


4. Math smart


5. Street smart


6. Building or construction smart


7. Money smart|||I think smartness of the person can only be judged when he is put into some sort of spontaneous test|||yes.|||Well the way I see things goes like this.


You can be academically smart - such as mathematics and knowledge in the sciences and so on.


You can be creatively smart - Such as in art, music, writing and poetry and so on.


Spiritually smart - Seeing past the lies of the religious (I personally state).


There are some other kinds which I can't necessarily be bothered adding.





About two years ago I was a complete fool, right, and then I began some kind of journey for knowledge. I actually sort of educated myself on a lot of things (of course using legitimate sources and so on). I am now quite fond on the English language and it's limitless wonders, in which I use most of my spare time exploring (reading books, writing poetry and so on) and I actually gained a lot of intellect. Academically I'm a retard, I suck at math and science, and also I severely suck at sports. This 'quest for knowledge' as I prefer to call it, was and is (as I'm still on it, we always are) far different than I expected it to be. When I speak I no longer sound like an illiterate bigot people of my age are generally known to be.


Also, in seventh grade about six years ago I started learning to play the guitar. I was your typical young guitarist who liked rock music and what was seen in the rock scene. But now I've actually gathered quite a talent (if you don't mind be boasting) and I've opened my mind to new genres such as folk, indie, electro, progressive rock (which I prefer to that ACDC rock n' roll bull ****) and many more. I write many songs myself and I also write many short stories and even philosophical essays and so on. I ignore the **** they teach me in school though. Modern education is useless.


Oh and in addition, my growing knowledge on the English language grants me superiority in arguments as I am able to twist words and aspects into confusing statements that leave people thinking that I obviously have a wider knowledge on the topic, even when my point it entirely invalid. Most people of my age these days (which is sixteen years old) are confused by words that exceed an eighth letter.


You're only getting smarter. Read those books. Start a 'quest' such as mine. I am currently looking into spirituality among many other indescribable things. It gets frustrating.