Being Smart May Hurt You!
Intelligence is always considered an advantage in any human’s life, but have you ever considered it among the things that can hurt a person?
Yes, you have read it correctly! It may sound crazy, but it might be true.
Intelligence is always considered an advantage in any human’s life, but have you ever considered it among the things that can hurt a person? There are some situations where being smart will not make your life easier. For now, let’s assume that being smart won’t help us for a moment, and then we will catch up with the necessary steps we need to take to enhance this situation.
Disclaimer:
This article is my thoughts and ideas and should not be considered scientific facts. Although I have researched and studied a lot in the article’s subject area, I have not run a test on people to prove my thoughts, and I do not have a University degree in Psychology or other related programs.
Our Mindset
Suppose a child grows up in a situation where having control over others is considered valuable. In that case, the chances are that when the child becomes an adult, he/she will continue manipulating the people around him/her. Not because they are mean or something, but because they think it is the right thing to do. Our mindset might be the most effective internal parameter of our life. Our mindset determines the way we live. It creates a code that we want to live by that. So improving our mindset, however hard it might be, is essential to take over our day passes.
Wanting and willing to change our mindset might be one the trickiest things we ever face in our lifetime, but as Gandhi said:
Be the change you wish to see in the world! -Gandhi
Knowing Or Doing?
Once you know you have a specific gift or talent; it may bring you either a burden to bear or an ease in your life. Either way, more is needed if you stick with knowing it. Knowing is one thing that can not move you forward alone. The action does, though. Ferdowsi, an ancient Iranian poet, says:
Greatness is not all about talking. Two hundred speeches are not the same as half an action. -Ferdowsi
Sometimes, the more intelligent a person is, the more passive/aggressive they become. By knowing the answer, our problems will not fade away. We only scratch the surface of resolving an issue by knowing it. Taking proper action, on the other hand, does the miracle. A 15-minute routine every day will do the miracle after a year.
I am reducing the gap between what I know and what I do. I know that my knowledge will always be at least a couple of steps ahead of my actions for the rest of my life. From my perspective, reducing the gap between my knowledge and actions is necessary in each person’s life.
Procrastinating
Being a smart person can help a person handle things quickly and in a short time, but it also has a huge disadvantage. The ability to handle tasks quickly gives us confidence that we can do almost everything quickly. This ability may cause us to practice this behavior of procrastinating tasks and be confident about finishing them properly.
In reality, procrastinating tasks does not work as we thought. Some tasks, no matter how simple they may look, require a proper amount of time.
Judging and Making Decisions
Every moment of our lives, we are stocked with judging events happening in our lives. To make the best decision, we need to encompass the circumstances that affect our lives. We need to decide what book will be the best to read.
Judging is inevitable in our lives. This is different than the judgment we all may refer to, judging people and evaluating their actions by knowing almost nothing about their lives. That behavior is unhealthy for us and creates an intolerable atmosphere between the two people.
Thinking For Other People
A few years back, when I was at college, one night, one of my friends named Farzan, told me that “if something is OK with you, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it is the same for another person”. You evaluate the events in your life based on your mindset and your POV of the world. It may work for you, but you should not expect other people to have the same POV as you do. We must try not to make even the smallest decisions for another individual. As close as we get to another person, the amount of thinking and making decisions for them rapidly grows, and that’s OK as we now know them a lot more than before, and we are acquainted with their mindset.
In the most radical scenario, imagine something is pretty dull for you, and you expect that to be true for everyone else. When you realize it’s not the same, it may be pretty bumm, ha? Embrace yourself for that. Get ready for the ugly and bitter truth thrown at you for how dumb and stupid some people are. This will help you enhance your connection with people.
Take dictators as an example; they do not realize the true meaning of life, love, liberty, and freedom, so they take it from the people. I know there are some benefits for them, but if they truly knew how much a person’s life matters deep inside themselves, would they do the same?
You may think of something as an obvious matter, but some people don’t, and being smart makes it hard for an individual to think otherwise. It will take the opportunity to gain some benefit from the situation.
Different mindsets brings different concerns.
