If you don’t think you’re smart, you need to read this.

People who call themselves non-analytical often say that they couldn’t do or understand something and that it’s over their head. Nonsense.

When supposedly smarter people do or say something that’s over your head, do you think they were born that way? Of course not.

They reached that point through education and hard work. It wouldn’t be over your head if you did the same.

Analytical intelligence is easy to show off, but other kinds of intelligence are just as important but more subtle.

There are also many things you know that the other person doesn’t. I don’t care how smart they are; there are useful things you know that they have no idea about, and they’d need your help with them. Intelligence is multifaceted.

Just because you haven't yet developed the kind of intelligence that the other person has, doesn't mean that you wouldn't be able to develop it, nor does it mean you lack other remarkable forms of intelligence.

In some niche domain, you are the smartest person in the world.

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