You may think that you are the smartest, but who doesn't want to be even smarter? Of course, I also want to be smarter than others, so I try to find out who I can learn from. But how to determine whether a person is smart or not?

Here are the signs of really smart people

1. They don't talk as much as you because they are smart enough to listen.

2. Smart people know many other things besides what they specialize in. A broad mind is a great gift, but it needs constant stimulation and interest in what others are doing.

3. They combine work, home and personal interests and never deviate from the good old principle that says that you need to properly balance all aspects of life. Such people are 100% focused on their activities and take every measure to make sure that their life is completely streamlined.

4. They use social media. Not always, but in most cases. This is not only an additional chance to hear something new, but also an opportunity to feed your brain.

5. Even when things are not going well, they keep smiling. Smart people never fall into despair. Their brain helpfully offers all the benefits that can be derived from the situation that has developed.

6. A smart person knows they are most likely the smartest person in the room, but doesn't take the time to prove it. Instead, he tries to make the rest of the people in the room feel that they are worth a lot too.

7. If smart people perform the duties of a leader, they will do everything to make others smarter, more popular and sociable.

8. They hide their abilities until they are needed. Smart people see no need to show everything they can, because they don't want to prove anything to anyone.

But what is most important...

9. They don't necessarily have an expensive education. You may never know until you look at their resumes.

10. Smart people will never, under any circumstances, make you look stupid, even if it's very easy to do. They know that the only thing they will achieve in this case is to show themselves in a bad light.

How to understand that you are a smart person? For many, the question presented may seem provocative. Indeed, smart people differ diametrically from stupid people. The only problem is that the first type of personality is used to doubting their own abilities.

How to understand that a person is smart: behavior

solution of problems;
achievements of goals;
Creative skills.

How to understand if you are smart? To do this, you just need to analyze the features of your behavior.

Solution of problems

Smart people strive to close emerging difficulties as quickly as possible. They immediately start looking for ideas to get out of the situation. If possible methods are found, they are immediately implemented.

Achievements of goals

Smart people set themselves only realistic goals. Soaring in the clouds is almost uncharacteristic for them. No, they have a big dream or goal, only they break it down into several sub-points in advance.

Creative skills

Often, individuals gifted with the mind are also distinguished by a pronounced creative potential. They play music and write poetry. There are actually many options. Well, a talented person is talented in everything.

How to define the mind: habits

Of course, you also need to carefully look at the habits of such individuals. In this case, the answer to the question of how to understand whether a person is smart depends on his hobbies and ways of free time. Options include:

cultural life;
frequent loneliness;
puzzle solving.

Yes, that's exactly how it is. Of course, the list does not end there, but the elements presented are the most typical and characteristic.

Cultural life

In this case, the quality of the choice of films, books, movies allows you to determine the mind. Stupid people often just do not get involved in any creativity. They are alien to the work of artists or unusual literary works.

Often lonely

People with a developed intellect do not shy away from and are not afraid of loneliness. For them, this is just an opportunity to be alone with themselves, once again to think in a calm atmosphere.

Puzzle solving

A favorite pastime of many smart people. They just love logic puzzles and challenging puzzles. This activity can take hours. Naturally, such an approach additionally trains the brain.

Results

Absolutely anyone can develop intelligence. There is nothing complicated in this in principle. You just need to devote more time to reading books, watching educational programs.

Ivan Maslyukov

Director, entrepreneur. Creator of the international network of urban games Encounter.

1. A smart person talks with a purpose

At a meeting, by phone, in a chat. Conversation is a tool to achieve a goal.

Stupid people talk for the sake of talking. So they indulge their laziness when they are busy. Or they struggle with boredom and idleness in their free time.

2. Feels comfortable being alone

A smart man is not bored with his thoughts. He understands that important events and discoveries can take place within a person.

Stupid people, on the contrary, do their best to avoid loneliness: remaining alone with themselves, they are forced to observe their own emptiness. Therefore, it seems to them that something important and meaningful can only happen around them. They follow the news, tend to companies and hangouts, check social networks a hundred times a day.

3. Trying to keep balance

• Between external experience (movies, books, stories of friends) and own experience.
• Between believing in himself and knowing that he could be wrong.
• Between ready knowledge (templates) and new knowledge (thinking).
• Between an intuitive hint from the subconscious and an accurate logical analysis of limited data.

Stupid people easily fall into one extreme.

4. Strives to expand the range of his perception

A smart person wants to achieve accuracy in sensations, feelings, thoughts. He understands that the whole consists of the smallest details, therefore he is so attentive to trifles, shades, to the small.

Stupid people are content with average stamps.

5. Knows many "languages"

A smart person communicates with architects through buildings, with writers through books, with designers through interfaces, with artists through paintings, with composers through music, with a janitor through a clean yard. He knows how to communicate with people through what they do.

Foolish people understand only the language of words.

6. A smart person finishes what they start.

The foolish one stops as soon as he starts, or in the middle, or almost finishes, on the assumption that what he has done may turn out to be unclaimed and will not bring any benefit to anyone.

7. Understands that a huge part of the world around was invented and created by people

After all, a shoe, concrete, a bottle, a sheet of paper, a light bulb, a window once did not exist. Taking advantage of what was invented and created, he wants to give something of himself to humanity in gratitude. He happily creates himself. And when he uses what others have done, he gladly gives money for it.

Stupid people, when they pay for a thing, a service, an object of art, do it without gratitude and with regret that there is less money.

8. Follows an information diet

A smart person has a memory of facts and data that are not needed to solve current problems. At the same time, studying the world, he seeks, first of all, to understand the causal relationships between events, phenomena, things.

Stupid people consume information indiscriminately and without trying to understand the relationships.

9. Understands that nothing can be appreciated without context.

Therefore, he does not rush to conclusions and assessments of any things, events, phenomena, until he analyzes the totality of all circumstances and details. Smart very rarely criticizes, condemns.

A stupid person easily evaluates things, events, phenomena, without delving into the details and circumstances. He takes pleasure in criticizing and condemning, thus, as it were, feeling superior to that which is the object of his criticism.

10. Considers the authority of the one who has earned his authority

The smart one never forgets that even if everyone is of the same opinion, they can be wrong.

Fools recognize an opinion as correct if it is supported by the majority. It is enough for them that many other people consider a certain person to be an authority.

11. Very selective about books and films.

A smart person does not care at all when and by whom the book was written or when the film was made. Priority is content and meaning.

A stupid person prefers trendy books and movies.

12. Has a passion for self-development and growth

In order to grow, a smart person says to himself: "I'm not good enough, I can become better."

Stupid, seeking to exalt themselves in the eyes of others, humiliate others and, thus, humiliate themselves.

13. Not afraid to make mistakes

A smart person perceives it as a natural component of moving forward. At the same time, he tries not to repeat them.

Fools have learned once and for all the shame of making mistakes.

14. Knows how to concentrate

For maximum concentration, an intelligent person can withdraw into himself, be inaccessible to anyone and nothing.

Stupid people are always open to communication.

15. A smart person convinces himself that everything in this life depends only on him.

Although he understands that this is not so. Therefore, he believes in himself, and not in the word "luck."

Stupid people convince themselves that everything in this life depends on circumstances and other people. This allows them to relieve themselves of all responsibility for what is happening in their lives.

16. It can be hard as steel or soft as clay

At the same time, an intelligent person proceeds from his ideas about how he should be under different circumstances.

A fool is hard as steel, or soft as clay, based on the desire to meet the expectations of others.

17. Easily admits his mistakes

His goal is to understand the real state of things, and not to be always right. He understands only too well how difficult it is to make sense of the diversity of life. Therefore, he does not lie.

Fools deceive themselves and others.

18. Acts mostly like a smart person

Sometimes smart people allow themselves to relax and behave like stupid people.

Stupid people sometimes concentrate, show willpower, make an effort and behave like smart people.

Of course, no one can act smart always and everywhere. But the more you are from a smart person, the more you are. The more stupid, the more stupid.