You Have No Idea How Smart You Really Are | People Stories #377

have you ever met a really intelligent person who didn't really know how smart they were what was your experience with them we have a paid summer internship program for juniors and seniors pursuing construction management degrees five years ago we had a young woman who came into the program in her junior year she was very tiny in stature and very quiet but we soon learned giant in intellect and loud where it counted the way we operate is each intern will spend three weeks on a different project learning a different role within the organization three weeks on site as a superintendent in turn three weeks on site with safety three with project management and three on site with quality control after each period i received a call praising her ingenuity and ability to adapt and improvise in any situation at the end of the internship we have a plus delta review of their performance and based on that review we make a determination on whether to offer them a place the following summer in the case of a senior we determine if we want to extend them a full-time employment offer every review she received from each department all said the same thing hire her now we extended an offer for a salaried position part-time from that point through her senior year along with tuition reimbursement this young lady still amazes everyone every single day she's 25 years old making an amazing salary and absolutely dominating any project she's given if she doesn't know it today she'll practically be an expert tomorrow she's incredibly impressive i can see her having my job one day operations director hopefully it's after i retire good on you guys for seeing her talent and reimbursing her for it i've seen a lot of great candidates get away because the company isn't willing to treat an entry-level candidate to their qualities besides being a new grad criminal defense lawyer here had a client who was a low-level drug dealer and gun runner most street level guys have a very different type of intelligence that doesn't translate well to the white collar world many of my clients asked to read case law i've only met one who could read it digest it and discuss it intelligently with me this guy he'd do his own research from the jail which isn't uncommon but this guy did it well and would actually send me relevant cases that were helpful to the issues in his case and when i explained to him why some were not helpful he got it asked good questions and used that discussion to inform future research there are a lot of inmates who consider themselves jailhouse lawyers this guy was smart enough to actually be one i think about him a lot and wonder what his life would have been like if he was fortunate enough to be afforded with the same opportunities during childhood that i enjoyed comer is guy he'd do his own research from the jail which isn't uncommon but this guy did it well this story is quite sad to read i hope he can meet his potential someday people who are great teachers without actually being a teacher i've always thought people who can teach others are incredibly smart because they're aware enough of what they know to present it to others in such a way they can understand it the guy i used to work with was a phenomenal teacher of all things paints powder coating and color matching blending he had a real passion for it and it showed in the manner in which he taught and demonstrated what he was talking about in saying that he was also very highly strung and had some mental health issues that held him back from doing great things and so believed he was an idiot he wasn't but no amount of telling him would help i was always taught that the best way to learn something is to try and explain teach it to someone else if you can put the concept into new words to explain it to someone else you will have understood it properly and trying to do so is a great way to embed the knowledge in your mind my dad grew up believing he was dumb and would never amount to anything his teachers all hated him and the first time he went to university he was kicked out around the same time as i started university my mum finally convinced him to try again to get a higher education himself he's often said that he's too stupid to go back to school but he speaks about six languages fluently has so many new interesting history facts that whenever we watch any movie we always have to pause at least four times for a lengthy discussion about it and he remembers more book quotes than anyone i've ever met he grew up in communist hungary and east germany and he has since then climbed mountains and been scuba diving in the atlantic among a bunch of other adventures whatever the discussion he's got a story to tell he's the coolest dad ever but for as long as i can remember my family has struggled financially since he couldn't get a job that paid enough it makes me so happy that he's finally reaching his full potential now at 51 years old and we're all super proud of him he dreams of being a teacher one day he will the best teacher his future students could ever wish for this is so wholesome even as a stranger i'm proud of your dad i had a kid in my class that never took anything seriously skipped class brought alcohol to class and did numerous other things you name it he probably did it but man that mf knew his crap whenever he paid attention he understood things when other people were struggling to learn whatever was being taught that day math science english reading etc it makes me a little sad because he was always a troublemaker but deep down i knew that he is was very smart and was capable of doing good in school he just never chose to do it or generally just didn't care idk at this point i think he got involved with the wrong crowd early on unfortunately former co-worker of mine he came to germany as a refugee in his young teenage years had trouble in school due to language barrier poor support tough family situation typical refugee problems then he was unemployed and job center part of german welfare dealing with unemployment sent him to the security company i worked at that time because coney tions of employment are almost non-existent in this field when he was on my team for an event i as team leader had to show him the ropes the event lasted ten consecutive nights and we faced several different challenges that were part of the job every now and then he had a genius idea how to solve a particular problem the following year i got him on my team whenever i could trained him and when i left the company he inherited my position as team leader i don't actually know whether he knew about how smart he is but he was so insecure in the beginning i boldly assume he didn't it's hard not to feel stupid when there is a language barrier even if you're smart when you struggle to communicate what should be simple or basic things you just feel slow my mother she was raised in a poor abusive family and left school very early to escape even now she'll say how she is uneducated which is true but she ain't stupid she raised a bunch of us without much money and was always resourceful and kanye at making ends meet she can do fairly complicated math in her head does extensive research before making large purchases forwards me screenshots of quite sophisticated scam emails and tells me why they're fake she's 78 now and has always embraced new tech has no trouble using her smartphone or her pc she even trouble issued for her neighbors she still lives in the same poverty-stricken area we grew up in and is often helping her neighbors advocate for themselves writing letters telling them who to contact and what to say she's also a keen observer of humans she sees them as they are and takes them as they are with no judgment she was always progressive for her time and passed down zero racism or other prejudices to those kids i wonder what she could have done if she had the opportunities she made dang sure we had my dad he's dyslexic and growing up in the education system in the 70s didn't provide any support so he's all but illiterate he left school at 15 with no qualifications he always says he's stupid and it upsets me so much he won't believe it when we tell him he's not me my mum and my sister all have education beyond degree level and he's smarter than any of us he's eloquent but sometimes mispronounces new words that he's heard in a different accent our accent is heavy on the r sound so i've noticed him adding it to words that don't have ours but of course he's never seen it written down to know he watches historical documentaries and tells us about how that links with the one he watched a couple of years prior he once drove me to university three hours away using the route he'd driven in reverse once without checking a map i wish he could see himself as intelligent eta since it seems like a lot of people have a connection with this comment and will enjoy this story he did actually do a speech for my wedding i was worried about asking him because i wasn't sure how he'd manage and didn't want to put pressure on him but he was keen to do it my mom made cue cards with picture hints and they did not help him he just had it written out and learnt it off by heart and used cue cards with the full speech to help him he can read it when he knows what it says and his speech was by far the most confident and well-performed speech out of all of us give him a birthday card with more words than happy birthday and is not happy but he can smash out a full-on speech with no hesitation when you're intelligent you can truly comprehend how stupid you are someone mentioned already but people who can easily teach others complex systems or ideas my husband is this person microbiologist workflow management and plays dnd on his downtime he can analyze a difficult concept distill the relevant information make it easily accessible to someone and teach it in a patient unassuming manner quickly without making the other party feel stupid or uninformed he's modest as heck he has no idea how hard it is to educate people never trying to one-up or show off his knowledge he's charismatic and emotionally intelligent honestly has no idea how rare his level of kindness and intelligence are in others he's the best person i've ever met sounds like you should be a happy bear but seriously you sound like a great spouse not everyone is appreciated so much my spouse very intelligent can manage really complex spatial stuff and think through mechanical problems in ways i definitely can't a great with computers and pattern recognition and thinking creatively about how to solve problems high school dropout and probably a fifth grade reading level due to severe and inadequately treated dyslexia and dyscalculia i'm a physician and work with many people with less natural processing ability than my spouse has i'm volunteer staff at a math summer camp targeted at children who like doing math most of the kids that we get are the standard doing well in school with good grades to prove it type but it frequently happens that some kid is signed up and the parents tell us that their child doesn't really do well in school in general or math in particular but they just like doing math related puzzles that's cool because that's all we ask for and often enough these kids come with very interesting insights and solutions because they happen to approach the problems from a different angle than the majority they may be quite intelligent but not in a way that expresses itself well within the standard framework of education the same thing happens on the eq social level a few years back we got a sign up where the parents warned us that their son had great difficulties making friends or socializing in general on the first day of camp the kid took a chess board and went to sit down to play against himself perfectly fine but not much later another boy walks up to him and asks if he can join the game they start playing and talking and they end up being practically inseparable the rest of the week the kid that had difficulties making friends just made a new best friend faster than anyone else there just need to give people the right environment it's a lovely story and a nice ending but i gotta admit i thought you were gonna drop some bobby fischer type crap there near the end my granddad left school at 12 he's dyslexic but back in his day that wasn't a recognized thing he has a particular way with animals like he always knows what's wrong can't fix anything he's a prolific reader and people just gravitate to him he's the most helpful person you've ever met and will literally go out of his way to help anyone nice personality i work in manufacturing so we get a lot of uneducated people there are a lot of people out there who are smart but for various reasons when properly served by the public schools they might be barely literate or can hardly string two words together coherently but they solve problems beautifully or always have workable ideas or they talk about ideas rather than people or events it's hard to quantify but you know it when you see it on the flip side i work in a professional white collar job making good money and i know way too many colleagues who are educated but dumb as frick it's messed up you know it when you see it my mom's boyfriend we have a variety of specialists in my family from medicine to r to education to software we go around the table at family gatherings and try to stump him with questions he's never gotten one wrong to date he just knows everything about everything obviously has a photographic memory reads voraciously and delivers car parts for a living sorry i meant to say he did deliver car parts but is now unemployed due to covered i knew a guy who very smart with the ability to be extremely manipulative and had no idea he always got good grades in school often without studying much at all what was more impressive was his ability to read people's body language vocal tone fluctuation and micro expressions often he would know what emotion someone was feeling and how best to proceed the guy was a master at subtle communication such as mirroring and framing conversations so he would be dominant he was able to use this social intelligence to get with girls but he would also use it to get people to do things he wanted one of the clearest examples of manipulation that i know of is that he got his friend to break up with his longtime girlfriend his friend's girlfriend was kind of a dragon would be a little annoying around the group so he subtly started to slip in emotional and logical suggestions whenever he saw his friend in a moment of emotional vulnerability within a week his friend ended the relationship i know new one of these people once you figure out what they're doing it can be devastating and horrifying i grew up with a kid who was one of the smartest people i ever met he was in all the excelled classes a straight a student academics came so easily to this guy he could have went to any college he wanted well he just couldn't stay out of trouble living the thug life selling drugs running with wannabe gangsters well it's been 20 years or so since we have been out of high school and he has done a few stints in prison still lives with his parents make a bigger living selling pot it's crazy seeing so much potential lost the saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices that you make will shape your life forever but you can ask anybody from my neighborhood and they'll just tell you this is just another bronx tale the people that strike me are the ones that eliminate the wrong conclusions somehow before solving an answer the wrong conclusions just do not dawn on them met a lady that went to an ivy league school she could talk to you and hold a nice conversation she could then turn around and talk to someone else at a higher level then when asked a technical question out of her field of expertise she could give you a complex answer she spoke to people on whatever level they were speaking on i have a friend of the family that took every class at a community college before going on to get his degree he retained all of that information interestingly he liked to speak in basic terms and hold everyday conversations if he got shunned at a party he would initially ignore it and keep hanging out with you eventually as the people who shunned him came to a point where they had to stop their conversation he would butt in they often could not figure out the answer to what they were talking about he would just chime in with a smile and explain the rest of the concept to them then he would turn back to you and keep bullshitting i've seen him do that multiple times my friend in high school thinks he's dumb but has an absolutely phenomenal knowledge of politics in the legal economic system he has dyslexia but you wouldn't be able to tell because he reads more seamlessly than most of the rest of us i wish he would recognize how smart he was because i think he doesn't aim as high as he could achieve because he doesn't think he's smart enough keep supporting him it took me a long time to realize my limitations were a lot higher than i'd thought and people like you helped me realize encourage him to be ambitious my current girlfriend is actually extremely smart her intuition is very good with people her problem-solving skills are impressive in situations where she is comfortable and she has a very deep understanding of the human psych but her mother has been gaslighting her since childhood trying to keep her fully reliant on her i have held my tongue at points just to try and not be that boyfriend that ruins a relationship but instead just show her how smart she really is and where she might have a weak point that i may be able to help i walk her through my thought process and she picks it up very quickly i always wonder how far she could be at this point in her life had her mother just supported her instead of tear her down but just in the short time i have been dating her i have seen her grow a lot and i'm very excited to see where she can soar off to i just hope that she takes me with her wondering where you could have been if you had good help is the sad reality for most smart people my brother everyone used to tell him that he was just average just because he got average grades but this kid is so freaking smart he's a huge history buff and one time spent about half an hour explaining to me the importance of some civil war battle and how it was pivotal in helping the union win the war i don't remember the exact details because all i could think about was the level of depth he got into just explaining and analyzing and also explaining in a way that helped me to understand at the time my brother's intelligence is the definition of quality and i'd shout that from the rooftops because as his older sister i'm so freaking proud of him what i would say is everyone i know with a passion for anything is smart when they talk about it because they care i think some people just choose a quieter and more simple life despite their intelligence i worked as a hospital porter for a few years when i was a teen and one of my fellow porters was this brilliant chap who would skim through the paper on his break then go off on some glorious leftist rant like the leader of the union back in the 70s his political knowledge was unbelievable he could easily have been an mp but was happier as a porter if only intelligence was required to be an mp i have one as a psychiatric doctor one of my jobs is community management of patients right after they finish an inpatient admission so they are only slightly better not fully recovered one guy came into clinic and my boss for some reason described him to me as a bit simple i don't know if she was trolling me or if she just completely misread him because he remains one of the smartest patients i ever had he rocks up in high this gear with concrete on his work boots and speaks in a broad accent he often says stuff like oh i don't know about any of that tourmate i haven't got time for this but this guy was sharp as attack anytime i would bring up a point of psychoadduction to help him understand his bipolar disorder he would grasp the concept before i had finished explaining it i still use his words today with other patients about the similarities between anxiety and depression doc it's like anxiety and depression our brother and sister holds two fingers up and crosses them they aren't the same but they are clearly related i was flawed it was way better than whatever garbage i was going to say he got well really fast he just understood things so quickly and was so open to new information he could apply anything new to his own experience instantly uncanny he had no idea how smart he was because he just assumed smartness was for people with a university degree i had to tell my boss they were completely wrong about him but i don't know she ever took the time to update her initial assessment my partner is polish she lives and works using her second language at school she was taught russian and can get by in it she is so smart and people abuse her because she speaks english with an accent those people you see every day especially older people living their lives in a second language yep they are smart all these comments are perfect supporting evidence to the notion that there's no such thing as intelligence as one single quality and i love it i knew a shaved head mexican gang member in high school who made it to calculus without doing any studying or homework outside of just the class time because of this his grades were always at a b plus level so he never really considered himself smart nor drew much attention from teachers our high school was sharply divided between rich and poor and he was doing as well or better than people who came from privileged backgrounds and that i knew for a fact had hours of private tutoring daily were part of study groups math club etc to this day i can't fathom how he did it he did pay careful attention in class so he must have had a photographic memory and genius level mind half the time he never even brought the book to class and had to borrow a ti calculator i know he left his books in his locker before he went home because he didn't want to be caught holding a school book by his friends i was friendly with him and saddened to learn that he was killed a few years after high school i know a guy who can't read is in his 30s pursuing for the first time a job kitchen help after a life of incarceration the kitchen is hectic crowded high stakes and busy compared to other kitchens i'd worked in previous racing through the day by the seat of your pants and when the shift is over you can hardly recollect where you've been or what you've been doing in this fast unforgiving environment this man is learning how to read in his thirties when he makes a mistake the more experienced staff who would typically raise any slip up take the time to encourage him and forgive his mistakes as the mistakes of someone who is still learning he's now able to work from a recipe book pick items out of storage or the walk-in that are boxed and labeled box of sugar that doesn't readily appear to be sugar box of cheese that doesn't show itself as cheesy tc if you saw him at checkout like he has a hard time doing math and making change or reading you'll notice it right away that he's not on par but within the kitchen the man's considered a prodigy for being unable to read or do math he can follow a recipe better than some credentialed chefs in the house even more beautiful is that he is highly emotionally intelligent and always tries to make the people around him feel at peace or happy even when he can't find his way around letters numbers or the outside world i've met highly intelligent people that were uneducated usually it manifests as frustration they try to explain highly complex ideas in ill-informed ways and are misunderstood a lot my brother is clever but struggles to get the words out he gets frustrated and angry because he can't get the world to understand him as a teen i worked for a video rental place like blockbuster but not my manager spoke in five languages and did all the accounts without the need of a calculator i asked him what was he just a manager at a movie rental place he could be making a lot of money doing anything else he told me making less money is the price of my happiness always stuck with me my husband he was always told in school he could do better his parents have said to him in front of me he's not very bright they assume because he works with computers all day he just plays video games all the time he got terrible grades in school and dropped out of university he could always do better in school because he was bored he got terrible grades because he was told he do badly by his parents his teachers basically everyone in his life his parents don't understand what he does at all he doesn't work with computers all day and he doesn't have time to be playing video games all day when i met him we working in the same company i witnessed that company hold him back for five years because he was useful where he was it was just very good timing when he applied for a different job in the same company but a different department and location he got the job and was allowed to transfer within a week because a higher up was on annual leave and couldn't object the original department had to hire eight people to replace him when he left he's since been hired by a different company and is flourishing he's had several promotions and pay rises is on good terms with everyone in the company from the group ceo to the cleaners in his office and is treated with respect by everyone he works with while he can't do simpler maths without a calculator he can do complex quantum equations in his head his father had the audacity to say you've always been bad at maths to which my husband who has had enough of his parents bulls replied my maths might be bad but it's good enough to know i earn more than you combined in reference to both of his parents i'm a super proud wife if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Length: 26min 45sec (1605 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 12 2021