6 Signs You’re Smarter Than You Think
You may not realize it
“The problem with the world,” Charles Bukowski once said, “is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
The reason the oracle of Delphi pronounced Socrates the wisest man in Athens wasn’t because he knew everything. It was because he understood how much he didn’t know. This is the primary reason why smart people can often be unnoticed.
A wise person is intellectually humble because he (or she) is aware of how much he doesn’t know. A foolish person, on the other hand, is certain about everything. He is more focused on appearing confident than knowing the truth.
But as Sadhguru once said, “Ignorance endorsed by a great authority doesn’t become truth.” It only makes it harder for you to know the truth.
If you’re smart, there’s a high chance your intellectual humility might be making you give yourself less credit than you deserve. Hence, if you see these signs, you might be smarter than you think.
You value curiosity over certainty
“An ignorance that you are aware of and have acknowledged,” the Indian mystic, Sadhguru once said, “is a far more powerful and profound state than a knowledge you’ve concluded.”
