Jemini
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I have always been aware there are a lot of myths in regards to intelligence, but bringing up the subject in another thread and sharing my experience with it has shown me in terms of the responses that people's immersion in the myths is worse than I thought.
Therefore, I decided I would share this video from a psyche-oriented channel on Youtube that goes over some traits strongly associated with people who are genuinely really smart.
Pay the most attention to the part right at the beginning where it says smart people tend to think they're average and no smarter than anyone else. Meanwhile, the people who boast about their intelligence are usually fairly average in reality. It's the paradoxical reality that's most likely the origin of most of the misunderstanding in regards to intelligence. It's the result of average people who think they're smart figuring that real smart people think the same way they do. Well, this is wrong. It couldn't be farther from the truth.
In order to help out in getting a better idea of what real intelligent people look like, I'll also go into a few good examples from fiction that you can consider.
Ferdinand (Ascendance of a Bookworm):
This man might very well be the single #1 most intelligent character in fiction so far as I'm aware. He is severely limited in his impact on the world by the fact that he had a horrible case of "evil step-mother" syndrome, but despite the harsh oppression he faced he still managed to pretty much manipulate the entire kingdom to his favor more or less without leaving the temple.
Mine (Ascendance of a Bookworm):
She is not as intelligent as Ferdinand, but she is still REALLY high up there on the intelligence scale. (This is good, because she's the MC of the series, and it's helpful if there's another person above the MC in their own specialty for the sake of balancing out the character.) She as that natural curiosity down pat... err... no, who am I kidding. She takes it to such a ridiculous excess that even Ferdinand calls her a book-loving gremlin, as do several fans of the series. She also has that attitude where she does not get set back by her failures (and she has a lot of failures) but she gets back up after them and tries new approaches to her problems until something finally works.
She gets better results than Ferdinand, but most of this is because she is 1. Supported by her previous-life knowledge, 2. Does not face the same obstacles as Ferdinand because most of her obstacles have been cleared for her, and 3. She has Ferdinand for a mentor actually helping her to gain knowledge and training faster.
Rudeus Greyrat (Mushoku Tensei):
He's a perfect example of a genuinely intelligent character who absolutely does not regard himself as being intelligent. There are several times through the series where he arrives at conclusions that are not obvious to anyone but him, but after he says them the audience can sorta piece together the fact that he did indeed have the information necessary to arrive at that conclusion and it wasn't an author cheat to give it to him.
He gets help from a lot of people along his journey, and he faces failure again and again. But, he's somehow able to keep a positive attitude through it and aside from feeding his vices (mostly to do with perversion) he tends to avoid unnecessary actions that would get him in trouble. (Let's face it, his perversion vices get him into enough trouble, so it's good he doesn't do panicky stupid things in bad situations that would create even more trouble.)
There is even a scene around mid series where he's called out as being a genius. His reaction to this call-out is exactly the reaction a true genius would have to this sort of call-out. He is genuinely confused at why this person's calling him a genius. Because, after all, from his perspective he's no different at all from anybody else. He can only see the spots where he failed in his life due to stupid mistakes, and he knows for a fact there are people who are stronger and better than him in the world. So, to him, that means he's nothing great. This is not a self-esteem issue... (well, maybe you can argue it is,) this is actually a very normal and relatable trait shared by all genuinely intelligent people in the world.
(I had more character examples in mind when I started writing this, but now they've completely skipped my mind. I guess I'm exhausted from writing out explanations on 3 characters, so I'll leave it at that for now.)
Therefore, I decided I would share this video from a psyche-oriented channel on Youtube that goes over some traits strongly associated with people who are genuinely really smart.
Pay the most attention to the part right at the beginning where it says smart people tend to think they're average and no smarter than anyone else. Meanwhile, the people who boast about their intelligence are usually fairly average in reality. It's the paradoxical reality that's most likely the origin of most of the misunderstanding in regards to intelligence. It's the result of average people who think they're smart figuring that real smart people think the same way they do. Well, this is wrong. It couldn't be farther from the truth.
In order to help out in getting a better idea of what real intelligent people look like, I'll also go into a few good examples from fiction that you can consider.
Ferdinand (Ascendance of a Bookworm):
This man might very well be the single #1 most intelligent character in fiction so far as I'm aware. He is severely limited in his impact on the world by the fact that he had a horrible case of "evil step-mother" syndrome, but despite the harsh oppression he faced he still managed to pretty much manipulate the entire kingdom to his favor more or less without leaving the temple.
Mine (Ascendance of a Bookworm):
She is not as intelligent as Ferdinand, but she is still REALLY high up there on the intelligence scale. (This is good, because she's the MC of the series, and it's helpful if there's another person above the MC in their own specialty for the sake of balancing out the character.) She as that natural curiosity down pat... err... no, who am I kidding. She takes it to such a ridiculous excess that even Ferdinand calls her a book-loving gremlin, as do several fans of the series. She also has that attitude where she does not get set back by her failures (and she has a lot of failures) but she gets back up after them and tries new approaches to her problems until something finally works.
She gets better results than Ferdinand, but most of this is because she is 1. Supported by her previous-life knowledge, 2. Does not face the same obstacles as Ferdinand because most of her obstacles have been cleared for her, and 3. She has Ferdinand for a mentor actually helping her to gain knowledge and training faster.
Rudeus Greyrat (Mushoku Tensei):
He's a perfect example of a genuinely intelligent character who absolutely does not regard himself as being intelligent. There are several times through the series where he arrives at conclusions that are not obvious to anyone but him, but after he says them the audience can sorta piece together the fact that he did indeed have the information necessary to arrive at that conclusion and it wasn't an author cheat to give it to him.
He gets help from a lot of people along his journey, and he faces failure again and again. But, he's somehow able to keep a positive attitude through it and aside from feeding his vices (mostly to do with perversion) he tends to avoid unnecessary actions that would get him in trouble. (Let's face it, his perversion vices get him into enough trouble, so it's good he doesn't do panicky stupid things in bad situations that would create even more trouble.)
There is even a scene around mid series where he's called out as being a genius. His reaction to this call-out is exactly the reaction a true genius would have to this sort of call-out. He is genuinely confused at why this person's calling him a genius. Because, after all, from his perspective he's no different at all from anybody else. He can only see the spots where he failed in his life due to stupid mistakes, and he knows for a fact there are people who are stronger and better than him in the world. So, to him, that means he's nothing great. This is not a self-esteem issue... (well, maybe you can argue it is,) this is actually a very normal and relatable trait shared by all genuinely intelligent people in the world.
(I had more character examples in mind when I started writing this, but now they've completely skipped my mind. I guess I'm exhausted from writing out explanations on 3 characters, so I'll leave it at that for now.)