10 Signs Someone Is Smarter Than You

Unless you think you’re the smartest,
who doesn't want to be smarter? Of
course I want to be smarter too, so I try
to find out who’s the real smart guy that
maybe I can learn from.
Here are the signs of smart people:
1. They don’t talk as much as you do,
because they know they got smart by
listening.
2. They know lots of things other than what
they’re specialised in. Theirs is the gift of a
broad mind, constantly fed with the
stimulant of being interested in what
everyone else is doing.
3. They juggle home, work and personal
interests with dexterity and never fall back
on the tired old refrain about “work life
balance”. And when they’re juggling, they
somehow manage to seem 100% engaged
with what they’re doing, on all fronts
simultaneously, even though you know
they’re taking appropriate steps behind the
scenes to make sure their lives are
perfectly, serenely balanced.
4. They probably do social media. Not
always, but probably. It is not only another
chance to listen, but one they use to
ensure they can feed their brains with
things they otherwise won’t have come
across.
5. Even when things go very badly wrong,
they’ll be smiling. Smart people never get
ruffled because their smart brains present
them with alternatives faster than the bad
stuff can happen.
6.They know they are usually the smartest
person in the room, but they don’t spend
their time dwelling on that. Instead, they
take it as a personal challenge to see if they
can make everyone else the smartest
person in the room too.
7. If they are managers, they will make
every effort to get people smarter, more
connected and more popular than them in
their teams. They’re not threatened
because they know that smartness is
synergistic. They also make sure that their
smart people get to look smarter than them
for the same reason.
8.They have hidden skills that never get
rolled out until they’re needed. They don’t
have any need to show their full capabilities
for reasons of proving they’re better than
others.
9. They may or may not have expensive
educations. You’d never know just by being
with them unless you had their CV in front
of you.
10. They never, ever, under any
circumstances, make you look silly, even
though it would be easy to do so. They’ve
learned through bitter experience that the
only thing that happens when you make
someone look bad is you look bad yourself.
Now you should know who the smart
people are. If you want to be the smart
one, let me give you this extra advice
from Steve Jobs “Stay hungry. Stay
foolish.”
CULLED FROM: http://www.lifehack.org/
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