How to be a truly smart person?

If you want to be a smart person, you must first figure out what kind of person can be considered a smart person. My definition is two points:

(1) Great wisdom is like a fool

< p>Really smart people don’t look very smart, but you can feel that the other person is not stupid. This kind of person looks normal and is neither humble nor arrogant.

People who can make people look smart will only attract others to be defensive, and they are often not really smart.

But who looks like an ordinary person or even stupid, but is actually smart and transparent. This is called a chicken thief, and it is difficult for people to guard against him.

(2) Able to achieve success

Another type of smart person, he knows he is smart and lets others know how smart he is.

But he does not let others guard against him, but is able to find good ways to behave and do things, produce good results, and make others trust him, help him, and rely on him. This is the highest state of intelligence. .

After talking about the definition of smart, how can we be a smart person?

1. Insist on input and output

Really smart people must keep reading. This is the most basic condition, no doubt about it.

People who don’t study can also be so-called smart, but this kind of smartness can only ensure that they know how to take advantage and how not to suffer losses.

This kind of person is not smart in the true sense. Smartness in the true sense should bring output to the outside world, not just a slippery middleman. That is a small cleverness and will not go far.

One advantage of reading is that it can constantly provide you with fuel for thinking.

No one is self-taught, and all the fuel for thinking comes from the outside world. Sitting there and dreaming can only be a struggle between left and right, without success.

Reading to acquire knowledge is one aspect, and it is a basic aspect.

While reading, you keep thinking and activating your thinking. This process of training your brain shapes a person’s true intelligence - you not only know that one plus one equals two, but also think about why it equals two.

Another important aspect is output - it exercises your logical ability.

Some readers consulted me and said that their thinking logic easily becomes confused, and they don’t know how to analyze things in detail, and they don’t know how to become a logical person.

The advice I give is: output, output actively.

Insist on outputting, write down your own thoughts on one thing, or tell it to people around you.

If you find it difficult to explain something clearly at the beginning, it means you have found the right problem. As long as you start outputting bravely, you will slowly become able to speak logically and think in order.

If so, what will be the result? If so, how will the situation change.

This ability can only be mastered by constantly training your own output.

You can write a diary in a notebook, you can write articles online, you can write a short composition for your circle of friends, or you can make a short video to express your opinions.

As long as you output, you will slowly realize what it means to express logically and think in order.

Like to express, like to write, like to solve problems, and are not afraid of complex situations. These output abilities based on a person's thinking and analysis ability must be the essential characteristics of a successful person.

He does not necessarily have a fixed form, but he certainly has the ability to think proactively.

For example, expression can be speaking, writing, pictures, equations, program codes, etc. Different people have different ways of expressing their thinking results;

Problem solving can be technical problems. , interpersonal problems, benefit distribution, etc., behind the solution of these problems, there must be a person's thinking process.

This requires you to take the initiative to speak, take the initiative to write, and take the initiative to do. As long as you output, you will definitely be able to think, and it will definitely exercise your logic.

I have read many books, experienced many things, and have a lot of knowledge and insights in my mind, but it is still a mess. The solution is to output.

The process of output is to sort out everything in your mind and put it into good use. This is an excellent way to build logical nerves.

2. Maintain a high enough sensitivity

As an INTJ, there is a kind of person I hate very much, that is, the kind of person who is particularly stupid.

Whether you express it tactfully, hint implicitly, or go straight to the point, he will not understand.

Whether it is meeting an important person or a rare opportunity to chat with a great person, you must maintain a high degree of sensitivity.

What the other party said and what intention he wanted to express must be printed in your mind, word for word, and your brain must be turned quickly to understand.

Especially for language or behavior that you don’t quite understand, feel weird, or are half-baked, you should think more about it and raise your pillow to reflect on it. It must have its own mystery.

Why else is the saying "you taste it, you taste it carefully" so popular now.

Stupid people have little taste, so they always cannot read between the lines and understand the voice-over.

This kind of person spends his whole life complaining about the lack of opportunities, as if he is the only one in the world.

On the other hand, self-media is becoming more and more developed, and everyone can express their opinions, which has brought about a problem: the threshold for information production is getting lower and lower, and there are more and more junk information and disturbing information on the Internet. .

Really useful and valuable information is buried in the vast ocean of information, which is why payment for knowledge is becoming more and more popular.

But paid knowledge is, after all, the result of other people’s thinking and output. Even if you pay for it, you can only accept the "fish" of "teaching a man to fish".

Being a person who is sensitive enough to information and learning to capture and extract valuable information is the "fishing" in "teaching people to fish".

Everyone is like this anyway, and they won’t talk to you directly like online payment. It’s good if I can leak some information to you. It just depends on whether you can capture that little bit of information and give it to you. Amplify, analyze, exploit.

3. Think from the perspective of benefiting people's hearts

The easiest thing to mislead yourself when you are young is the instigation of passionate people, including excessive morality and doctrine.

This is why I always advocate that intellectuals dare to be "shameless", because people who are "too shameless" tend to value morality and doctrine too much and are unable to solve problems realistically.

This is also the case. In many important moments in history, young people were taken advantage of. Their intentions were good, but they ended up doing bad things.

To this day, those who can be incited are still those who have a strong sense of morality. Just look at the several reversals of public opinion on Weibo to understand what kind of people will be taken advantage of.

How can there be absolute good and bad in this world, how can there be absolute right and wrong?

If you want to understand the essence behind something happening, and if you want to understand the reasons behind some people's weird behaviors, you can only look at it from the perspective of people's interests.

When something happens, who gets something, who loses something, whose face and dignity are damaged, and whose future and wealth are compromised.

It seems that the twists and turns are overwhelming, but in the end it comes down to nothing more than these.

When a person is young and just enters the venue, he can only be a spectator.

Have some experience, make yourself more advanced, and become a director.

But whether you are a spectator or a director, you must have your own judgment and control of the situation on the field, and do not make noises, coercion, participation, or pretentiousness.

Be an emotionless analysis machine, understand the situation first, and then plan in a direction that is beneficial to you.

Really smart people can always predict the development direction of things in advance, then find their own position, do what they should do, follow the trend, and benefit themselves from the trend.

If a person can accurately follow every rhythm and benefit from every trend, this person will not only be extremely smart, but also definitely not an ordinary person.

4. Forget the insignificant self

The last point I say is not because it is the least important. On the contrary, this point is quite important, and it is the finale.

Many people get into red-faced arguments over minor differences. What do they gain?

What you get is nothing more than that little bit of face and useless vanity.

But in most cases, this kind of person may not get that little bit of face, because the other party in the argument will not be convinced by you.

Anyone who has argued with others must have a deep understanding of how difficult it is to get the person you are arguing with to give in to you.

It’s like a child being vindictive. If you tell him not to do that, he will do it anyway. On the surface, it’s to make you angry, but in fact, it’s for his own dignity.

Limited to their own small dignity and unable to extricate themselves, this kind of person's pattern is really extremely narrow, and they can't tell what kind of face is useful and what kind of face can only be made uncomfortable for themselves.

Emotional face is not face, but the face that can be used to manage people and do things is face. However, most people can only dwell on the former and will never have the chance to realize the latter.

What is a humble person and what is a status in the world? Really smart people know this clearly.

The earth is as low as the sea, and people are as low as the king.

This lowness, in the eyes of smart people, is just a gesture, and this gesture allows everyone to be used by him invisibly.

Most people who serve as kings and prime ministers will not care about the small gains and losses of face, and they will definitely not compete with others for favor, competition, or credit for the sake of face. They will only get along with the world calmly.

It is precisely because they are unmoved by all this that they can control everything at this level.

Being vindictive is stupid and will inevitably lead to big losses; thinking about how to solve the problem is the real smart person.

Being smart means having sharp ears and clear eyes, being able to hear and see, having a clear eye on everything, and everything is for my use.

Just like an excellent agent, he must look very ordinary, but when he does things, he will definitely amaze everyone.