I think that a fairly reliable mark of high intelligence is the capacity to recognize the signal within the noise of someone's 'wrong' take.
Pseudo-intelligence gleefully pours out the bathwater, raw intelligence finds & nurtures the baby.
Heidi Priebex.comI think that a fairly reliable mark of high intelligence is the capacity to recognize the signal within the noise of someone's 'wrong' take. Pseudo-intelligence gleefully pours out the bathwater, raw intelligence finds & nurtures the baby.
The combination of motivated reasoning, the propensity to mislead yourself, and an overconfidence in intuition makes smart people less likely to seek feedback. When they do seek feedback, their ability to spin a persuasive narrative makes other people less likely to challenge them. That means that the smarter you are, the more vigilant you have to
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