1) If you look at some people around you who seem to speak the same, or feel the same for a topic and a certain field, it means that it is your own problem. No one in the world thinks exactly the same. If you really want to know who is smarter, the first step is to seriously disassemble the logic of their original words. If you find the contradictory differences in their most original core starting point, understand the process by which they say the same thing, and the real reasons behind their backs to come together and say the same thing, then you are probably smarter than them. Just like two senior professors, it feels like they are very powerful, in fact, their specific ideas in some aspects are definitely different, but they can teach the same content for the general public. If you are more close to their realm, first take the initiative to dig out a topic that is different from them. From this point of view, you can get out of the predicament of others deliberately blinding you as a fool. In ordinary life, you can also ask questions about other people's views and ask them clearly.
2) If several people are still saying the same thing, it is basically impossible to be the result of their own independent thinking. Probabilistically speaking, none of them are the initiators of this idea. The more people tell you the same thing, either you are incompetent, you can't distinguish, or they are all memorized from a third party; you shouldn't think of these words as their cleverness. Their inability to realize that the other person (the audience) may have heard of it, in fact, it also indicates that they have some aspect of the intellectual disability, at least the experience disorder. The more familiar the content of what others say, the more questionable it is. Many times, if they really have any independent opinion, they have to ask clearly to know. You can take the last time you heard (or associated) the content before and analyze it more deeply with them. If you just observe that someone is repeating what others have said, you can basically be a fool. If people say it is relatively fresh, it is not necessarily right, it is not necessarily worth it, but at least it is not a fool. To learn more, and perhaps to find that he speaks like some others, is to judge the situation carefully.
3) If a person says the same thing every time and repeatedly emphasizes a certain idea, this should also feel a kind of vigilance. Why is this person still saying the same thing for so many years? Smart people think every time they speak, get feedback lessons, and then reflect and change their perspectives. Even if others agree, you can learn a lot of new things from the communication process. If you say the same next time, it is obvious that this person may be a fool. I've found that the core criterion for cleverness is to observe how others handle digesting new things. Many times, it can also be observed that they are not thinking, or ignoring, as if they are talking exactly the same as other people next time. It may be that their ability to think has encountered a solidification trap, accustomed to certain ideas and expressions, but more like a manifestation of inability to digest new things. Anyway, it's two. How can a person with a brain repeat what he said last time? There is no change in the heart, or is there a change in the heart that cannot be expressed, and restrains itself? This is more obvious than repeating what others say. Even though I still agree with you, why do you have to talk about it again? I also thought a lot last time, or I have a new perspective, why don't you? This feeling.
4) Oops, I met a guy before who likes to write poetry about all sorts of things. Because he's unique, I also feel that he should be smart by default. I also want to learn how to write something like this. Many friends still think that he is very powerful, so they have always regarded him as a mysterious object. After a long time of contact, I found that the concepts in his heart, the things he wanted to express, were exactly the same as the whole society. He didn't have his own ideas, and he didn't show any changes before and after. Although he can explain it, and it is more concise and perfect, there is no sense of progress and no fun in interacting with him. He felt he had a unique voice, but in the end he had the same angle as the official. It is not the perspective of ordinary people at all, but ordinary people around him are just as easy to be deceived by him. Insisting on treating him as a person with ideas is also quite toxic, and I am even more unlucky. Very annoying. He can wrap up very ordinary views that everyone is familiar with very deeply, and make them very wonderful, in fact, in the end, he has no opinion at all, and he is not willing to use his own brain. It took us a long time to know that he was stressing the maintenance of the status quo, that is, destroying us. In this case, we must learn how to see through what is deliberately esoteric on the surface, oppose superstition, and maintain the most basic rational attitude. The other party can't explain some things, all kinds of avoidance, but also be careful to worship.
5) Sometimes, I feel like I'm giving a lot of patience to some people. Particularly annoying. Friends around me also said that people are too stupid, too weird, can't help me, waste time, and so on. But I appreciate their cleverness. Not the type that speaks beautifully, nor is it the kind of intelligence that takes advantage of people (taking advantage of the current situation). What I like is that I can talk about things deeply every time, learn something new every time I have a conversation, and hear a new perspective every time. Maybe I still can't stand their opinions, can't stand their way of speaking, etc., which has brought me a burden, but I still appreciate their pure intelligence. I know that they have been thinking about things, I know that they are dissatisfied with the so-called common sense of any current theory, but the so-called successful people around them, no matter how good, seem to be unable to do these thoughts. Therefore, even if you are scolded every day, all kinds of discomfort, I am really reluctant to give up such a friend. Without them, I would probably only be able to communicate with a bunch of fools every day and say something that everyone was saying all day long.
6) Only those who admire the Chinese Internet. I like Yuan Tengfei. Did he say a lot of things that I didn't approve of? yes. So when I watch it, it makes me think. Watching him talk about European and American things is also very addictive, because it is a new perspective. I believe that a lot of the content was his own, and I hate him as much as he knows that he is indeed very smart. Other similar channels can't be watched at all, because they are all talking about the same content, and they can't even feel what they have come up with. If a Chinese intellectual completely repeats the views of the Chinese friends around him, or completely repeats the views of the people who grew up in Britain, I really can't agree with them. That's too much. Some people, where is it smart? Eloquence is good, but where is the freshness, how to think uniquely? In other areas, there are some such troubles. In fact, in China, there are more traditional and outdated slogans (definitions) everywhere, so it is always a bit difficult to look at, but I try to think that they are not familiar with the meaning of the modern debate outside, just look at other things they say. Just deliberately choosing Yuan Tengfei such an example.
7) A little too lazy to talk about it, I feel that the core lies in the above. Other criteria for judging are too abstract. Human personalities are strange, many of which are determined by natural genes or some acquired environment. Today, not everyone has enough conditions to think independently from an early age. Not everyone is so easily challenged to think. I think that this is still an intellectual standard that crosses character, but it is not necessarily a reliable standard that crosses the current class reality. More need to work hard to dismantle other people's thoughts and find out the real reasons behind why others say it. If people appear to be very insightful, they can further explore what others really think. Trying to find more completely different ideas, the world is less narrow. The so-called normal perspective of reality is often just a narrow scope of public opinion, and there is a sea of ideas outside, but it is shrunk to two seemingly extreme small ranges. Changing the topic every day makes it impossible for you and me to concentrate on one thing, and mixes up various issues, so that everyone tends to digest some of the simplest, and then choose a hypocritical position that has no long-term significance. This is the reality that is recognized today, in fact, very magical, and it is still far from what we should seriously think about. Some intellectuals, like ordinary people, have been trapped in this framework, where are they smart?
8) There's a small problem, which is what happens if it is assumed that intelligence is really naturally determined, hierarchical IQ? Suppose there really is such a thing. So, a person with an IQ of about 100 (average), can he distinguish between an IQ of 120, 140, 160, and 180? In his eyes, he also felt that everyone else was just as smart and could not appreciate it unless someone else imposed some number or some illusory standard of success. Like an ancient medieval army meeting the U.S. army in World War II or the U.S. army today, can he recognize the difference? It was still hanging directly, and it was difficult to feel. The actual power gap is also calculated in multiples. Conversely, from top to bottom, can a person with a 150 IQ differ between 110 and 90 and 70, respectively? Such an army example can still be used. Each lives in his own little world, and he has to distinguish who is on top and who is down. As for who is stronger and weaker, where is so much inspiration? And really don't believe that some people are definitely stronger in all respects, funny? (Everyone has their own strengths, but we still live in a very backward social system, most people can not play)
If others don't have your spiritual thoughts, then no matter how much you know, you have no advantage, because they can't see. —Schopenhauer