Psychology says the genuinely intelligent people aren’t the fastest in conversations, the most informed, or the most articulate, they’re the ones who got quieter as they got smarter, learned to say I don’t know without flinching, and stopped mistaking the speed of an answer for the quality of one
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Look, we’ve been sold a lie about what intelligence looks like.
The fast talker. The quick wit. The person who always has an answer locked and loaded before you’ve even finished asking the question. We’ve been trained to see that and think, “wow, smart.” But honestly? I think we’ve been measuring the wrong thing entirely.
Mark Travers Ph.D., psychologist, points out that “Speed is frequently treated as a proxy for intelligence; quick thinkers are assumed
The fast talker. The quick wit. The person who always has an answer locked and loaded before you’ve even finished asking the question. We’ve been trained to see that and think, “wow, smart.” But honestly? I think we’ve been measuring the wrong thing entirely.
Mark Travers Ph.D., psychologist, points out that “Speed is frequently treated as a proxy for intelligence; quick thinkers are assumed
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