The Arrogance of Intelligence

It is true that there are those of a much higher level of intelligence than others but there is also another truth that runs parallel to that theory which many of us refuse to acknowledge.  Those of higher intelligence may own that space in many things but there is and always will be a space where those of higher intelligence are simply as dumb as a box of rocks.   Now what this simply means is, there are certain things that even the most intelligent is uneducated about.

When you go to a car lot and drive away with a vehicle that you really didn’t want but the salesperson convinced you to take, it is said that the salesperson outsmarted you.  What is unknown and often times over-looked is the mindset of the buyer of that vehicle.  Let’s say when you woke up that morning, you had a mission to get you a car today and even though you were well aware that you had no good down payment and your credit sucked, it was something you decided you were going to accomplish come hell or high water.  Now when you came upon that car lot and the salesperson asked you how they could help you, you of course asked for the best vehicle on the lot with the knowledge that you were not about to drive off with it.  So the salesperson went to work and showed you all the vehicles that you could leave there with today.  You pretended like you didn’t like any of those he/she showed and was very annoyed and disappointed that you couldn’t get the one you initially asked for.  By the end of the day, you finally drive off with that “beater”, so who outsmarted whom?


Sometimes the arrogance of thinking that we are smarter than others can blind us to the truth of just maybe we are not as smart as we think we are.

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