I specifically googled this type of article because my BF seems to be brilliant but… challenged. I feel like I’m taking care of a spoiled 5 year old! I genuinely think something is very wrong with his thinking. Socially, he is sweet and appropriate. But as discussed here he seems absent of common sense. He loses things, behaves without thinking and disregards my feelings and needs. For example, as he watches me mop the floor then mindlessly drops food and walks off. On a more serious note, he wakes me up every morning at 2 am banging doors and turning on lights all the while knowing I can’t go back to sleep. This has caused me to have an Ambien addiction as I became so miserably sleep deprived. After 5 years of this, I began yelling at him as he is driving me crazy. I even broke-up with him amicably thinking this was his cryptic way of saying “get lost”!!!! But he didn’t want that, so I’m trying to live with it. I love him and just want to understand and help him. I don’t think he does it on purpose, but he comes off as extremely rude and irritating. I’ve tried instilling methods to help him be more organized but he is totally resistant. I know no one is perfect. I admire his intelligence, but his personality is making me insane. Any ideas on how to deal with this?

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My little sister said that its societies fault, for up bringing their children to be have a lack of social life as an easier way to success. “Focus on school Johnny, forget those friends of yours”. Mothers have been known to state that famous quote, that their children shouldn’t go to school to make friends they go there to learn. They then feel left out of the life of their class mates, they start to lose interest in the social aspect of school, and focus on the academics. They lack forming that social creativity in the period of time, and as they grow older it becomes a norm. Smart students go to school to learn, where as “cool” kids want to make friends. Some smart people listen, they follow a functional, technical, and logical function, therefore lacking the out side the box crazy unimaginative illogical aspect of their lives, which tend to help make great conversation. Also some smart people watch their words, and think before they leap into relationships and tend to not associate with people who sound nuts! hehe. Thats my thought on why smart people lack socially!

i really do the dumbest things and im a straight a+ student

My husband who has a degree in engeneering claims he doesn’t know how to boil water to make pasta. I think it all comes down to being good at the things you do most and the things you do most being those that you are naturally good at. As you said, you can improve in areas you are not as good at by practicing. Maybe people who are book smart think because they are already so “smart” they don’t need to (or aren’t encouraged to) learn by practing other types of intelligence the way non book smart pepople are encouraged to study and memorize academic lessons.

Its the learn curve, as one makes mistakes, one learns. This happens over time. To communicate properly:
The best mechanic is one who has made all the mistakes!
So I would agree or disagree, everyone is different. Working at their own pace.
Clear, lucent thought finds its way into to life, oh! no, where is my keys.
One more thing.
I understand.

Thanks for the respectful disagreement Kevin!

This article was stereotypical. I didn’t like the part where you put down CEO’s and bosses intelligence. I think it is far from the truth when you say people at the top have less intelligence than other people. There are tons of very smart people at the top of companies. I do agree that smart people tend to do dumb and unusual things. Also, just because you locked keys in your car doesn’t mean you don’t have street smarts. Everyone has locked themselves out of somewhere before.

Very good points you have made there brian.

I think that just comes with life experience…

But I want to be intelligent in all aspects! If only common sense was a book to read

Welcome to the club!

This article is so true!
My best friend had always called me ‘the dumbest smart person’ she knows! I do really well in exams but I do the most stupid things and seem to ask stupid questions. If I have read about something or made an effort to revise something in particular I will know it inside out, however I am not very good at forming an answer that I don’t know the exact answer to. I’ve never been able to explain it!

You see people like this all the time! I think a highly intelligent person however learns to step back a bit and develop the other types of intelligence in order to overcome those problems, however it’d be a hugely difficult thing to do.

That’s great insight. Thank you for sharing.