As Shakespeare put it in his romantic comedy “As You Like It”: “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
- Potential signs of high intelligence include being messy and worrying a lot.
- As it turns out, smart people tend to sell themselves short.
- Check out the list below and see if any of these signs apply to you.
In other words, smart people often underestimate their brain power.
That idea is backed up by a Cornell University study conducted by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger. The phenomenon — now known as the Dunning-Kruger effect — is the tendency for those with low abilities in certain areas to overestimate their own competence, and those with higher abilities to assume the task is simple for everyone.
If you’re not too sure about your own intellect, it could indicate that you’re pretty intelligent — thoughtful enough to realize your limitations, at least.
Here are some subtle signs that you are considerably smarter than you think.
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