Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agoAs someone in stem who has never felt smarter than anyone how do you justify your sucess?message-squaremessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down14
arrow-up127arrow-down1message-squareAs someone in stem who has never felt smarter than anyone how do you justify your sucess?Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agomessage-square34fedilink
minus-square404@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·14 hours ago“If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.” Be curious, not comfortable. Never stop learning from those who are smarter than you.
minus-squarepinball_wizard@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-210 hours ago “If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.” Yes. I’ve been the “smartest” person in the room once or twice, during a crisis. It sucks! Edit: And by “smartest” I just mean “only one in that room remotely qualified to plan our response to the current crisis.” I don’t actually believe “smartest” exists. There’s just who has the experience most needed in the current moment. We tend to call that person “smart”.
minus-square404@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 hours agoOf course. You wouldn’t judge an elephant by its ability to climb trees, etc etc
“If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.”
Be curious, not comfortable. Never stop learning from those who are smarter than you.
Yes. I’ve been the “smartest” person in the room once or twice, during a crisis. It sucks!
Edit: And by “smartest” I just mean “only one in that room remotely qualified to plan our response to the current crisis.”
I don’t actually believe “smartest” exists.
There’s just who has the experience most needed in the current moment.
We tend to call that person “smart”.
Of course. You wouldn’t judge an elephant by its ability to climb trees, etc etc