Would you like to be the smartest person in the world?

Question

Why or why not?

-Please provide serious and thoughtful answers with logical reasoning or examples (an exception: if your answer is really really funny) but serious answers are preferred.

Answer 1

The term Smart/Intelligence spans a broad range of mental capacities and associated attributes (from street smart to math smart), and unless you specify what sort of intelligence you are talking about, it would be quite impractical to address an otherwise vague and unmeasurable question effectively (take a look at Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences, for instance). If, on the other hand, by “The Smartest Person in the World” you are referring to a person with Absolute Universal Intelligence (in other words, someone highly apt at all seven kinds of Intelligence, as defined by Gardner, for instance – which btw is a practical improbability as some of those separate categories of intelligence are organically incompatible with one another), then I would venture to say that such a person would be a total personal and social misfit. Having said that, there have been quasi-eligible examples of such Absolute Universal Intelligence in the history of humanity, but curiously enough none of them has ever made a major/lasting contribution to humanity – the most they have been able to do is to pull impressive circus-like mental rabbits out of their peculiar heads. In other words, they have been merely masters at demonstrating curious, but mainly entertaining, feats of mental joggling. Historically speaking, most bona fide geniuses (those who have made truly revolutionary and lasting contributions to humanity) have been exceedingly great at one or perhaps two areas of intelligent categories. Obviously, one can make a valid argument that there is a great degree of satisfaction to be derived from being a genius at anything – from playing the electric guitar like the late great SRV to doing physics like Einstein. But even then, there is a valid case to be made against humanity’s exclusive reliance on its limited genius pool (yes not every child is a genius as his/her parents might imagine) as the only fuel for its accelerated evolutionary progress. In fact as we all know, the brunt of most human progress has always been carried squarely on the shoulders of countless unsung yet highly intelligent people/heroes (though not necessarily geniuses) whose perpetual incremental contributions exponentially aggregate to form the bases of our ever-growing body of knowledge and technology. So I would say, yes it’s wonderful to be a genius at something and just as equally nice to be good at what you do to contribute to the ever-increasing matrix of human understanding and experience – that is, as long as you are also emotionally and spiritually smart enough and prepared to balance your innate quest for Meaning with loving fun and compassion for others.

Answer 2

Why the strange question? Why do you prefer serious answers? How is it possible to even determine the "smartest" person? By what standards?

If you asked if I preferred being the richest, most famous, or handsomest, or strongest, or dumbest, or most popular...my answers would be no, I would not want any of those things.

But smartest? Is there any harm in being "smart", or as I would prefer, intelligent? No.

So my answer is....yes, I would not mind being the most intelligent person in the world, as long as I also had the gift of knowing how to use that intelligence.

Answer 3

No. "Brainiacs" are sometimes impossible to deal with. Also, if I was the smartest person in the world there would be nothing left for me to learn, or at least that is what I would think. It would also cut back on the fun of the learning process with trial and error. If I was the "SPITW" there would not be error.
Wait....come to think of it, I could be president if I were and get that damn dumb a** out of there! LOL.

Answer 4

the best individual in the international is: international-favourite physicist Stephen Hawking. Hawking, fifty one, gained repute in 1988 with the ebook of "a short historic past of Time." The e book later develop into made right into a movie of an identical call. He holds the professorship at Cambridge college once held with suggestions from Sir Isaac Newton and did floor-breaking analyze on the concept of black holes.

Answer 5

No because I would be considered foolish and I would be ostracized by the masses. Just imagine: our teachers utilize 10 percent of their wisdom potential. I will say no more. Check this book out about people who have risked their lives to find fragments from the Library of Alexandria. Look how much wisdom was believed lost, and look at the back-up storage systems of yesteryear. It has become a reference book for a group of us called The Grail Seekers' Club: www.trafford.com/04-2126 and www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1412043190

Boaz.

Boaz.

Answer 6

Yes, so that I could go on to provide a series of logical reasons and examples to back me up on this.

Answer 7

No Way - where would you go for intelligent conversation? There would be maybe a handful of people on the planet that wouldn't be dumbasses compared to you...that would get old in a hurry.

Answer 8

no cuz then i'd have to make tons of speeches and what-so and then yeah so no i wouldn't want to be the smartest person in the world

Answer 9

No. The older I get the more I believe in the saying "ignorance is bliss"

Answer 10

not really because i would not be able to expand my knowledge and i would live a bland, un-interesting life