2007-03-21 04:56:08 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Neither. A person can be intelligent without having street-smarts, and equally a street-smart person does not have to be intelligent.
Street-smarts is more than just survival instinct. It's feeling a vibe and knowing when to be extra-careful. It can be learnt, whereas you are born with a survival instinct.
2007-03-21 05:01:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
''Street-smartness'' is something derived out of ''Book-smartness''. Only street-smarters of yesterday are known as book-smarts of today. Yes you are right, the instinctive to the survival mechanism, blended with creativity, uniqueness, approach to real life situations is what street smartness is about.
Name me one person, in this whole world, without any education or royal/political/wealthy background, who are really smart in business ? Iam sure that is rare. I believe in street-smartness, and thats from where genuises are born, knowing reality, experiencing them, mistakes after mistakes, loss over loss, and yet getting glorious to the end. Thats what make them winners...
2007-03-21 06:57:57 · answer #2 · answered by arya 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's definately an enhanced form of instinctive survival mechanism....
2007-03-21 05:07:01 · answer #3 · answered by ck0505_1 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Street-smartness is definitely a part of intelligence. Street-smartnes isn't just about a knee-jerk reaction. It's a complex decision making process spanning a ton of different contexts and situations...
2007-03-21 05:24:35 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are different categories of "intelligence", and "street-smartness" falls under the "survival" category. Other categories of intelligence may include; "economic", "mechanical", and "medicinal", to name a few, each with equal levels of value to society.
2007-03-21 05:02:27 · answer #5 · answered by julesl68 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't be street smart without being intelligent. But you can be intellegent without being street smart. i think street smart comes from intellegence, and being perceptive. Which is a form of survival mechanism
2007-03-21 05:05:37 · answer #6 · answered by michelebaruch 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, for sure it's "survival," but "street-smart" or "common sense" is just the experiential part of intelligence.
We start learning information from books as children, but it takes a few years before we've accumulated enough experiential input to develop things like intuition.
2007-03-21 07:53:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Street smart is knowledge of your surroundings(survival mechanism.) Intelligence is knowledge of what makes your surrounding(self realization mechanism.)
2007-03-21 05:28:50 · answer #8 · answered by stoutunicorn 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd say its a type of intelligence and a survival mechanism.
2007-03-21 05:02:23 · answer #9 · answered by Your_Star 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think street-smartness is a complex combination of creativity, practical intelligence, social skills and experience.
2007-03-27 10:17:46 · answer #10 · answered by Basil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋