Well, well, here's some educational lesson again. *insert sarcasm*

To me, I think there are generally two types of intelligent people on the Earth, though I admit that there might be more kinds of smart people out there, but hey! I'm not correct all the time, kay?

I call them the:

"Real" Smart

or

"Act" Stupid

Mind you, before you start reading, I am not responsible for how you feel about this, because I'm just voicing my opinion out and will try to make it sound as neutral as possible. So, if you insist, go on and be angry at me.

Anyway, back to the topic, the first genre is the kind of people with brains and know how to make good use of them, to contribute to the society, to bring better life for everyone out there. These are the smart people out there in the world, and without a doubt, they are not afraid to openly express their "smart" ideas to people around them.

As for the "act" stupid type, I'd say they're lean towards the less appealing and shy side. Generally speaking, they're just the mirror reflection of the "real" smart people out there.

Don't get me wrong. Like, say, take person A as the "real" smart, and person B as the "act" stupid counterpart, that doesn't mean that they're smarter than it's other in term of intelligence. It's just a matter of how open-minded they are.

This, effectively, give rise to slight different experience. As a "real" smart person, people will usually expect you to strive, or perhaps, perform well all the time. This will inevitably create an intangible expectation from the crowd outside. Let's just say if this person happened to score well in an exam, people will just go "wah" for a short period of time and usually forget about it a second later. The reason behind this is because they presumed that he would, no doubt perform. However, things will go on a very different way if he didn't love up to their expectation.

Life like that is pretty stress and kinda revolves around some sort of achievement. Striving for external confirmation (quote from Tatt Hoong's blog). I'm not saying that it's an absolute for every "real" smart people out there, but hey, again, people can't live without friends. There will be at least some degree of external confirmation one would seek for.

And now, for the "act" stupid part, it will saves up some energy for explanation if I will just direct your attention to the metaphor. These two genres are kinda like the two sides of coin, almost opposite of each other in majority of the factors.

Just that, people don't usually expect "act" stupid people to achieve something extraordinary, and when he strives something unusual, like scoring 100 marks during the exam, people will usually remember it for quite some time. To some certain extent, it will also imprinted to the impression of others towards him. Think a little bit further, what will be the first thing that comes into your mind when you see him the next time? Perhaps, something like "Hey, he's that guy who scored 100 marks. We didn't expect him to perform that well!". Right?

However, as a writer of my own entry, I wouldn't be able to criticize this idea objectively. The only criticism I can think of it, as for now, is that after several attempts of achieving extraordinary results for the "act" stupid people, the community will start to accept them as a "real" smart people.

Don't you think so, too?


P/S: Forgive me for being vague at my wordings. At times, I kinda lost track of what I was going to type. And blame that on my overworked brain -- yeah, p2 is seriously a brain-juice draining class. Not forget to mention, overworked hands too!

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