20 People Who Aren't as Smart as They Think They Are
RustyBuckler
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11/16/2021
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Here's a list of some particular people that aren't as smart as they think they are, as told by r/AskReddit. These people get all the credit, but maybe they're not as smart as we believe.
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I'll place my bet on Jeff Bezos. -u/Ferna_89
There is a book called The Everything Store. He tells this story about when they first started Amazon in a garage. "I didn't have packing tables,". "I said to one of the software engineers who was packing alongside me, 'You know what we should do? We should get knee pads.' And he looked at me like I was the dumbest guy he had ever seen in his life, and he said 'Jeff, we should get packing tables.'" He was successful pre Amazon and even when they were a billion dollar company, he knew the chance of failure was still high, this is something a lot of entrepreneurs ignore. Everyone has flaws, he’s very aware of his. -
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Programmers. I am a programmer and i spend 10 hours on a misspelled word. I saw other programmers spending a long time fixing a misspelled word too. -u/YouTube-r -
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Neil Degrasse Tyson. While he's an expert in his field, he has a tendency to over-extend himself and comment on areas in which he is not an expert. -u/IAlbatross -
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Criminal Masterminds are not as smart as many people think. Majority of the hardcore criminals did one stupid thing that got them caught. Timothy Mcveigh, drove without a license plate after the Oklahoma city bombing, and admitted that he had a loaded gun, and was arrested for that. -u/Carloverguy20 -
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Steve Jobs. He didn't really do much besides just tell smart people to bring his ideas to fruition. I can't remember which comedian does a bit on it but its spot on. -u/freestyle43 -
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Elon Musk. -u/WizzyGotBusyAgain
He tweeted about covid back when it was two weeks to flatten the curve and basically said with current trends it'll be over by the end of April or something like that.
He also decided to weigh in on treatment and baselessly criticized patients receiving high flow oxygen and was saying they should get low flow with legitimately no evidence at all.
don't forget when he proposed building a submarine to rescue the kids stuck in the Thai cave and then called the rescue diver who saved them a pedo because the diver pointed out the submarine wouldn't have worked (even if it could have been built in time) -
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Any television doctor, but a special shout out to Dr. Oz - who peddles homeopathic bullsh*t weight loss medicine that is legit dangerous for people. -u/GluttonAsteroth -
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Dr Phil. I hate crack psychologists.
I remember he had a particularly messed up guest. She was introducing herself and her whole litany of challenges; at the end, she meekly said, "I might be the hardest client you've had," with a nervous chuckle. She was clearly trying to lighten the mood.
Dr Phil proceeded to f**kin' lay into her. Yelled at her like, "I AM AN EXPERIENCED PSYCHOLOGIST I'VE DEALT WITH WORSE THAN YOU! GET THE F**K OFF YOUR F***ING HIGH HORSE!!!!"
And then he just f**king lays into each of her problems with zero empathy. Like Freud on steroids. - u/Cole__MacGrath__ -
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People who can solve Rubik’s cubes. We’re not smart, we just want people to think we are. -u/dudeiscool22222
Exactly. People think I'm so smart when I just memorized a process off of a YouTube video. It remains surprisingly hard to convince them otherwise though since said process is somewhat complicated. -
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Joe Rogan. -u/Cbuur
Lol my friend calls his podcast "GOOP for guys" -
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Stock Traders or other Investors. -u/NZNzven
“Everyone is genius when market is bullish” -
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Redditors. -u/Heatles40 -
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Parents - you grow up thinking they have it all figured out and know everything. Then you become one and you realize that it's all a facade you put on for your kids so they feel safe and secure. And there is something wholesome about that. -u/Christmas_Panda -
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‘Gifted or Smart kids’ I used to be one of these and as things get more challenging, there’s just more pressure from peers and parents. -u/EventfulTable20 -
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Mayim Biyalik. She loves to flaunt she’s a neuroscientist but hasn’t done any research in years. And she’s out there hocking a useless supplement called Prevagen that’s literal garbage. -u/KenKaneki94 -
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Ben Shapiro -u/Pharfromit
Ben Shapiro and Jordan Petersen are popular because they make dumb people feel smart. -
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Newt Gingrich is “a dumb person’s idea of a smart person” -u/starvere -
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Engineers. I am one, I work with a lot of them, most are some of the most inept humans I've ever had the misfortune to know. They're not qualified to do or think about anything other than the very specific thing they're trained to do, and yet they all think they're qualified to do any job. -u/YNot1989 -
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Bill Maher. Guy’s just a pompous, narrow-minded d**chebag with nothing of real substance to say. -u/ritzzzcrackers -
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Kanye West, the self proclaimed genius. -u/Strawberry3525
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I'll place my bet on Jeff Bezos. -u/Ferna_89
There is a book called The Everything Store. He tells this story about when they first started Amazon in a garage. "I didn't have packing tables,". "I said to one of the software engineers who was packing alongside me, 'You know what we should do? We should get knee pads.' And he looked at me like I was the dumbest guy he had ever seen in his life, and he said 'Jeff, we should get packing tables.'" He was successful pre Amazon and even when they were a billion dollar company, he knew the chance of failure was still high, this is something a lot of entrepreneurs ignore. Everyone has flaws, he’s very aware of his.
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