How to Be Smart?

Posted by Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy on September 28, 2024

How to Be Smart?
How to Be Smart? – This is the only way I know to become a smart person is as under. I have been relentlessly attempting to follow. Sometimes, I fail. Having failed I restart again. This is what I want to be written on my epitaph ‘A man who attempted to become a Smart Man’.
 
  1. Read books with passion
  2. Pursue new mental models.
  3. Enjoy intelligent discourse.
  4. Admit when wrong.
  5. Comfortable to change opinion.
  6. Surrounding with intelligence.
  7. Seek to understand every perspective on a topic.
Understanding every perspective on a given topic is an impossibility. I am aware of this limitation. But, seeking to understand is smartness. True smartness is not about knowledge, but about a relentless curiosity and the willingness to embrace new ideas, admit mistakes, engage in meaningful discussions and imagination. This highlights the importance of surrounding oneself with diverse perspectives for growth.

About the Author

Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy is a seasoned internationally qualified Insurance professional. What you are reading here, may not answer all the questions we have, but has the absolute power of asking unsettling questions which increase the interest in the strange world, and show the contradictory wonders lying just below the surface of the commonest things of life. Look at this disturbing but beautiful thought of Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him”.

Dr. Reddy can be reached at: raja66gopal@gmail.com

One thought to “How to Be Smart?”

  1. Indeed, you are Super Smart sir. Reading your article a thought came to my mind to define why you are SMART.
    S – Sharp, Silence, Solitude loving
    M – Mindful in doing things
    A – Active Listener, Attitude of Gratitude always
    R – Reading Reading Reading with Passion
    T – Talking Less, Listening More

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