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View Poll Results: Booksmart or streetsmart?
Booksmart - high IQ correlates with success 8 80.00%
Booksmart - high IQ correlates with success
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Streetsmart - might not be Oxbridge material but I'd rather have my wits about me 2 20.00%
Streetsmart - might not be Oxbridge material but I'd rather have my wits about me
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Old 04-07-2017, 02:43 AM #1
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Would you rather be academically inclined and analytical or streetwise and hard? Theoretically or practically adept?
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You chose books. I chose looks
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I'd go for books if I had to choose.
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Reasonable at both I guess.
Common sense can be more valuable than academia at times.
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You chose books. I chose looks
That is very short-term thinking. It doesn't matter how good looking someone is if they are thick as sh**e and/or no personality - most would be bored by them. Not to mention looks fade quite quickly and only last for short percentage of your lifespan - you only have to see all those sad women spending thousands trying to recapture their youth and looks - it never works.

Most of the the time they look worse than if they just let nature take its course. Too much partying and not enough taking care of yourself quickly takes it toll.
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Would you rather be academically inclined and analytical or streetwise and hard? Theoretically or practically adept?


I am one of the most intelligent people in the world but can you explain the question - I don't understand it
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the streets are my books, the gutter my teacher and the stars are, not really visible due to shocking light pollution

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That is very short-term thinking. It doesn't matter how good looking someone is if they are thick as sh**e and/or no personality - most would be bored by them. Not to mention looks fade quite quickly and only last for short percentage of your lifespan - you only have to see all those sad women spending thousands trying to recapture their youth and looks - it never works.

Most of the the time they look worse than if they just let nature take its course. Too much partying and not enough taking care of yourself quickly takes it toll.
Its a quote from a film, calm down
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Its a quote from a film, calm down
Perfectly calm thank you.
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Perfectly calm thank you.
Oh good, you've calmed down in the six hours between making a ridic rant at a film quote and now lol.
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Oh good, you've calmed down in the six hours between making a ridic rant at a film quote and now lol.
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Some of the stupidest people I've ever met have a degree, some of them more than one. Conversely, I know some very successful people who didn't do well at school for one reason or another and yet have excelled in their career or in building a business. It all depends on the individual, I reckon.
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Some of the stupidest people I've ever met have a degree, some of them more than one. Conversely, I know some very successful people who didn't do well at school for one reason or another and yet have excelled in their career or in building a business. It all depends on the individual, I reckon.
Yeah. Some peeps are born hustlers and others just have to compensate with book smarts to make up for their lack of street sense. It's an individual thing for sure, innit.
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Its a quote from a film, calm down
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Neither.

Edit... I'd rather be booksmart.
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