Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Real Smart Date:   10/8/2021 1:21:43 PM

Lot of truth to this. The smartest people I know are very self effacing and have an innate ability to make complex things simple.  The wannabes have a tendency to make simple things complex and assume you will be impressed.  I worked with a really smart geophysicist in the oil industry. He would show me his interpretation of seismic sections and I would marvel at how easy he made it look...unlike me that had to grind away for hours to figure it out.  And I hated to play Trivial Pursuit with him and his wife (who had a PhD by the way).  They'd know the answer to some obscure question and he would always say, everybody knows that.