The title does not represent the content of this note. I actually want to discuss about the differences between people that 'known' or 'considered' as a smart person and people 'considered' not smart person.
This is always become a question for myself. Is that actually 'smartness' is a gift? or It can be achieved by hard work? May be it is also a mystery for you that has spent many years experienced in the same class with people considered 'genius' or 'moron'.
So, before I explain my own theory, I want to differ person from smartness point.
1. really smart
is a smart person that consider him/herself as smart person and known as a smart person by society. Usually this person has many achievement and won many events or competition. He/she also good at academic skills and always happened to be the top rank in your school/class.
2. happened to be smart
is considered smart by his/her friends but not sure about his/herself. Usually person that has good academic skill but do not have another achievement, or has not won any single competition, and sometimes do not have particular skill.
3. average person
Is person that happily run his/her life without worrying his/her achievement to much. They do not have problem in their academic but also do not have particular achievement.
4. not smart person
Person that considered him/herself as not smart person because couldn't do anything well justified by society.
That's my description and no need to debate it because it is only a not important person's opinion.
So, here is the confuse about the description of smartness. I do always wonder 'what person is actually smart' and 'what make him/her smart?' In my theory, there is no person who are smart or not smart. Everybody has the same brain and it has averagely same potential. Smart and not smart is only a title given by society or surroundings based on some parameter. One of the parameter that is usually used by society is 'an academic record' parameter.
Smart and not smart is only seen by his 'hundred or not hundred mark' record. It is not an absolute parameter. We are often annoyed by this one. Because having good academic record doesn't indicate having appropriate skill. Another parameter is about his/her skill. Person is considered smart because he/she often easily solved the problem using his/her skill. For example, maybe he advanced in programming and he often taught the other else that haven't understand programming.
So, I conclude that smart is about mark and skill.
Okay, now we assume that we accept those parameter. So, the next question is, 'what makes people have an excellent mark in their academic record and another people don't?' and 'what makes people can do something great and another couldn't?
From the academic point, It is determined by the capability to solve the exam. From the skill point, it is determined by the understanding of a thing. And both of them is only matter or understanding and knowing. It is one conclusion that person can be smart or can not because they have or have not understand and known about a matter.
So, there are not exactly exist a smart person and not smart person in the world. There are just exist a person that has understand and person that hasn't understand.
'Just it?'
'No'
I am still not sure because It lead to another question.
'what makes people could understand faster than the others?'
Nah, we almost arrived to theory that smartness is a gift. How people understand and how fast the understanding process is determined by his/her brain capability. So, I can say that it can't be changed, It has been a destiny, this is that makes people different from the start and may be to the end.
'Do you agree?'
'I am not'
Because it just a matter of time, understanding is just about time. No problem if they could understand faster because when we reach in the same understanding, there are no difference. The problem is we have to be able understand in a reasonable time.
So we don't have to worry about this smartness anymore, we just have to study harder, learn harder, to catch up with the genius one. When we arrived at that matter, we will be same.
It is almost the end of my explanation. But my friend ever said that what makes the a person really smart is the concentration capability, how long and how deep he can concentrate. Hmm, personally I agreed with that. If I relate this theory to the previous explanation, higher concentration will affect in faster understanding. Yup, for you that have problem in understanding, just try to concentrate more, I think it will worked.
In the end, we can assume that smartness is not a gift anymore, we can train it. Moreover, those smartness is just judged from society point of view. If we want to be smart, just believe that we are smart. :D
