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They are often very smart at many things.\n\nAlthough I have not done a scientific study on this, I have not obtained a Phd on the subject, nor have a read of scientific study by someone else with a PHD, I think it is fair to say that smart people do stupid things just as much as not-so-smart people. If anything smart people do stupid things more often.\n\nWhy?\n\nYou would think that having a higher intellect would protect smart people somewhat?\nThere are many types of “intelligence”.\n\nThe somewhat new theory of Multiple Intelligence breaks down the classical view of intelligence into 9 classes: Naturalistic, Musical, Logical-Mathematical, Existential, Interpersonal, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Linguistic, Intra-Personal, and Spatial — see https://examinedexistence.com/the-nine-different-types-of-intelligence/. 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Wikipedia suggests that Wisdom is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, and insight. I suppose another way of trying to understand something is to look at its opposite: Foolishness. Wisdom is the ability to discern between what is Wise and what is Foolish.\n\nI never really liked the 20th Century. Everything seemed to move too fast in some ways, and too slow in others. Flight and train schedules seemed to determine everything, thinking about why you are going somewhere not so important. However, the 21st Century has left me even more profoundly disappointed. The 21st Century has become the Century of Foolishness. People around the globe are encouraged to study, work hard, focus on this or that, become GREAT at something, push hard, dream big, think positive, don’t give up, move ahead, etc. etc. etc.\n\nThat does not leave a lot of time for thoughts like:\n\n* Why am I here?\n* What is the meaning of life?\n* What is really important?\n* What is the difference between happiness and satisfaction?\n* What does it mean to be ethical and why should I care?\n* What is the difference between right and wrong?\n\nI could go on.\n\nBut I won’t. People don’t care about any of those things. Why bother when you dream of driving a new car, or living in a new house, or getting a new phone, etc. None of those question are going to help you get any of that!\n\nSo instead we learn how to build better devices and to sell them to others in interesting and alluring ways all without thinking about why we are doing anything. That is stupid if you ask me.\n\nSo why do smart people do stupid things? 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