She said when he came to her research firm talking about social network, she was not at all convinced about his smartness , let alone his wisdom.But a year, year and a half later, when he came back, she almost thought it was a completely different person.
Comments? Yeah, please. You have a question in the back. Smartness is about thinking, wisdom is about doing.
Comments? Yeah, please. You have a question in the back. Smartness is always about the future you are creating.
It's exhausting, and it is not worth it. Second-- smartness is always about either a vision of the future, or what you have done in the past. Not worth it, because it doesn't give you the mindfulness of in the present moment.
Or machine intelligence, which is still far below biological intelligence, insofar as we're focusing on any form of general-purpose smartness and learning ability, but increasing at a more rapid clip. So specifically, you can imagine interventions on some individual brain to enhance biological condition.
So from that aspect, it's like a baseline. If the smartness is the new baseline at Google, and many of the Silicon Valley companies at this moment, how would you stay one step ahead?
Number two, they went up slowly. Maybe we associate smartness with speed, and wisdom with slowness. That's a frame pattern which we'll talk a little bit more about.
So let me start with a definition. Because the smartness is the new currency in the knowledge age, how do you really define it? We defined it in the book, smartness is the application of intelligence for self interest.
We defined it in the book, smartness is the application of intelligence for self interest. So practical smartness is about using your knowledge to get ahead, using your knowledge to become a leader when other people are not having the same opportunity, or to make money, to get a job, to move ahead-- different ways.
You need to have a title by creating a journey or a pathway from smart to wise so that people get some doubt. Maybe their smartness is not good enough, they'll buy it. So they said, first, it is going to talk about wisdom, but you have to be smart in the beginning to come up with
How do you really recontextualize smartness into wisdom? I believe the smartness is like a pendulum-- it swings to two extremes. One extreme, if it swings, I call it a business smartness , like an entrepreneurial smartness .
The wise leadership is anchoring the wisdom to your larger purpose. when you anchor your smartness with something larger as wisdom, then you can swing from one end to other end without the loss of face, because you're no longer committed to the questions, or becoming an expert in the room, but you're willing to look stupid.
Comments? Yeah, please. You have a question in the back. Acting with smartness , you may need more knowledge.
Now, everybody talks about an entire house, an entire community is becoming smarter. Because of this pervasiveness of smartness as the new currency, I wonder whether the smartness is a new definition for dumbness. Because if you try to really look at everybody being smart, you have to focus on something other than smartness if you
So sometimes, I wonder there are more limits to smartness than we pay attention to. The key to remember about smartness is today, you may be the smartest person in the room, but tomorrow there are no guarantees. Somebody else will come and take your position.
So what is this wise leadership? How do you really recontextualize smartness into wisdom? I believe the smartness is like a pendulum-- it swings to two extremes.
extraordinary people perform. And then, how smartness can help us and hurt us. What are the differences in smartness ? Some people are great in becoming domain experts, functional smart people who like to stay within their box and go deep down as a hedgehog and become somebody world
the language C++. So think about wisdom being S++, smartness plus, plus. So it's not about relinquishing your smartness but applying your smartness in a context-aware fashion. That's the first plus, recognizing that contexts keep changing all the time.
It will pay off later, because it's not paying off right now. The payoff at the lunch line isn't-- this smartness ain't paying off there. It's not paying off at PE.
That's traditional, simpler way to define it. But of course, smartness is not just about people. It is actually something that is pervading our culture.
"A fool thinks of himself to be wise, but a wise man always knows himself to be a fool first." So at some level, we are trying to say, smartness doesn't cut it to be successful, let alone in Silicon Valley, because of complexity that we live in, the ambiguity . Nobody can tell you exactly what to do, how to do it.
And the book is titled, "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy?" It's meant for people who are achievement-oriented like you guys, but sometimes we let our smartness and our success come in the way of our own happiness, which is like shooting ourselves in the foot. We want success because it's going to make us happy, we think.
Good afternoon. I think what today we'll talk about is to look at why the smartness is the baseline now. It is no longer something that gives us the privilege.
Yeah? Could be sometimes . Interesting. So definitely smaller number of hands than smartness , number one. Number two, they went up slowly.
Because the smartness is the new currency in the knowledge age, how do you really define it? We defined it in the book, smartness is the application of intelligence for self interest. So practical smartness is about using your knowledge to get ahead, using your knowledge to become a leader
going somewhere else. So where is your foot nailed to the floor is in your smartness . So watch out, and make sure smartness is not an addiction that you keep feeding, because unless you recontextualize it as wisdom, your personal leadership does not get recognized as much as you want it to be recognized.
He realized, it is an intergalactic cosmic noise, which got him a Nobel Prize for that. So sometimes, it is extremely important that smartness gets us focused on knowledge and what we know. But if you want to do 10x contribution to you or to your company, you may have ask more questions, and more questions
That's the first plus, recognizing that contexts keep changing all the time. And then, make sure that you apply your smartness with the right intent and right motivation. Rather than saying, oh, I'm going to show off how smart I am, it's more about how can I use my smartness to serve a
with these moonshot thoughts. And he says that, shifting perspective will unlock way more than smartness will. And so often when you're stuck, and you can't find a solution, or you feel like you're not moving through obstacles that
So I like that it's kind of bold, and it's quirky, and we have some sciencey symbols. And yeah, it kind of feels appropriate for strength and smartness and spectacularness. Yeah. What inspired you to write a book for girls and people who know them and have been them?
There are other paths, obviously-- smart drugs and such. I just-- I don't hold out much hope that they will do a great deal to improve general-purpose smartness . They might-- if there were a simple chemical that you could just inject and it would make you a lot smarter, I think evolution would find a way
when other people are not having the same opportunity, or to make money, to get a job, to move ahead-- different ways. It's all connected with, how do you make sure your smartness based off your own growth and development? That's traditional, simpler way to define it.
It is actually something that is pervading our culture. For example, this IBM has been calling this decade as the decade of smartness . They're trying to create what you might call a smarter planet, and how do we really begin to use our smartness for
He was pretty much a shoo-in for the President of France till he couldn't keep his clothes on. Sometimes, nobody talks about how to use your wisdom or smartness . But unfortunately, latest-- what you call-- records say that he's being charged with all kinds of charges, which are so demeaning to what could've
And of course, Bill Gates himself wrote a book on future of technology called "Road Ahead." It didn't have any mention of internet, by the way. So sometimes, I wonder there are more limits to smartness than we pay attention to. The key to remember about smartness is today, you may be the smartest person in the room, but tomorrow there are no guarantees.
Your signature strength of yesterday that got you to this job today is nailing your foot, and prevents you from going somewhere else. So where is your foot nailed to the floor is in your smartness . So watch out, and make sure smartness is not an addiction that you keep feeding, because unless you recontextualize it
23 years later, when this book came out, we realized what we needed to document was some good stories on how extraordinary people perform. And then, how smartness can help us and hurt us. What are the differences in smartness ?
But essentially, in a nutshell, something to kind of clarify, so wisdom for us is the application of intelligence to serve a larger purpose. So what we are saying is not that you need to kind of dial down your smartness , but find the kind of right purpose where you can apply it in a very context-aware fashion.
So I just want to kind of say that essentially a nice way to remember wisdom is many of you might be developers, you know the language C++. So think about wisdom being S++, smartness plus, plus. So it's not about relinquishing your smartness but applying your smartness in a context-aware fashion.
We have seen entrepreneurs where they start the company in Silicon Valley. Western problem solving. I think that is where we can be wise without losing our smartness .
It's basically just mechanics. Yeah, sure, sure. Yeah, in fact, so we need to distinguish between just the physical-- the mechanism itself of something that doesn't require positing any smartness on behalf of the organism, and what's truly intentional, thereby the type of behaviors that are sophisticated enough, regardless of their time scale, regardless
Would you give us any suggestions on how to find the lessons from adversity without having those catastrophic losses? And because by that, I mean when I drop down a little bit, you know, it's still higher than almost everybody else in my work ethic or my smartness for my sport.
For example, this IBM has been calling this decade as the decade of smartness . They're trying to create what you might call a smarter planet, and how do we really begin to use our smartness for the larger context of environment, population, technology, to work for everybody?
Because of this pervasiveness of smartness as the new currency, I wonder whether the smartness is a new definition for dumbness. Because if you try to really look at everybody being smart, you have to focus on something other than smartness if you need to get ahead.
You may have to be expand your circle of not only influence, your circle of interest to include your team, your organization, sometimes your community, and bring in the context of noble purpose, if you want to be successful, with your smartness . Interestingly, somebody says-- like, of course, William Shakespeare puts it quite nicely.
And finally, if you look at some of these people, I don't think there will be much of disagreement if we talk about their wisdom. One thing you might want to think about is, did they give up their smartness to be wise? Interestingly, when Navi and I were looking at the title for this book, we wanted to call it "Smart and Wise." That is
Third-- what is smart from one perspective may be foolish from another, and it doesn't translate very well to one culture to another. You may have to really begin to think about, maybe smartness is not the only way to be successful, and recognize that knowing and seeing the patterns ahead of everybody else is a trap, because it leads to ultimately
I believe the smartness is like a pendulum-- it swings to two extremes. One extreme, if it swings, I call it a business smartness , like an entrepreneurial smartness . The other extreme, what you call swings, I call it a functional smartness .
One extreme, if it swings, I call it a business smartness , like an entrepreneurial smartness . The other extreme, what you call swings, I call it a functional smartness . That means I want to be the head of my staff, I want to be the chief technologist, I want to be the CEO, even Nobel
Comments? Yeah, please. You have a question in the back. So when you have a larger purpose, when you have a noble purpose, your smartness can actually