How did you get so smart?
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Went to a Deadhead convention. Surprised to find real dead heads laying around, some quite bright. The rest is history.
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Hung out with you
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Paint chips. (Joke) :-D
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If I'm smart, it's by the Grace of God giving me the drive and desire to learn, be observant, and study when needed. It's of none of my own doing. I have to give the honor and glory to God.
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I chose to listen when others spoke, instead of just waiting for my turn to speak.
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If you ask my husband, he'll tell you it's these pants I'm wearing...you know, "smarty pants" :-)
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genetics.
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What little I know comes from realizing that, given what there is to learn, I'm not so smart. I've learned more by stepping backward to gain perspective than I have by charging forward ill prepared.
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I'm sure it was from years of reading the back of cereal boxes during breakfast.............
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Momma done taught me good!
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By the time I reached an age of 15 or so I realized that what those considered wiser and elder to me talked about was a lot of crap. From then on I have been using my brains analyzing what they said before following their instructions. This way I have been able to carve out a path of my own in this jungle called the world. Not that I have grown any smart, but I have survived this long. That is an achievement in itself.
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I learned from my failures and I failed on most of the things I tried the first time.
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Blood, sweat, and tears!
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A little ability, a lot of hard work, lots of experience, lots of mistakes and using my ears a lot more than my mouth.
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I got smart enough to realize how little I know.
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Read... EVERYTHING... Books, comics, newspapers, cereal boxes, my grandmother's Reader's Digests and Upper Rooms, etc. Started working when I was 11 (real work, no paper route, here!) Watched a LOT of TV... Listened to a LOT of music (records, radio, tapes, etc.)... Learned to learn, and like it... And banged my head on those damn door closers a LOT when I was younger. (Knocked a LOT of sense into me, I guess.) ;-)
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I think you are born with inate intelligengce. My IQ just turned out to be pretty good. I also had 19 years of education. However, my dad didn't even graduate from high school and he was a smart man. Smarter than me in many ways. He gained most of his smarts through life experiences.
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My Uni motto was 'Be Still and Know'. I always translated to 'Shut up and Listen'. Seemed to work for me!
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"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently" - Henry Ford I failed many times :)
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By listening and learning. -
Your talking to me? LMAO
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I ate my vegetables.
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I was yelled at until I was. :)
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I've always been a smart dresser ... ;)>♥<
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I think I am smart for a primate, partly due to interiting the genes of my fairly smart parents, and partly up to having attentive parents who wanted me to learn.
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Studied really well in school, read lots of books, read internet articles and listen to people that are wiser and smarter than me. +5 Sixty B
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I didn't know I was.
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THANKS TO MY PARENTS I WAS BORN SMART.
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I didn't. Smart went right out the window, but hey when it did ~ lucky stepped right on in :)
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I WAS BORN A TWIN. THE OTHER DIED, NOW I'M TOLD BY EASTERN SOCIETIES THAT I'M THE SMARTEST PERSON ON EARTH. http://www.inventube.com/ooojay/blog/
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Beat Covid, Avoid Republicans This happened to Elvis.
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school, reading and good common sense
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Smoking pot....
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I had smart parents.
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