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Smart is totally relative to what you're applying it to, so the answer is going to be totally different for different people. You can take someone who was raised on the streets and put them into a high end office environment, and if they can't read and write they might seem dumb. But take a high level exec and drop him in the Bronx, he'd be meat in about a minute, and all his "book smarts" wouldn't do him a bit of good. There's different kinds of smart, too. Book smart, life smart, intuitive smart. They can all be benifits or drawbacks given different situations. Myself I have a fair bit of "book smarts" because I spent a lot of time reading and researching, I have a lot of situations in which I can be smart, but again, it's relative. I'll go more with ModF's "well rounded"
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