Being clever

[Aspergers_Aspie]

I was interested to read this newspaper article on what it means to be clever:-

It’s not rocket science – researchers say we’re all as clever as aerospace engineers

 

[Shamar]

Sometimes I get too clever for my own good and end up outsmarting myself.

 

[ZebraAutismo]

Honesty I’m mediocre. At school I was described as the low side of average .

 

[risk]

We might run the same hardware, but by god we don't run the same software. There are some among us with a drive beyond that of the average Joe.

 

[Suzette]

Alas, one must have a paid subscription to read the article. I am too clever to bother.

 

[Richelle-H]

I just have a comment about cleverness in general. How do you protect your own self-interest if a clever idea of yours gets subsumed into something quite a bit larger. You can patent an idea, but not the cleverness that is the fountain of that idea. That brings up the issue of the fact that there are myriad forms of clever. You can think of any aspect of life and dwell on it a bit and you might think to yourself or express to others: "isn't that clever"!

I had a clever idea once to add a circuit on a port of a microprocessor that could determine a crash microseconds before it happened and perform a reset on the machine that the processor controlled thus reducing the need for human intervention. A colleague said I should patent it, but I realized that the time and effort it would take far exceed having a patent for a very limited application; and it would cost more than I would ever have made from it (not to mention I was at my Aspergian best during that time). Chalk it up to a moment of cleverness on my part and move on.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. -- PLATO

 

[Fino]

I don't understand why anyone in the first place considered jobs like those as being filled by people who are extraordinarily clever. It's just a major you pick in college. Complete the coursework. You're done.