I did spend some time trying to figure out, think, assess, estimate, and all other possible analysis I could do to title this post. But unfortunately I failed and hence the title. This can be classified as a paradox. May be. May not be.
We all live among people who make us believe we are smart and intelligent. The definition of smartness and intelligence changes from person to person. I call a person smart and intelligent who can use his or her brain and understand that using computers is as easy as reading and understanding a manual. I dont consider myself as a great developer but I can read the manual and I can write a computer program. Hence I consider myself enough smart and intelligent to call my self as a developer, who can RTFM and develop a computer program.
But this is not all. There are people around me who strengthen my believe and confidence. I am not so confident about my looks but I am confident about my smartness and intelligence. But my intelligence have been questioned numerous times. Like, how to prove a Thermocol is not bio degradable to a person who claims to know more than I know on any given topic? Or how to encourage your team mates to adopt HTML standards. I can force my team to adopt the standards, they are “junior” to me. But I can’t do the same with my team. They all are at my level and at any given time they are as smart and intelligent as I am and if the mess up HTML its quite right. They are smart and intelligent. This brings up a notion that intelligence is only questioned at work place.
No.
My driving intelligence, which I always agree is still under development, was questioned when I first drove a car on freeways, expressways and drive ways of US of the A. Why do people in this side of the word drive on right hand side? Intelligence questioned. But why do people call a liquid or a fluid, “gas”? Intelligence questioned.
People who has watched Bollywood movie “God tussi great ho” and Hollywood movie “Bruce almighty”, mostly Indians, must have
questioned themselves, why and who copied which movie? Damn it!
And talking of Bollywood movies, is Harman Baweja a clone of Hrithvik/Hrithik/Rithik/Ritik/Whatever Roshan or is it other way? And how?
I feel quite intelligent, in fact a genius, when I have answer for my wife’s questions, which is very rare.
