01/26/2017

12 Ways to Tell Someone Is Really Intelligent

Confidence is too often mistaken for competence

It doesn't take much experience of the world of work to figure out that it's not always the most competent people who rise to the top. Nor is the fact that someone has a strong opinion on a subject a reliable indicator that they know anything much about it.

In short, blowhards often manage to sell themselves as skilled, and overconfidence is frequently rewarded. (If you doubt the evidence of your own eyes on this point, then there's plenty of scientific evidence proving the point.)

So how can you avoid being taken in by the loud and self-assured, especially when you're not an expert in a field yourself? What are the best ways to quickly and accurately sort the genuinely competent from the merely confident?

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