un-smart

What i love about the workplace is that you learn a lot. Not just about your job and how to do it better but about other people's jobs, personas and behaviors. You see examples that you want to copy and others you want to avoid. It's social exposure at its best.

What i've recently noticed is that new to the division of smart versus stupid, there is a lost category and it is that of the un-smart. Some people are stupid but are just not smart (often when they're job requires them to be very smart). This is nothing to do with task completion or showing results or managing this or that, but it is about daily behavior and the little decisions that blow up into huge problems. Unthought out decisions.

See, the difference between stupid and un-smart is that stupid is a lifetime label, a place of doom for limited minds. On the other hand, un-smart is wasted potential. People have the mental capacity to make better decisions but they don't just because they are un-smart like that. Un-smart is something that, if slightly adjusted, would prosper. Stupid needs a full revamp.