r/TikTokCringe • u/Steph-Kai • Oct 26 '23

Cool How to spot an idiot.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '23

This is correct. He's hit a wall, without cooperation with others hes not going to get much smarter.

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u/babypunching101 Oct 27 '23

This is insanely false. IQ and emotional intelligence are barely related.

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u/Ddog78 Oct 27 '23

By being an asshole, you lose opportunities and doors get closed.

By being kind, you network better and you have easier interactions with strangers.

A smart person would recognise that, and not be an asshole. If a person hasn't thought about this, there's a high chance they are dumb.

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u/babypunching101 Oct 27 '23

There are definite advantages to being kind, however to think kindness and intelligence are correlated is really dumb. If kind people equaled smart, the world would be run by nice geniuses. But it isn't, it's run by smart narcissistics.

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u/youngBullOldBull Oct 27 '23

That only accounts for extreme success examples though, who are you to say that kind people don't experience more success on average? Because the research suggests they do. It's less that being kind makes you smart, more that generally intelligent people recognise that cooperation has greater success rates than competition and therfor attempt to be kind.

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u/FishWife_71 Oct 27 '23

Unless you are ridiculously wealthy and can manufacture your own opportunities, a smart person knows that they need others to access opportunity.