Street Smart, what are books going to do for you if you have no sense of anything else in life. My stepsister is book smart but not street smart, she can’t do much for herself, she calls her dad for everything.
As scamp said, depends on the battle. if you’re on Jeopardy, it doesn’t matter how hard you can hit Alex Trebek, if you don’t know the Flight speed of a fully laden swallow (be it African or European) you are going to lose. But if you are in a bad neighborhood and you are looking through your wallet as you walk down the street, well, no word spelled out on a double word and triple letter score is going to save you.
Perhaps these labels (all of them) oversimplify us. Everyone I know is more than just either/or – and that is including my friends from the local HS who help me out w. property maintenance here. Life is certainly less boring that way – but I only speak for myself.
@Bulb; ah, I am SO out of it. Thanks for the definition. The generation gap does seem to getting bigger exponentially due to the ever-increasing speed of the info highway.
I think street smart actually outweighs in the end – there are countless examples of millionaires that never graduated from high school, and brilliant professors that can barely figure out how to feed their families. The cat that is way street smart but doesn’t have a clue who Poe is will most likely have a better time at life than the Physics geek with two friends, one of them a fem-bot.
It really depends on the battlefield…..if you’re either booksmart or streetsmart – why not team up with someone of the other smart-type to increase your ‘smartness’...
If you’re fortunate enough to be strong on both – well, then you’re just superior :)
@shockvalue Ha ha!! Your Mother was a hamster and your Father smelled of elderberry!(And from my favorite scene) Come back you pansy, I’ll bite your legs off!! Thanks for the laugh.