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Streets you must overcome obstacles you face it makes you stronger and knowing how to navigate, books teach you how to be smarter and one up your opponent because you know more. But imagine a weak minded with no life experiance book smart person? They break when facing someone with street smarts first.
Because they did not and do not know how to deal with another person cause their reality was a book and not a personal interaction with others.
You have to know how your enemy thinks if you don't know you will lose a war or battle. In little round top Col Chamberlain in the civil war led his men down the hill when they ran out of ammo with just bayonets and a sword.
The South thought they had ammo with the way they were charging them and they got slaughtered and they picked up there weapons and won the war. If they would have waved the white flags, the south would have won that battle of round top was the turning of the Civil War and whoever won that battle was the winner & it sent Lee running.
They're but one trumps the other, how else was Malcolm X such a powerful speaker? Detroit Redd was street smart first, when he got locked into a prison he read a book and learned so much. The books made him smarter but it was the street smarts that made people listen and follow his cause. Cause he knew how to talk to everyone and a book can't teach you that.
I could read so much about China, but when I go to China I still will never understand their culture until I experiance it for myself. Other then that I would go down there embassies myself and being socially awkward with others cause the books told me this and that. But if I had personal experience I would have no issues moving around hhahaa
Agree.
See that's the thing people like malcom x and tupac and mlk are icons because they had a mixture of both. Education can take you so far but without street smarts you will be played. Manipulated and easily controlled.
But without book smarts you also can be played manipulated and controlled because you again can only do so much.
I used to say street. I was over 30 before I did any tertiary education and I had plenty of friends in senior management positions with no tertiary education qualifications.
Doing a degree expanded how I think. My experience is still more extensive than the subjects I studied, having lived on two continents and both hemispheres, but the challenges I encounter benefit from the nature of my studies.
Ultimately the situation determines whether what I actually learned in my studies is more useful than the practical experience I have. I didn't learn to build a fire using flints or make camp in a bivouac from books, I learned it from practical experience. That said, I learned how to identify certain fungi from books and how to spot what berries might be edible vs poisonous is best not learned by trial and error!
I read every reply, and it's obvious that many of the people who replied have very little street smarts. I'm talking about the people who said "both." lol
It's a two option poll, and you can only choose one option, or the poll is meaningless.
I chose street smarts. I feel horrible about the four girls murdered on the U of I campus in Moscow Idaho. Apparently the house they lived in had coded locks. But it was a party house, and pretty much everyone knew the code. If they had street smarts, they would never have shared the code with anyone who didn't live there. And they would have changed the code weekly. Now they're dead.
"It is necessary to frequent libraries, certainly; it is advisable, certainly, to become a scholar. Study, work, there will always be something left. And afterwards? If you want there to be an afterlife, I mean a future that goes beyond copying, leave the library and go out into the open air; if you stay in the library, you will only ever write books made of books. This knowledge, which is excellent, contributes to education, but the latter has as its goal something other than itself. Outside, you will run another chance. " Michel Serres
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The Homo sapiens wouldn't have made it this far as a species if we weren't "street smart". Survival instincts are absolutely crucial, and are the primary reason for our continued existence. Our academic knowledge only adds to what's available, making our lives easier.
A lot of the medical treatments were discovered by accident without knowing the explanation until many years after. Do you think this would've happened if it wasn't for people trying different ways to solve that problem? The analogy I like to use is that being street smart is equivalent to putting down the dots, and being book smart is the same as connecting the dots that already exist. They both compliment each other, but the first is more important.
Hopefully that explains it.
I think it is street smarts. I know people who never went to college that are extremely wealthy. They started their own business and just was really smart about it. Some of the most brilliant people I have met in college did not go on to do great things
Book smarts can enhance Street Smarts but street smarts is something u absolutely need.
Books are like the DLC to ur street smartness.
If u r street smart u probably can discover things never discovered before and solve problems never solved before
However if the problem was solved already u can also look it up in a book
However it is very very important that u develop both skills some people only develop their book smart and dont bother with developing their streetsmartness and vice versa
But ur only holding ur own potential back by doing so.
Street smarts is how dumb people justify fucking around at at school. They're the ones crying they can't get a job or that immigrants are taking their jobs.
End of the day if you don't have the qualifications employers ask for then your application in binned. Crying "but I've got street smarts" just doesn't cut it.
Being book smart is a luxury, being street smart is a necessity. That's the difference.
One is absolutely needed, and the other one enhances what you already have. Think about it like this:
If you were taken back to the hunting and gathering days, what would your priorities be? Getting food, or discovering black holes? Our main priority should always be survival, and then the rest is to make our lives easier.
You cannot drive a car without fuel.
@purplepoppy Wrong liberal poppy I have a good job and live in a good area in Southern California, it was street smarts that got me outta poverty, ask anyone in the US, you can't just move outta the hood in another state and move to California hahaha
I don't like illegal immigrants, imagine going to a country illegally and expecting citizens to like you, hahaha while all our tax dollars go to your pocket & you get free stuff.
That depends on where you live and how you live
See I grew up running the streets of Chicago & Milwaukee.
I have been homeless, been in lots of fights and was horrible in school
Never was in a gang, always on the side of good, but always got shit on
So for me, street smarts kept me alive
I was never much for book learning
They are both important but I would say book smart is far more important. A book smart person can be ome streets smart quite easily but a street smart person may struggle to become book smart.
Being streets smart is all about social skills. Nothing much beyond that.
And social skills is one that anybody can have unless one is just afraid of people. There is really nothing much to it. A person can be streets smart without having enemies.
I went with books. I think the street smarts are terribly important if you live in a large metropolitan area, but not all of us are in that situation. Book smarts have taken both of us pretty far, and I think you can obtain street smarts that are tailored to the area you live in as you mature.
Street smarts. Books smarts are overrated as hell. It's just something we are taught to value but literally doesn't compare to street smarts. We don't live in books. Gathering a bunch of general or even specialized knowledge is not impressive. Anyone can do that.
A lot of educated people think they are better than others because they went to college.
I cannot stand conceded people.
The truth is though most people do not have street smarts. It's very rare. You'll be lucky to meet just 1 person with it over your life time.
I think books, if street smarts really mattered then people wouldn't bothered attending college anymore to get degrees for certain career fields. If you need life saving surgery one day, I'm sure you're going to want the surgeon to be more book smart than street smart.
Honestly street smarts are not as valuable unless your really living on the streets everyday. Book smarts from the right books is worth more than any street smarts. People who claim to have street smarts usually are just letting their egos protect them when their intelligence is questions. “Like yea I don’t know about no quadratic formula but I got street smarts and that’s worth way more.” Sure it is if your dealing with people on the street but if you want to use your mind as something of a bargaining chip in the world it’s got to have something valuable in it. And right now information and problem solving skills with a degree of vision are highly valuable. Not knowing how to talk to someone who’s liable to get butt hurt if they are talked to the wrong way or somebody’s who’s dangerous. Read books people, the right books; they really do help.
This site auto corrects in the weirdest way. It causes so many grammatical errors. Just saying.
I think a combination of both is the best lol. Yeah I’d say street smart, you develop and friendly personality and also make yourself attractive for people to like you, want to work with you and hire you. But also book smart gives you some nice and relaxing jobs
Well both are ideal. Bud street smarts keeps you alive. Book smarts will just help you show off to the ladies.
True! That is actually more of an accurate description. Since the keeping one alive isn’t as often a part of the description.
You can always learn street smarts. Reading takes time and patience.. not to mention interest, to get the subject to stick.
Agreed.
People shouldn't glorify one to the detriment of the other. With that said there's nothing wrong with street smarts the way I think about it but it depends on what kind you mean. Street smarts as in knowing people, the "real game" of the everyday and such sure, but book smarts is still also what takes you further in life. A healthy amount of street smarts is necessary to not just be clever in theory, but without theory you won't make much of yourself either.
If you have book smarts , you wouldn't need to be street smart
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You may be socially skilled in the office politics but it does not mean you will also be good at street smarts. I am very street smart because i grew up in the ghettos. I can guarantee that the only way you can be street smart is to live in dangerous places for a long time. There is no other way to become street smart. Not at the office, not social skills, not being observant.
Not being observant?🤣
Yeah I'm not gonna be observant as this dude run up on me. (Pop pop)
Social skills do come in handy. You know who you to try and who not to try.
Knowing who to trust and who not to trust. What happens you lacking on these skills they find you dead.
Bein able to blend in and interact with people and your surroundings are the most important aspects of the streets.
I grew up in a small town but it was still ghetto. I used college to never get involved but i know and knew what it is like to live there.
And ibknow and understand how the 2 intertwin in 2 very different consequences.
It is why i am going to be teacher. I will do as much as I can to help as many people see how education and street smarts can help you get out and better yourself🤷🏾♀️
In the end it's street smart for me, but both is required
For you?
Yeah I agree🙏🏼
Knowledge is the key and it takes a lot of time to get it because knowledge spectrum is very wide. Being "street smart" is knowing human nature that isn't so complicated.
Street smarts. The best learning experience is on the battlefield.
What is a school librarian supposed to answer?
Any successful society needs a mix of both; innovators and tech workers and culture creators and preservers to make life worth living, and soldiers and police to make all of that possible.
At this point in human social evolution it is possible to specialize, but neither contributes less to the survival of civilization.
Street smarts are more important. I know a lot of people who are college graduates who are not Street smart. They only know what they read
You get more common sense from the streets than a book
Exactly true
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