Who's The Smartest?

The great philosopher Confucius once remarked, "If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room." Now this has set me thinking, no one could be the smartest. You can be the richest, tallest, healthiest, but never the smartest.

Everyone of us excels or specializes in one field or the other. Some may be good orators, others good writers, or actors, singers, painters, cooks may be, builders, teachers, calligraphers, philosophers, researchers, anything you can be good at, or be the best of all. But, everyone of the aforementioned people are smart in their own unique way.

Smartness manifests itself in various forms. Sometimes it shows up as the courage to stand up against wrongdoing, at other times in the form of stepping up to take charge of the situations, it is found in the innovations of people, in the works of writers and poets. Smartness can be the first step of a kid or the first word they write. It shows itself in the efforts put in to make things work, or in the workmanship of a worker, in the art of an artist, in the technique of a technician, the list is endless.

Thus, smartness takes different forms  in different situations. Hence, one could be smarter than others, but probably never the smartest.