Sure, your friends always tell you how clever you are. If you want more than average out of life then you need to be street smart, you. Are you someone who learns well or someone who seems to just know things about society. Take this quiz to find out if you are more street smart or book smart. Street smarts also known as practical knowledge or common sense is essential to orienting yourself in everyday situations, whether its getting around a new neighborhood, keeping yourself safe, taking risks or making decisions. How could i admit that the allamerican girls force field of stoicism and selfreliance and dountoothersandkeepsmiling wasnt working. On a scale of 110 how book smart are you, and how street smart are you.
Graff believes that having the personality of a street smart person can benefit society if one knows how to channel their potential correctly. There will be five personal questions on your daily routine and ten questions made on what you d do in situations. Jun 18, 2014 whether one is more versed in street smarts or book smarts depends on the circumstances one has grown up under. Even though youve likely learned this back in grade school, for some reason, many adults continue to mix up the words their, there, and theyre. When you are street smart, you re able to keep yourself out of trouble by detecting scams, reading people, and handling yourself during tough situations. Mar 18, 2016 and lets face it, book smart is something you can bank on, while street smart is more of a flybytheseatofyourpants level of value. Many of my friends werent this way, but they were very book smart. You walk around looking confused, trying to read numbers on the buildings. Sep 05, 20 well, lets broadly define being booksmart as just being proficient in some areas of knowledge, without implying anything else. You may not have done the best on quizzes or term papers, but you are very observant and perceptive person. You can learn how to be book smart in school but even someone with a harvard degree can still lack common sense. What do you call people who are book smart, but not street. Jul 27, 2006 i think street smart is better, depending on what smarts you have, i guess, bc u know what its like out in the real world and you r in a way molded based on that, that doesnt mean book smart is bad in any way, its good to have both though. If an creepy old man approaches you, and asks you for some money how would you handle the cituation.
He persuades his views to the readers by using his personal. I mean, getting a degree is what will get you into a good career. Herald thinks his new coworker from china will be book smart but have no creativity or street smarts. The street smart superrich credit the book smart for their mastery of a sophisticated topic, which is why they hire these. Dec 09, 2015 book smart is simply describing that the person as generally intelligent, well educated and do well academically. We dont doubt that youre an intelligent person, but did you know that intelligence can be separated into categories. Street smart is built on the latest web technology standards html5. Thats the difference between being book smart and being street smart. You have to get to an address down the street from your hotel.
Oct 12, 2017 voa learning english presents news, features, audio, video and multimedia about the u. Just like they can bend and learn a little from you, you can stand to learn a little something from them also. You cant judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well, so that the real ones cant find you. If someone comes up to you and points at you with his gun, and says, give me your money. Book smart or street smart who would be your choice. If you want to be street smart, the best way to get out there, get in the thick in the things, and learn how to handle situations by being in them in the first place. Why you need to be street smart, not book smart better. May 23, 20 street smarts trump book smarts if you want to get seriously rich. But if you are street smart you might gravitate towards sports.
If you pass, go on to the next quiz, are you knowledge smart if you fail, you fail. Being street smart beats being book smart any day of the week. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Take this fun personality quiz to learn what kind of smarts you have.
The difference between streetwise and book smart goes deeper than just intelligence or knowledge, however. Most people spend a small fortune on a college education for book smarts but when you get in the real world, you must also have street smarts. So take this quiz,and ill be waiting with your results. If you consider yourself a wiz when it comes to riddles, or if you just need a break from the hectic world around you give this quiz a try. Why street smarts always win out over book smarts when it. Theres money smart, theres movie smart, theres computer smart. However, the underlying idea is that the person deals with situations especially bad or difficult situations from an intellectual d. You can easily access the imagery without any changes to your existing it infrstructure.
You dont learn how to do your laundry in earth science class, and you dont learn how to interview for a job in algebra class. Dont you worry, weve got the best mind teasers, trivia, and general knowledge questions to test how smart you really are when it comes to all things knowledge, education, and more. Feb 27, 2018 you re in luck, because weve got the best mind teasers, trivia, and general knowledge questions to test how smart you really are when it comes to all things knowledge, education, and more. Do you have the common sense that most street smart people seem to have. Theres just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
Street smarts vs book smarts, the epic debate continued. If you consider yourself a wiz when it comes to riddles, or if you just need a break from the hectic world around you, give this quiz a try. Being street smart means having interest in other activities more than in school work, while being book smart is the complete opposite of that. Even if youre a streetsmart person, well give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you definitely know theyre is a contraction of they are.
It has a lot to do with your preferred learning style, and which way you perceive the world. Whereas, street smarts refers to the experiential knowledge on things. Typically, if you are more of a book smart person, you are going to gravitate to the things that you are good at like learning from a text book. On the flip side, being book smart comes from being wellversed with books. While people with book smarts may be able to study all week and ace a midterm, they may lack some serious common sense or the ability to converse and interact with people with ease, which comes naturally to those who have learned through their experiences, rather than classroom instruction. At some point in life, we all learnt that someone can be very intelligent and still lack common sense. Street smarts trump book smarts if you want to get. Generally, people who are not book smart ie didnt go to school, arent particularly good at any subject, etc etc try and make themselves feel better by claming that people who actually are smart arent street smart like them. Instead, you are far more likely to believe something is commonplace if you can find just one example of it, and you are far less likely to believe in something you ve never seen or heard of before. Book smarts refer to the education, schooling and other kinds of knowledge that one has acquired. It solely is a theoretical understanding of facts or ideas. You have a good head on your shoulders, and as long as you trust your instincts, you know you ll be fine in this world. If you are book smart, you are likely to get hired by top notch companies who will pay you in luxury but at the apex of that company, perhaps the very owner, the name behind the brand will mostly be a street smart.
Theres book smart, there is street smart, theres relationship smart, theres too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Many people are book smart,cook smart,and even athletically smart. Now, its time for words and their stories from voa learning english. We all agree that being smart is better than being stupid. Take this quiz to find out if you re smart or just lackadaisical.
As for the street smart folks, stop avoiding book smart people as if youre going to catch some disease from them. I learned from an early age that street smarts and book smarts had great value, but the most successful people had a strong balance of both. This 60 second quiz will reveal if you are more book smart or. This quiz aims to tell you which of these two types of smart you seem to have. Some people really love school, but some people really cant stand school. When it comes to intelligence, are you more knowledgeable or savvy. Stories are written at the intermediate and upperbeginner level. Test your smarts with these savvy questions to find out if youre book smart or street smart. Jan 31, 2014 the truth is, being book smart and street smart has a lot more to do than just your upbringing and personality.
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