Smartest Guy in the Room Syndrome

[Junkenstein]

Playing with an idea for a moment, maybe not a bigger room : A better room.

Example - I can think of a few people I know who probably haven't read a book in their adult lives. One of them can tear apart pretty much anything motorbike related and has his own terms for practically every component. One would struggle to name an interest of theirs and probably couldn't tell you much about any of them. Guess which one I spend more time with?

I have a sense that we need to broaden and sharpen definition of knowledge. You may be the sgitr (in my head this becomes "smug git") when it comes to a something you know about, but I doubt you know more about everything than everyone. If you truly believe you do, you probably have some sort of severe personality disorder.

I see very little value in being tsgitr. If you are I think it likely that you have either not found an area of knowledge between the group and yourself that you are lacking in. This may be because it is of little interest to you or many other reasons. The big problem occurs when you cease trying to learn more about anything/everything.

I think what I'm trying to get at is we can never be sgitr, unless we choose to be. Mainly by not exchanging knowledge. Consider who benefits the room. Get more smart people in there! Get a better room!

As an aside, when considering the traits of sgitr I can't help but associate more than a few with the harpy from "The weakest link". The mindset and ethos of the show and presenter had a curious combination of praise and hate towards knowledge and success. Good choices were always second guessed, bad ones played to a further extreme.

I like this idea. I'm going to go and play with it more.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I think the implication was that SGitR is that severe personality disorder.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I think the implication was that SGitR is that severe personality disorder.

Yes. SGitR can never admit fault.

When he is right, he is right.
When he is wrong, you're wrong, not him.
When you prove him wrong, you were either unclear about what you meant, or you're somehow agreeing with him in some inexplicable way, or you're still somehow wrong.

What ever you do, you're doing it wrong.
If you're not doing it wrong, he can do it better and is more than happy to show you regardless of how less efficient, less rational or less cost effective his method is.

He's the guy who gives unsolicited advice.
He's the one who can't admit that your burgers are good because you didn't grill them like he does.
He thinks everyone looks up to him, and if they don't, it's because his genius is misunderstood.

[Junkenstein]

What I'm thinking about is more the room aspect. The sgitr never actually leaves his room.

I'm probably mixing my metaphors and trying to make this more BIP-ish than it may be. It just struck me that there's a bit of overlap here and one may well influence the other. That probably didn't come over very well. Writing is a bit of a struggle for me, I was raised to communicate through interpretive dance.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I get the sense that sgitr can and does frequently leave the room. He does after all have to so everyone how awesome he is at everything.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I think the implication was that SGitR is that severe personality disorder.

Exactly.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Also, it occurs to me that this board suffers from "smartest forum on the internet syndrome" and that's why you don't have many friends.

Speak for yourself. I've got lots of friends. 

The smartest guy in the room has the social savvy to know that a particular venue will or won't be conducive for his sort of "conversation", but will utterly fail at predicting the level of acceptance it receives with the other people at the place. Or at least that is what he will claim after it is all said and done.

The Smartest Guy in the Room has a lot of friends, but almost no close friends.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

The Smartest Guy in the Room says that he will do anything for his friends, and cites extreme loyalty as one of his biggest faults. He then talks shit about his friends behind their backs, which is okay because his "friends" do the same as soon as that pretentious git is out of earshot.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The Smartest Guy in the Room says that he will do anything for his friends, and cites extreme loyalty as one of his biggest faults. He then talks shit about his friends behind their backs, which is okay because his "friends" do the same as soon as that pretentious git is out of earshot.

This is SO TRUE.

And most of his friends are unsure of why they're friends with him, but can't quite seem to just disentangle themselves. Of course, the main reason is because of the tantrums he throws when he thinks he's been "betrayed"; it's easier to simply tolerate him for a few hours every other month or so while he gets shit-faced and tries to impress everyone in the bar by talking loudly.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Mine was a non-drinker. And like all non-drinking SGitRs, he would go on about how unhealthy alcohol is for the body and how stupid people are for consuming it.

[P3nT4gR4m]

he tries that shit with me, he'll be instantly relegated to the most injured guy in the room 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Mine was a non-drinker. And like all non-drinking SGitRs, he would go on about how unhealthy alcohol is for the body and how stupid people are for consuming it.

So many beautiful variations. Like snowflakes. Special, special snowflakes.

[Freeky]

SGitR will tell anyone and everyone how to parent, because he has three children.  Nevermind that they didn't ask for help, nevermind that they don't even have children, they obviously need his or her advice because they aren't doing it the same way or are thinking about doing it differently.


SGitR may occasionally hook up with other SGitR, but never ones who have different opinions.

[rong]

I find at work there are often several smartest guys in the room.

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

[hirley0]

Speak for yourself. I've got lots of friends.

Yes: &i have 0
WhiTch is 1 to many | i do have lots of Nations / Religions / & GoMint
Enemies HOWever. & 4 Sfo's too.
Never the less i do wish you would at least read the request | Link Later
yeah Reply #4: February 18, 2012, 05:16:11