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Asked by ease1tad to Abbie Y, Alexander dB, Alison, Erin P, hayleypincott, Martin M, Michael C, Michael S, Paul on 22 Feb 2024. This question was also asked by anon-385374, news1fad.
Question: how are you smart
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Martin McCoustra answered on 22 Feb 2024:
I don’t consider myself that smart… I’m just interested in what I do and can do it well. It helps that I’ve got a very good memory (though it’s not as good as it was).
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Erin Pallott answered on 23 Feb 2024:
I don’t think I am particularly smart. I used to find maths and science easier than other people in school, but I found languages much harder than others. I worked very hard at school to get good grades, they didn’t come easily to me.
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Hayley Pincott answered on 23 Feb 2024:
I’m not smart, I don’t think being a scientist is about being smart. It’s about wanting to find out the answers to questions. To answer these questions means a lot of hard work, reading research papers, books and knowing the right people to ask.
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Alison Benn answered on 23 Feb 2024:
I know someone to ask for help! It is not about what I know, but about knowing someone who does know. Friends and colleagues are very important.
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Michael C Macey answered on 26 Feb 2024:
I agree with Hayley that I don’t consider myself smart and that science is less about being smart than being driven – I am just a specialist who spent a very long time studying a topic (sciences in high school), specialised a bit (Biology for undergrad), specialised a bit more (PhD in microbiology) and then a little bit more (microbes that are specifically in extreme environments).
I think with the training anyone could do what I do but they would have to want to – I find what I do super interesting but a lot of people may not so given how much work it is they may not want to.
I also struggled a lot in school when I was young and didn’t start reading until a late age, and that was only thanks to the persistence of my parents (one ex-merchant navy sailor and a charity shop manager) – they had to balance work with raising two kids as well as helping me learn these essential things so they may be better to ask how they are smart 🙂
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Alexander De Bruin answered on 26 Feb 2024:
there are parts of my brain that could be thought of as “smart” (naturally fairly good at maths & physics), which was a combination of how I was born and how I was raised. I would echo the other comments in saying that I often don’t feel smart, but I am good at doing what I do
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Michael Schubert answered on 26 Feb 2024:
Intelligence itself is partly genetic and partly about your environment (how you were raised, how much learning you did when you were young, and things like that). I don’t think you need to be “smart” for a job in science (or anything else you want to do), though. I just think you need to be interested and motivated. Hard work is as good as – or maybe even better than – natural talent!
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Abbie Young answered on 6 Mar 2024:
I wouldn’t say that I am very smart. I just enjoy the area that I work in, so I am interested in what I am learning. This makes the learning a lot easier, as I want to learn more!
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