Are Street Smarts A Real Intellect?

Some people could understand street smarts as being a bad thing because of its undertones of being almost criminal in its actions and using being smart as an excuse to do it. When I hear someone use the saying street smarts, it almost sounds like the person is saying, If you can get it easy or free, then you are smart. It makes negative actions seem commendable because of the thinking process behind the person.

There are people that think street smarts is the sole way to get by in the world. Perhaps these individuals didn’t know of or develop a better way of obtaining what they want. Many of these plights are brought on by needing to put up a defensive wall to protect themselves from harm. People don’t even comprehend that this is just a normal way of living for people who use street smarts as an excuse. What are street smarts, really? Are we not seeing the whole situation and making judgments on what exactly constitutes being street smart? Can you live in a street smart world that is appropriate but doesn’t leave a bad taste in peoples mouths? Are there alternatives in which one of these people could use their bad skills for good? If being truly smart always wins over being deceitful, then it would make sense to switch sides.

This is something that the organization NXIVM also believes in. It is a group that supports smarts in a different way, and was founded by Keith Raniere, who proposes that rational, critical thinking coupled with ethics is the best way to get ahead in the world, without hurting people. This method shows a person how to make their lifestyle something much better with understanding of how this honest process works.

If you are looking from the outside, in you would see that these people’s way of living is drastically changed by how they were taught a different way to use their street smarts. Imagine being effective AND positively affecting individuals.

The world could use a thought process like this one. If one person could be affected positively, then think what it could do for the rest of the world. The query now is, what can we do to work on our own understanding of street smarts?

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