I'm a dumb person. I did very poorly in school; barely graduated; never attended university. My parents aren't that smart either; they're just ordinary working class people (so there's no winning genetic lattery of intelligence). To me, personally, a smart person is someone who catches information quickly, is able to understand complex things with little effort, and who can comprehend that information and make sense of it. To be honest, I'm none of those things. And it's fine. Some people aren't meant to be smart. If someone is intelligent and uses their knowledge for good, I have respect for those people. They made a difference for all of us. But if someone claims to be smart and yet puts other people down by being arrogant, negative, and toxic, I couldn't care less about them and their high IQ, intellegence or whatever. At the end of the day, the two things I value most in others are kindness and curiosity. Meaning, you might not be smart enough to dig deep into complex ideas, but at least you have to be interested in learning about the world and humanity. That's what I'm striving for.,(reply>), Don't worry about it man. There are a lot of people with average or below average IQ's who work hard and do much better in life than people with very high IQ's. It happens relatively frequently. Intelligent people do well in life a lot of the time, but intelligence is definitely not predictive of success. Kindness and curiosity are two important things to value. People definitely overvalue intelligence a lot of the time. Their are definitely more important things in life than intelligence.