One often meets these smart people who have flair for smooth talking, who often tend to over-talk on whatever topic is dished out and who are overtly overconfident about themselves. You always find them interesting at the first impression. But when you get under the hoods, a while later, you often are left disappointed with the results. I have met quite a few such persons and am sure you must have as well. So this one is to their dedication.
On the first appearance, they all generally appear well dressed, cool, yet modest, well mannered yet smart, etc. In short they exude all the traits of someone who has attended the finishing school. As you get talking you start noticing that they can surely be referred as a person of many words. And to put it in a sophisticated yet sarcastic way they are more like – A man of thousand words, when one would do.
The one good thing is that it is highly unlikely that your conversation with them will just hang all of a sudden with a awkward blue screen (this is typical computer lingo) that seldom leaves you wriggling in an uncomfortable ‘what the hell do I do now’ feeling.
The noticeable trait about all of them is the apparent diversity of topics they can communicate on. If your conversation skims through a couple of topics of you interest, it often lets you to believe that your wavelengths match to the brim; And if this person is from the opposite sex, you find it as an amazing coincidence; And if you are single, you think its just destiny that bought you together!
As they continue to talk at lengths on any topic that you float, you start understanding the reason for their home cultivated over confidence about one selves. Some of them are so good at this apparent confidence in themselves that they can even leave a car mechanic convinced about the way he misdiagnosed a problem in their car.
They all believe or rather want others to believe that they are the ones with high intellects, and who tend to get along with people whom they can interact at a more intellectual level. Now this statement should be taken with a pinch of salt and it shouldn’t surprise you if their best mate turns out to be a blonde from Iowa.
But their diverse arsenal of interest is really something that leaves you agape. They talk of the Liverpool team just as enthusiastically as they would discuss Bermuda’s cricket teams coach or flaws in India’s and Great Britain’s constitution or Volvo buses better aero dynamics owing to its low raise driver’s seat or the nice lyrics of the Beatles songs or the AIDS research work being headed by Dr. Helsinki. It’s not the accuracy of their talks that impresses you, cause more often than not their knowledge is only skin deep, and their facts are just as accurate! But what astonishes you is the confidence with which they deliver their two plus two equals twenty-two sort of perils of wisdom.
These people also very often have better than average career paths that surprise you at the least if not leave you annoyed. And you can’t stop wondering what is more important in life, confidence or over confidence, or its street smartness and smart ass attitude of these pseudo intellects, or whether it’s the deep-rooted principles of honesty and simplicity or to posses the intelligence of the likes of Einstein.
On a serious note, if you think even deeper is it just the sheer positivism that these people posses about their abilities or more appropriately their perceived abilities?
Or for that matter who has the right and the appropriate scale to measure and demarcate confidence vis-à-vis over-confidence or intellect vis-à-vis pseudo intellect?
My friends have often argued with me that’s its just not worth the dime to talk or blog about such people. But that exactly is the point. Annoying or charming that these people are, they do leave a mark in your memory, and often this is the sole point that they want to make!
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