I work at Oakley, a retail store that sells high end sunglasses and beach and snow outerwear. I am a manager at my store and have been working and gaining knowledge about Oakley products for three and a half years now. The products have a lot of technology and there are many different styles of sunglasses and lenses for a variety of activities. Over the weekend, I was helping a customer who was joining the military looking for about which sunglasses would be best overseas. I was talking to him, teaching him all about the different technology and which styles would be best and why when he responded with, "wow, how do you know all of this stuff? you're so smart". In this instance, I believe what he meant by smart was I have a lot of knowledge and information about the products and that I was doing a good job of relaying my knowledge to him.
I also asked my parents this weekend what they believed being smart or intelligent meant. My mom responded saying that being smart meant working hard and producing correct answers. She said it was not being lazy and doing everything possible to show results. My dad believes intelligence is something you're born with. Initially he said that smart people are "wired smart" and have the capacity to learn things quickly.
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