6 reasons why friends and colleagues think you're a fool

1. You love to teach

People who consider themselves super experts and hand out “valuable” advice right and left, even if they are not asked for it, are usually deprived of the mind. If a person is sure that he has learned absolutely everything and can bring the truth into the world by himself, it’s bad.

He ceases to notice his own mistakes, but actively criticizes others. As a result, he stops developing, as he is sure that he has achieved everything. And those who disagree with him are just "narrow-minded and ignorant people." And someday they will definitely regret it.

The fool never reaches a dead end, because there are a lot of smart ones. More precisely, "too smart".

The smart one loves to learn, and the fool loves to teach.

Anton Chekhov

2. You are constantly trying to prove that you are not a fool

Everything seems to be fine. But from time to time, an unpleasant feeling gnaws at you from the inside. It seems that your friends and colleagues are saying one thing to your face, but behind your back they are saying something completely different. And you have no choice but to strike a preemptive strike: to actively prove to everyone that you are not a fool.

People who are unsure of their knowledge and skills are in great need of outside support, recognition and confirmation of their own merits. It is not for nothing that they say that an intelligent person is happy only when he is awarded his own praise, while a fool is content with the applause of those around him.

A fool who confesses that he is a fool is no longer a fool.

Fedor Dostoevsky

3. You can't see perspective

If they say about you, "Can't see beyond your nose," perhaps those around you doubt your mental abilities. Limited people do not know how to think big, do not undertake to analyze what is happening and make predictions, including those concerning their lives.

This limitation often manifests itself in a lack of interest in trends and an unwillingness or even fear of looking beyond the horizon. You live in a cozy burrow that you don't want to get out of. But this, alas, limits your development and opportunities.

A clever person sees before him an immeasurable realm of the possible, while a fool considers only what is possible.

Denis Diderot

4. You are annoyed by the mind of others

A good phrase: the fool is the first to notice how much is divorced around the smart. If you are surrounded by extremely annoying people who are “playing don’t understand what,” this is a bad sign.

Smart people, as a rule, rejoice in other people's achievements and are rather loyal to shortcomings. And fools notice and emphasize them, love comparisons and very often condemn them.

If vanity made someone happy, then surely that someone was a fool.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5. You speak first and think later

This bad habit usually leads to big problems. Fools love to hack off the shoulder and do not think about the consequences that can lead to thoughtlessly expressed thoughts. But a thoughtlessly thrown phrase can hurt no worse than a knife.

As a rule, this is the difference between people who do not know how to think, compare facts and draw conclusions. And others suffer from this. No wonder they have an unflattering opinion of you.

Rudeness is the wit of fools.

André Maurois

6. You are categorical and stubborn

A well-known saying: the clever changes his mind, the fool never. Stubbornness, obstinacy, unwillingness to admit that you are wrong and to accept the facts testifying to this are bad signs.

Often, such people like to make categorical conclusions about significant events, foaming at the mouth, they prove their case in social networks, stigmatize those who have a different opinion. Arguing with such people is useless.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him do his own thing.

Henry Wheeler Shaw