Are you really as smart as you think you are? What makes you think so? Got proof?

Are you really as smart as you think you are? What makes you think so? Got proof?
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I think that I am smart. My proof – people saying that I am smart (what society considers the correct answer is taken as if it is the correct answer. people say that I am smart, thereby I am smart.) I am probably not as smart as people think I am, though.
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