I’ve been both on different uni projects. Far better being the smart one in a group of idiots and just banging out the work without interference for a good grade. Being the idiot on the smart team was torture.
So long as the intelligent people are also kind. A group of intelligent people that are backbiting and cruel is the absolute worst.
“idiot” and “intelligent” are not mutually exclusive. One can be both at the same time. There are intelligent people doing idiotic stuff.
Idiot on a team of intelligent people. I get pissed off at people being stupid. My team might get pissed off at me but that’s their problem. And generally I like being around people smarter than me because I learn a lot from them.
It’s amazing how many choose to be an idiot.
Ignorance truly is bliss in a lot of situations
Idiot on a team of intelligent people. Hopefully, they’ll put up with me long enough to point where I learn enough to stop being an idiot.
Ignorance is bliss. Besides, it’s usually the idiots who get promoted.
To be the inteligent person in a team of idiots is certainly one of the worst things that could happen to you.
That depends, if one of the idiots is in charge, it’s torture. However, if you don’t have to answer to any of them, you can set them up with busy work to feel important and do all the actual work yourself. Then it’s only bad if you don’t like the work.
Idiot on the team of intelligent people. I’d rather just be responsible for educating myself and not everybody else.
Depends what the team is doing. If it’s a marathon running team for charity, or a team of people picking up garbage on a beach, it probably doesn’t matter much.
If the smart people are nice, I’d be ok being the idiot. Still might feel a little bad over not being able to help. Maybe I’ll be the cheerleader. “Go team! Hell yeah! Crunch those numbers!”
I’ll bring snacks?
I’ve gone being the smartest person in the room in my previous couple roles (mostly because I was the only person with any IT or platform knowledge, not because I’m some prodigy) to the bottom of the totem pole and well behind the intelligence of my current team since I changed careers.
It’s wonderful having people around that are smarter than me that I can learn from and ask questions to. It’s hard being the idiot on a team when you’re trying to improve and care about your work. Working with idiots that don’t care or seemingly never improve is the worst. I’ve learned more over the past 8 months than I have since I started my professional career.
I like the phrase, “Never be the smartest person in the room”. Sometimes it happens, but in most situations, there is someone else that is more knowledgeable about something than you, and that’s an opportunity to learn.
Do you continue being an idiot outside the context of the team?
I’d rather be surrounded by people more capable than me (at least if I care about the success of the task), but not at that cost.
U r idjut 4eva end errybody nose it
Sign me up. Being an idiot all the time for everything seems like such a good time.
Just kill me now.
It really depends on how interesting the people are and how good they are at storytelling. I’ve met super annoying smart people and really entertaining dumb people so it’s not like intelligence is the determining factor.
I’d probably rather be hanging out with either the more interesting or more autistic group because I think we’d get along the best. If that makes me the idiot of the group, I don’t think that’s too bad of a deal.
I am not a team player
