Since kendra and tana started out on opposing teams, it would become the final battle of book smarts vs street smarts. Why street smarts always win out over book smarts when it. This type of intelligence is used to recall or recognize, analyze, evaluate, and. The street smarts no college under their belt team had a net worth that doubled the book smarts. Youve been tested and have a bank of courage to depend on when you are tested again. Posted on september 8, 2015 by pplscrt79 i once heard someone utter the phrase, when someone says that they arent street smart, but book smart, what i really hear is, im not real smart, but im imaginary smart. Go get an apartment, or reach for a more challenging job. And if youre street smart and not book smart, then read a goddamn. The latest season of the apprentice just wrapped up and delivered a variation in the battle of the sexes theme. I was surprised book smarts was as disorganized as they were, but a lot of that has to do with the pm. Book smart is simply describing that the person as generally intelligent, well educated and do well academically.
I believe that street smarts is more important than book smarts when it comes to. In this season, two groups of nine were divided into book smarts who took the name magna corp and street smarts called net worth referring to those with and without a completed college education. While many, if not most, people hold book smarts in the highest regard, the truth is. What do you call people who are book smart, but not street. Its clear that some people have better judgment than others. We all know people who are book smart but clueless in the real world, and those who are street smart but unable to handle any environment other than the one theyre used to. One is book smarts whereas the other is street smarts. Book smart while book smarts arent as respected these days as street smarts, being book smart is a very good thing.
The truth is, being book smart and street smart has a lot more to do than just your upbringing and personality. As a specialist in projectbased learning, i couldnt pass up the opportunity to use this network program to highlight the pros and cons of traditional education and projectbasedhandson learning. Know plenty of people with a ton of book smarts who didnt go to far in life. For me, i can tell you that my street smarts is stronger than my book smarts. How smartness is defined within schools contributes to low academic achievement by poor and racialethnic minority students. The new season of reality televisions popular the apprentice series has ivylined towers and street hustling corners locked in the mother of all staredowns. Most people who are street smart arent very book smart and vice versa. Being able to succeed scholastically, and not necessarily in the real world.
Know a good few people who are just street smart who do quite well for themselves. Whether one is more versed in street smarts or book smarts depends on the circumstances one has grown up under. The fishermans apprentice with monty halls, episode 1 bbc two. A shrewd ability to survive in a dangerous urban environment. Theres a lot of buzz about the new season of the apprentice where book smarts takes on street smarts.
That puts you in contact with unsavory characters, the kind that typify the hustler that embodies the negative version of that word. Generally, people who are not book smart ie didnt go to school, arent particularly good at any subject, etc etc try and make themselves feel better by claming that people who actually are smart arent street smart like them. Street smarts means youve put yourself at risk and survived. Adventures on the road and in the markets kindle edition by rogers, jim. The apprentice 3 is the third season of the apprentice. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading street smarts. The tasks will test their intelligence, chutzpah and streetsmarts.
Looking to shake the shows format up a bit after the apprentice s first two seasons initially featured teams divided by sex, nbc announced thursday that the apprentice 3 will feature two teams divided into welleducated professionals and hardworking entrepreneurs who have succeeded despite possessing. But does have some interested examples from the ceo ranks. Growing up, i was very street smart but not so book smart. Street journal, sidewalk labs will seek citieslikely economically struggling. Marine biologist monty halls travels to cadgwith on the south coast of cornwall to live and work as a fisherman, to find out whats involved in getting seafood. Last season the apprentice was based on this dichotomy, pitting a team of people with higher education against a team whose members had. Among the 15 seasons of the apprentice, this one alone cracked the top 20 in. So, being smart whether book smart or street smart is a great thing to be. The apprentice us season 01 episode 01 video dailymotion. In reality we should have a mixture of both street smarts and book smarts to be functioning healthy human beings. He is also the star of the asian edition of the apprentice, the awardwinning.
The other downside is the focus on the tv show the apprentice, a show, like many other. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Graff believes that having the personality of a street smart person can benefit society if one knows how to channel their potential correctly. You get street smarts when people try to take advantage of you, when they try to bully you, or when they try to bamboozle you. I started in the hotel business as a bellman at an opening hotel, having had to drop out of school when i was 16, in order to support myself. But not according to the new apprentice that the donald is playing. Youre not going to find a tome that helps you to be smarter on the street. I had had other jobs, and was in fact at that time an apprentice electrician with a very small company, when, as often happened, i was laid off due to a. Create a mobile, serviceoriented business by redesigning a 28. But it was a long ride before tana and kendra were the final two applicants being considered for the dream job of a lifetime.
Accompanying the bbc 2 series of the same name, monty spends a year working as a fisherman from cadgwith cove in cornwall, the last. Monty halls the fishermans ap prentice is the story of our fishermens fight for survival, told from firsthand experience. Were coping with a president and his voters who are racked with. It has a lot to do with your preferred learning style, and which way you perceive the world. Some people are analytically intelligent or book smart. As a specialist in projectbased learning, i couldnt pass up the opportunity to use this network program to highlight the pros and cons of traditional education. For example, 25% of people on social media have posted something they later regretted, the divorce rate in the us is 50%, and over the past decade the tattoo removal industry has grown 440% although tramp stamps and tasteless tweets are mostly benign mistakes, there are a remarkable number of people whose poor decisionmaking. I also recognize that this kind of street smarts is a specialized, complex, important skill set which i, with all my book smarts, could never hope to master. All of the women on the apprentice flirted with me consciously or unconsciously. Youll never hit the street smart plateau while under the comfort of mommy and daddy. You usually have something helpful to add to any situation. Unbelievable egotheres a lot of buzz about the new season of the apprentice where book smarts takes on street smarts. Selling smartness visions and politics of the smart city by jathan. You love to read, and youre constantly looking things up.
The street smarts no college under their belt team had a net worth that doubled the book smarts those with college degrees. Nbcs the apprentice 3 to premiere january 20, pit street smarts vs. The street smarts continue to prove that street savvy can win, with a 2to1 winning margin over the book smarts. What is the difference between book smart and street smart. This replaced the battle of the sexes concept used on the apprentice 1 and the apprentice 2 trump continued the twist introduced in the previous season that allowed the winning. Street smart we all know people who are book smart but clueless in the real world, and those who are street smart but unable to handle any environment other than the one theyre used to. Someone who is intelligent, learns well, and educated very well academically. Based on how u gonna earn and plan your life while book smart. On the flip side, being book smart comes from being wellversed with books. You may not have done the best on quizzes or term papers, but you are very observant and perceptive person.
However, when i hear the phrase im not book smart, im street smart, it generally is not referring to this sort of intelligence. Such as street is surviving thru experience while book are thru adding knowledge so that we wont follow or do the same mistake as people did. What you will find is many books instructing you how to improve specific skillsets that, combined, could be called street smarts. You have a lot of information stored in that brain of yours. Being absolutely one or the other with none of the opposite is. Have fun with the quiz dedicated to the book smarts vs. Educational dividends president carol timms series using nbcs the apprentice to highlight the pros and cons of traditional. When people discuss street smarts and book smarts, its usually implied that you can only have one or the other. Besides since i have book smarts i can just memorize what street smart characters do in books and imitate them in the proper situation. Street smarts vs book smarts, the epic debate continued. To be street smart, you have to spend time on the streets.
Why street smarts beats book smarts chatri sityodtong. Donald trump finally hired a woman in season three. Here comes magna and networth, the latest squads to do donald trumps bidding on. Street smarts is a worthwhile business book, and i do recommend this book to anyone interested in entrepreneurial material, however the author played a bit of a deception in the reader. In the beginning he emphasizes that his knowledge of business comes from street smarts, beginning with the lessons he learned on the street from his father. You can have all the book smarts in the world, but the real world will eat you up and spit you out if you aint able to play the game. Last season the apprentice was based on this dichotomy, pitting a team of people with higher education against a team whose members had less formal education. What are some of the best books to develop street smarts. Permalink motely fool has an article on this focuses on going to college as the criteria for being book smart which is perhaps narrower than mine. If youre book smart and not street smart, then get out in the freaking world. Being street smart can lead to book smarts as the street smart sense what works and what doesnt, and adapt accordingly. He is the old fishermans wife who wished for everything and sooner or later he will. In the end, though the street smart folks made an impressive showing, it was a book smart contestant who walked away with the prize.