Q&A: Street Smarts
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Street Smarts
Question
Do you think that success in certain situations in life often requires combining book knowledge with street smarts? There’s also life wisdom, but that’s already something else.
Answer
These are just words. Do you mean experience in addition to theoretical knowledge? Obviously yes.
Life experience, yes, but the kind that works in the field. That’s what I call street smarts—the practical things of reality on the ground, the hands-on experience of people from the field. Because everyone has personal life experience, but not everyone is as experienced as someone who mixes with people on the street. And it seems to me that most people are out and about.