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.
Ignorance truly is bliss in a lot of situations
And I might learn some new things. Being the least intelligent person in a group doesn’t mean being stupid.
It’s amazing how many choose to be an idiot.
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.
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.
Idiot on an intelligent team, I’ll only get better
Intelligent in an idiot team, they will only make me dumber
Get a job as a software engineer and you’ll spend most days feeling like both simultaneously
I’m glad it’s not just me. XD
So long as the intelligent people are also kind. A group of intelligent people that are backbiting and cruel is the absolute worst.
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.
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Sign me up. Being an idiot all the time for everything seems like such a good time.
In my early career I made a bit of a niche for myself being the idiot on a team of very smart people. My job was to ask the simple question that none of them considered before it was too late.
I’m going to have to choose to be the intelligent person. You might think the idiot has it easy…they may even not know they are an idiot. But they could be so stupid they also think all the intelligent people are idiots, so they might get all the frustration of thinking they are the intelligent person on a team of idiots while actually being the opposite.
Do I get dumber to become the idiot or is everyone else just smarter than me?
You become that kid in class that eats crayons and glue
Obviously the intelligent person on a team of idiots then. There is value in being the least intelligent person in a room, since you have the opportunity to learn from people smarter than you. But not if you’re just forgetting things so that you can relearn them.
Ignorance is bliss. Besides, it’s usually the idiots who get promoted.
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.
