How to explain that cleverness is mistaken for cleverness?

An old lady who was hospitalized because of a car accident wanted to cheat the driver of a sum of money, so she prescribed a lot of nutritional drugs unrelated to the trauma of the car accident in the hospital and spent a lot of money that should not have been spent. She thinks the money should be paid by the driver. As a result, after mediation by the traffic team, the old lady needs to bear 70% of the responsibility, so the more money the old lady spends, the more she will bear. When she learned the news, she said with a depressed expression, "If I had known this, I wouldn't have prescribed so many nutritional drugs. Medicine in the hospital is so expensive! I can't believe that I have been smart all my life, but I have suffered in this matter! " What the old lady did fully verified the old saying that cleverness is mistaken by cleverness.

We have long been familiar with the saying that cleverness is mistaken by cleverness. This sentence comes from Su Shi's ode to washing children in the Song Dynasty: "Everyone wants to raise their children to be smart, but I have been delayed by intelligence all my life." Everyone in life wants to be smart, smart people want to be smarter, and no one wants to be a fool. Being smart is not a bad thing, but if you think you are smart and always think you are great, you will often do things that are "smarter than you". Confucius said: "Everyone says: Know. Drive away and collect the shackles, but you are at a loss. " Everyone says they are smart, but they are forced into a trap but don't know how to escape. People who are smarter than others are often self-reliant and don't know when to stop.

During the reign of Wu Zetian, Zhou Xing was self-righteous and made suggestions for Lai Junchen to punish the prisoners. He was completely unaware of Lai Junchen's trap and got into the big urn he designed. This is the well-known story of "Please enter the urn".

In the TV series "Unannounced Visit to Kangxi", there is such a clip: When Carrie learned that she was participating in the show, she felt uneasy, afraid of a catastrophe, and wanted to poison Manager Hu. Unexpectedly, Manager Hu confidently said to Jiali, "Don't think that you are the cleverest, there are more people smarter than you in the world …" First, she transported Carrie's insatiable treasure to her house and threatened her. Gary is a very clever man, otherwise, how can a high official have to do it and a good horse have to ride it? But the world is big, and there are people smarter than him.

Wang Xifeng in A Dream of Red Mansions is a typical example of "cleverness being mistaken by cleverness" in literary works. She wrote in the verdict: "The CIA was so clever that it killed Qing Qing. Heartbroken before death, ethereal after death. It is better to have a rich family, but eventually a family will die and everyone will go their separate ways. Waste time, spend the rest of your life in your heart. Night is like a dream. Suddenly like the first floor, suddenly like Yi Deng. Ah! One happy and one sad. Sighing that the world is hard to decide. " Xifeng, she is really a smart person in the office.

I once read such a short story: there was a "smart" little boy whose mother took him to the grocery store to buy things. The grocer liked the cute little boy, so he opened the candy jar and let the little boy help himself. The little boy did not move. The boss said that the little boy didn't move. So the boss grabbed a handful of candy and put it in the little boy's pocket. After getting home, the mother asked the little boy, "Why don't you catch it yourself?" The little boy replied, "Because my hands are small and my boss's hands are big, he must take more than me!" " "Yes, this little boy is really smart. Imagine how smart you will be when you grow up with such a plan at an early age!

There is a little joke widely circulated on the Internet: a miser went to a bar to drink, took out the money prepared in advance and ordered a glass of beer. Halfway through the drink, he felt anxious and wanted to go to the bathroom, but he was afraid that others would drink the wine. So he borrowed a pen and paper from the waiter. On the paper, I wrote "I spit in the cup". Then he left safely. After a while, he came back and found the wine still there. He is very happy. However, he found a few more words on the note: I threw up, too! Shouldn't such jokes make us think deeply?

Bacon said: "There are many people in life who have a clever appearance for nothing, but the essence of cleverness does not exist-cleverness and stupidity." Intelligence is an innate thing that always makes people feel the brilliance of smart people, but often this superficial brilliance can't make smart people succeed, so we often see that many people who are considered smart often accomplish nothing. Smart people always think they live in the circle of smart people, but sometimes they are slightly better than others. But wise people still forget that the evolution of the world is complicated. A wise man has a Damocles sword hanging on his head, which will fall on his head at any time and cut off his head. Smart people, if not careful, will step into the smart trap.

In short, don't always think of yourself as Zhuge Liang and others as sinus. Do things in a down-to-earth manner and be a sincere person, just like a song that says, "A fool is honest all his life." Just play smart enough, too smart is stupid.