please tell me why i should not worry about how smart i am

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.” –Socrates The sillier the mistake, the harder it is for an intelligent person to accept that they’ve made it. People of all levels of intelligence succumb to what’s called the “bias blind spot.” That is, we’re great at spotting other people’s mistakes and terrible at recognizing our own. Perhaps the scariest thing about the errors that highly intelligent people make is how unaware they are of them. Even students from some of the most prestigious universities in the world make stupid mistakes. When Frederick gave the question to students from Harvard, Princeton, and M.I.T., more than half of them got it wrong.

The dummies getting the bat-and-ball question wrong weren’t so dumb, either. That is, they’re so used to being right and having quick answers that they don’t even realize when they’re blowing it by answering without thinking things through. These blind spots exist because smart people tend to be overconfident in their reasoning abilities. Smart people are more prone to silly mistakes because of blind spots in how they use logic.

The researchers found that smart people were more likely to blurt out the wrong answer because they actually make more mental mistakes when problem-solving. They gave similar tests of logic to hundreds of people and compared the accuracy of their answers to their levels of intelligence. Psychologists from James Madison University and the University of Toronto wondered the same thing.

Please tell me why i should not worry about how smart i am