"Hey Boo-Boo"

A while ago a person said to me: “You’re just not used to having people around who are not as smart as you are.”

Now let’s think about this for a minute……there are 4 ways I can see this being taken as:
1)A very sly insult to me. (I think I am smarter than I actually am.)
2)A direct insult to the people I am around. (Whoever that is and the people I am around are smart….for the most part :) )
3)A complement.
4)A very misinformed person.

Let’s assume for a moment that numbers 1, 2, and 4 are not true. And this person actually thinks I am really smart. I don’t see it. I do not think I am a very smart person at all. Yes, I graduated high school and I have a B.S. from MTSU, but my GPA was not that great. It was just above average.
The question I have is what defines someone being “smart”? Is it a piece of paper that says your GPA is this and according to this scale you are above the norm? Is it the ability to solve problems? Is it the ability to regurgitate information? Is it common sense?

My opinion of “smart” is the ability to complete a task that requires a person to think. I understand that everyone’s brain is different. To me I have a logical, straight line mind. By this I mean, if something doesn’t work, I will start from the beginning and go through to the end until I find the problem. But this is how I see myself. I do not know how others see me, which is a totally different topic. (Who you really are, how you see yourself, and how other sees you)

Anyway, I guess everyone is “smart” in a different way. Albert Einstein was a brilliant man, but could he have torn down and rebuilt an engine? Probably not, so an auto mechanic is smarter than Alert Einstein. Right?