Just ask me ;)

Just ask me ;)

Dear Saeed Al Rashid,

It depends on you ,how well you know this man.

Regards, Shafagat

Based on the impact and contributions one make

By checking how one reasons in the other fields.  No?

If you are smart in "your" field, you have seen it from inside and from outside and you have related it with the rest of knowledge.

Well Prof Rashid,  I really care less ( X). I do not have the habit of judging others claim , neither will I claim anything ...

Maybe RG net can help somehow?

Regards

I fully agree with Aparna Murphy.

Quite often, those that consider themselves as experts, or who get excessive credit for their deeds, are in fact products of temporary success.

Only time will judge efficiently.

(I need to upvote questions that interest me, because I have exceeded the limit of questions to follow. I must upvote or downvote, to become a follower... and I don't agree with doewnvoting.)

Kind regards,  Maria

 All offer good answers but dear Velina offers smartness to link to a capacity of some one to go beyond what he/she does routinely. That is a true measure of intellectual wisdom - a capability of versatility to stretch and utilize one's knowledge and expertise to explain and address issues beyond their fields in a reasonable way.  Some one can be good at going easily in a particular maze he/she used to traverse  throughout  the major part of his/her life, knowledge obtained by life long practices and acquaintances of tricks and principles of that field, but can that goodness be transferable and seen in other issues as well. 

For the fruits of your research: in publications and effective put to point.

This depends on the way of thinking, and how to respond to the nature of the ideas put forward.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom, music is nothing in front of deaf.

you need not say I am smart.....If you are smart enough...then other persons will definitely say you are smart.

of course it depends on their smartness...A fool and wise man will interpret your smartness according to their smartness levels 

Smart is not the way to look at it.  The most unintelligent person can solve a problem that others can not.  Sometimes being smart in your field is a disadvantage.  You become blinded by thinking you know and that you are smarter than others.

There is no way or for that matter good reason to know if you are smarter than someone else in the same field.  If you want to solve problems how smart you are does not insure success.  Even Albert Einstein said that "I am not particularly intelligent I am however passionately curious"  I am paraphrasing here so do not slam me for the quote.

He was also afraid of being made an expert as he thought that was how many of the problems of the day were continued instead of getting resolved.

George Van Hoesen     

How can I determine if you are smart enough in your field?

Interpretation whether a person is smart or not is subjective & relative.  A really smart person will not claim s/he is smart (his / her smartness usually address by others) - in fact s/he will stay humble & continuously improve herself / himself as the sky's the limit.  The recipe for research success is not only work smart but also work hard with passion & perseverance.

Added depends on the amount that can be made in the field of my studies and what is new that could be introduced.

Thank you for all , Bob it is up to you now because I change main question

best wishes 

I've been asking myself this question ever since beginning my first year of university. We were all told, during Freshman orientation week in my engineering major, look to your left, look to your right, half of you will have dropped out by next year.

It was true. Not only that, it continued to happen the next year too. You only know if you survive the ordeal.

But I also discovered that it's not so much "smart enough." It's instead more "stubborn enough." You have to apply yourself, and for that, you have to have a strong INTEREST. Many people, who were more than "smart enough," ended up dropping out. I remember one student in particular who dropped out and went into pure math. So for sure, he was "smart enough."

Researchers don't say this about them selves, but do hope someone else will say it of them especially in a job interview. In my career the references said really nice things, but never to my face.

Hopefully a researcher will understand what others have done, and add something useful to it. Just as important are the relationships developed with colleagues and the ability to listen well and speak well, or otherwise communicate.

Genius seldom occurs, and even then is usually lost from lack of recognition. Mentors fill an important place in research, but also as a two way exchange. They help to provide recognition of good work, while practicing enough to avoid obsolescence.

Failure of a career may occur from inability to form collaborations, intolerance of other opinions, or lack of guidance and resources.

Smart enough condittion doesn't happen in a life time. We continue learning or become obsolete quickly.

Dear Markovic, 

It is not only what others say about someone's works but when others recognize it as well that a work will have more value in the field and in the community more than what the person says about self. But at the same time, if a person is excluded from the domain he/she is working for some reason(s) (humans are political animals,  they sometimes make decisions on irrational basis) others will never say any thing and will never recognize the works of the person and his/her works will be sidelined and put efforts to make it unnoticed.It is a matter of time and act of a Samaritan that works of such persons will be discovered and be appreciated later. I read  somewhere,  the communication made between Albert Einstein and a physics journal editor in Germany. Albert Einstein first had difficult times to be received  by the physics community, even worked as a clerk because he could not get a job as a professor of physics,  sent his paper to the physics journal editor. The editor read his paper and sent a rejection letter to Einstein, by saying, " dear Dr. Einstein, your  paper  seems more of fiction than physics. I regret to inform you that your paper will not be published in the physics journal". A person presumed to be an outsider remains to be seen as an outsider in that field and  treated as a persona non grata  for that community and your capability, knowledge, wisdom of the field the person posses is berried alive - a scholarly tragedy of politics. 

I agree with some authors above that “smart enough” or “… saying Im smart in my field” is not an adequate measure of personal professional achievements. I worked in academic and corporate engineering environments. While in the former, I used two indicators of personal achievements.

First, if my management and/or co-authors wanted me to continue to extend the research after the first publication. Second, if the colleagues in my field from different places were coming at the conferences to discuss the results. This indicator was depending on whether the published work was opening or closing something interesting and important. If closing – there was not much discussions and interest on the colleagues’ part. If opening – the discussions were quite agile.

While working in a corporate engineering environment, the essence of a personal achievement -  if you are not a stumbling block in a collective effort to the project(s) success in the first place. Personal skills are still very important, but no less critical are communication, sharing, and cooperation.

I do not judge myself, therefore, others can better determine if I am smart enough in my field.

sweet question Professor

Thank you for all coleagues

If am smart in my field I would know from the acknowledgements I get from the people I render my services to, otherwise I would know I only have to work harder. It's not possible to assess yourself without other peoples' opinions.

Just you can determine my smartness 

Dear Karlos and Bernda

Thank you very much for all your comments 

Regards 

Life long learning is the best way to be competent and is required when a professional license is being maintained. Smart enough probably doesn't happen, but the abilities are not always appropriate to the situation.

Dear Jerry , you are right , thank you very much 

I cannot discover that I am smart in my field - only other researches can value my efforts. However, I can estimate that I am on the right way in case some other researches have exactly the same view on issues I am dealing with.

Dear Joseph , you are right , thank you very much