Mantra : Fake it, because you can definitely not make it.
1. Pick an argument with the teacher on anything. Intimidate them with your loud arguments. The arguments need not be logical.
2. Ask a doubt about something very unimportant, irrelevant and very vaguely related to the topic being taught. Even better if no one in class knows about it. Better still, if even the teacher doesn't know about it. Then engage the teacher in the vague conversation about your vague doubt. It shows your vast expanse of knowledge. Eg. If teacher is teaching you chemistry, you can ask a doubt about unicorns because chemistry is like alchemy, alchemy is magical, magical is unicorn!
3. Start your questions with "This may sound weird/stupid", so that the teacher tells you that it is not stupid. Not stupid means smart. Which means the teacher acknowledged your smartness. Bask in the glory.
4. Ask the teacher to go back a slide and pretend that you missed a pointer. Doesn't matter if she had told in the beginning of the class that she will share the slides with you later.
5. Appear elite. If you don't know how to do that, read this.
6. Start teaching the teacher, out of the blue, in middle of a class, about something that you don't even know about.
7. Pretend to listen deeply to the teacher. Nod. Shake you head. Close your eyes for a few moments.
8. Appear aggrieved/ angry/intense for no reason, when you talk to the teacher.
9. Ask a lot of doubts when the teacher is in middle of explaining a concept. Ask him to explain it again. Make him feel as though he doesn't quite know how to do his job. Remember, Middle of Explanation is the key. If you ask after he's done explaining, the trick might backfire.
10. Loudly say "SHHHHH...." suddenly. It would make the impression that you are more serious than everyone else about the class.
11. And most importantly, don't forget to smirk and snigger when some else is answering a question in class. Remember, you can never look smart without making others look stupid.
Disclaimer : You might not be able to trick the people who are smart in reality by using these tricks.
Inspired by this post on “10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings” by Sarah Cooper.
1. Pick an argument with the teacher on anything. Intimidate them with your loud arguments. The arguments need not be logical.
2. Ask a doubt about something very unimportant, irrelevant and very vaguely related to the topic being taught. Even better if no one in class knows about it. Better still, if even the teacher doesn't know about it. Then engage the teacher in the vague conversation about your vague doubt. It shows your vast expanse of knowledge. Eg. If teacher is teaching you chemistry, you can ask a doubt about unicorns because chemistry is like alchemy, alchemy is magical, magical is unicorn!
3. Start your questions with "This may sound weird/stupid", so that the teacher tells you that it is not stupid. Not stupid means smart. Which means the teacher acknowledged your smartness. Bask in the glory.
4. Ask the teacher to go back a slide and pretend that you missed a pointer. Doesn't matter if she had told in the beginning of the class that she will share the slides with you later.
5. Appear elite. If you don't know how to do that, read this.
6. Start teaching the teacher, out of the blue, in middle of a class, about something that you don't even know about.
7. Pretend to listen deeply to the teacher. Nod. Shake you head. Close your eyes for a few moments.
8. Appear aggrieved/ angry/intense for no reason, when you talk to the teacher.
9. Ask a lot of doubts when the teacher is in middle of explaining a concept. Ask him to explain it again. Make him feel as though he doesn't quite know how to do his job. Remember, Middle of Explanation is the key. If you ask after he's done explaining, the trick might backfire.
10. Loudly say "SHHHHH...." suddenly. It would make the impression that you are more serious than everyone else about the class.
11. And most importantly, don't forget to smirk and snigger when some else is answering a question in class. Remember, you can never look smart without making others look stupid.
Disclaimer : You might not be able to trick the people who are smart in reality by using these tricks.
Inspired by this post on “10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings” by Sarah Cooper.
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