“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” Gertrude SteinĮspecially in business, our world is filled with data. Have you ever been taken aback by a straight-talking, no-nonsense person who exudes the type of practical intelligence that is common sense? We’re so accustomed to people posturing and positioning that a person who sheds all of the pretense and is comfortable enough to be plain-spoken and ordinary is the one who stands out. “Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Our version of the cowboy was the Midwestern farmer. It wasn’t unusual to find common sense dressed in overalls and work boots. There’s something about common sense that is so plain, so simple that we tend to overlook its genius if we aren’t paying close attention. “Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Wouldn’t you rather have the common sense? “It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” Robert Green IngersollĬommon sense is defined as “sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like.” In a world filled with smart people with unending amounts of specialized training, how many of them really have any common sense? Consider one person you know who is well-educated but lacks common sense.
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