Why do people admit someone is smarter than they are, but still refuse to listen?

No one is better than me.

I will say the most technically astute people are not the best people to consult on emotional or personal matters. The people I admire for their people skills really have no technical ability. Both are smarter than me but seem unhappy.

Lemme guess, you're the smart one in this scenario?

Most of the time, such person speaks Hindi

To answer your question there are lots of different kinds of smart.

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Is there someone at work who you will, on the inside, admit to yourself that they are mentally superior to you and you will you use to help you, but you will not respect as being better than you?

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You must be young, so I’m gonna give you some real talk advice.

You aren’t better than anybody. You are just one more turd floating in a sea of shite. So get that out your head.

You might be better at something than someone else. God I hope so. But being better at something doesn’t make you better than someone, especially not at a professional level.

You obviously have no inkling the moving parts that make a company. It ain’t all eggheads. When I was in the plants I dealt with this all the time, at all levels. Engineers thinking they were so smart and knew it all. Designing multi-million dollar pieces of equipment without including the operators or maintenance in anything.

Then when they put it all together, the shite didn’t work. And the operators knew why it didn’t, because shite doesn’t always work the way it does on paper.

Plans don’t survive the first round of battle because as smart as you think you are, there are umpteen intangible variables you didn’t think of. There are layers upon layers.

So the sooner you learn to drop your arrogance, the better. It won’t get you anywhere

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thinks himself a wise man because he’s got a degree on the wall.

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Degrees are brand names. I have a Louis Vitton hand bag with a Yale diploma, as a recruiter once told me, college is not about education, it's more about the connections you make. (proof enough for me college is a joke)

I'm talking about $50 community college advanced excel certification that with simple access to your company data can write a simple algorithm that red flags 50,000+ transactions, uncovers 30 years of missed infractions ($8+ Million in fines), uncovers 3 people that are sent to "early retirement" in the first 6 months of employment....but not invited to the round table discussion on how to develop systems to catch what was caught.

Just get out of the way.

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I'm talking about $50 community college advanced excel certification that with simple access to your company data can write a simple algorithm that red flags 50,000+ transactions, uncovers 30 years of missed infractions ($8+ Million in fines), uncovers 3 people that are sent to "early retirement" in the first 6 months of employment....but not invited to the round table discussion on how to develop systems to catch what was caught.

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Ahhhh, okay now I’m starting to get you.

And what you just told me is EXACTLY why you aren’t at the round table.

You are basically the compliance department in an athletic program.
Yeah you sure did pop those players with the random drug screen. Kudos. You just cost the team a game too.

Like I said, you have no clue about the moving parts.
Not saying what you are doing is wrong at all. But it might not be right for what the higher ups want. You sending all Kinds of red flags and fines means Headaches and paperwork and screwing up some other peoples gravy deals, and you aren’t sure why they don’t want you in the big papa chair?

You might be smart, but boy you are talking dumb right now.

Bell curve, the average dominate.

I see what you are saying but I hate tech support that should know more about their product and then ask these series of questions I already went through that just wastes time.

I do tell them I'm calling you because I already tried this. Yet we go through the same shite just for them at the end to say, okay we will escalate this and get back to you.

No shite huh? I escalated it by calling you.