You can quote these facts with confidence, they have my personal guarantee. * Everything in this book has been scrupulously checked and double-checked, and not on Wikipedia, either. ![]() They’re not the kind of thing you’ll see on the internet or in bulk emails forwarded around the office. A good knowledge of interesting trivia is the number one way to make people think you’re clever! And I’d just like to make it clear that all the trivia items you’ll find in the footnotes of this book are TRUE. The footnotes constitute interesting pieces of knowledge that you will hopefully remember and be able to drop into *Ĭonversation at appropriate times. * Sometimes these footnotes will be something to do with the main subject matter of the page. On every page of this book, you’ll find an asterisk pointing you to a footnote at the bottom of the page. What’s with all the footnotes? Well noticed. Believe me, it’s a great thing to have a reputation as a clever person. They’ll even assume you’re good at your job, however totally incompetent you might be. They’ll assume you know what you’re talking about on any subject, even if you’ve never shown any knowledge about it before. What’s the benefit of being thought of as clever if I’m not? There are many, many benefits! The main one is that if people think you’re clever, they’ll think you’re right when you express an opinion. Put it all together, and people will THINK you’re clever. But the aim of this book is to teach you a few lessons in the knowledge that can amaze everyone you speak to, the memory to help you recall it, and the creativity to use it in the right place. Cleverness, as I see it, is a mixture of four things – intelligence, knowledge, memory and creativity. But there are a lot of people out there with only an average amount of intelligence, but who are regarded by everyone who knows them as ‘a really clever person’. Some people have a lot of it, and some people very little. ![]() What’s the difference? Intelligence is something you’re born with. But it’s important to note that when I say ‘clever’, I don’t mean the same as ‘intelligent’. ![]() This book will teach you how to be clever. How To Be Clever So, what’s this book all about? It does what it says on the tin.
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