I am so smrt...

In our business, we interact with smart people daily. Since I work with analysts, a large part of the lens that they see the world through is "smart": how smart is that question, how well written is the response, how academically credible is the person? The sum of the aforementioned parts in addition to the way an argument is played out is supposed to lead to some sort of conclusive answer. Smart people came up with this idea, smart people flushed it out, smart people agree that it's logical - therefore, it must be correct.

I need to remind myself of the following: there is always a large difference in being smart and being right. I'd like to be more of the latter and less of the former.