Smart players

I was reading something interesting today and it was talking about how players who have sport smarts aren't necessarily the brightest off the field.

What I am saying is that you can play a sport smartly. You can understand the game really well. You can anticipate well and also have no brains whatsoever in anything else. You can also be brilliant but be completely perplexed by the game. Just because your book smart doesn't mean you can apply book smarts to sports.

Often people with book smarts are good at both school and sports but it's not always necessarily the case.

I'd like to think I'm smart, but that doesn't mean I could do anything about a calculus problem if you put it in front of me.

You also find people in life that are brilliant at one thing, like selling bonds based on advanced mathmatical formulas, yet at the same time be unable to open a door and pour water into a cup.

No one is brilliant at everything. Those that we perceive to be brilliant at everything probably have stronger communication skills than actual smarts. We think they are brilliant because they can explain things well.