I like to think that I'm smarter than the average bear (but not an above average bear, they're way smart).

Some of those Care bears are pretty bright, so that may be debatable.

ʎɐs oʇ ƃuıɥʇ ʇɹɐɯs ɐ ʇou sʇɐɥʇ

genius.

so you're smarter than a care bear but not smarter than yogi bear? or is it the other way round?

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That would be BooBoo.

that is exactly my point. Some people are horribly tended towards overconfidence. This tends to wear off as you get older which separates the wheat from the chaff a little.. I've had a few embarrassing scrapes because of overconfidence. I remember a state capitals test (i live in canada but lived in the usa for a few years) and i bragged about not having to study because i already knew them. Yeah. I didn't. My teacher wrote on the test "Tested like a true American" which humiliated me to death :

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not that im very great but with whatever little i learnt then n now each day! learn the definitions n theorirs by heart theorums of Math by heart.. the rest of the text neeeds reading on the day you learn the lesson in class ,it seeps in more n gets ingranied..the rest is only application n recollection which is done by revisions prior to exams .you have to read the text!!Yes dear all the best