Which is better - common sense or book smarts?

I think common sense smarts could save your life if you get stuck somewhere and have to survive. I think there are a lot of different kinds of smart (sorry Paris I'm not sure you fit any of them). Some people focus on different kinds of intelligences. like:

poets and writers - language
scientists and programmers - logical
artists, decorators - spatial, artistic
musicians, djs - musical
dancers, athletes - kinesthetic
sales people, psychologists - interpersonal

I'm sure there are lots, but it seems like we all focus on one kind or two kinds but there are lots of kinds of intelligence and they are all valuable if you get a job where you can use your intellegence.

I'm book smart so I would say common sense, because lacking it makes me feel dumb. Knowing at what temp blood boils, that the foothills (in CO) used to be the edge of the ocean, and that a comet follows it's tail - hasn't helped me much in my life. I would really like some common sense so that I don't have to sing the "lefty loosy - righty tighty" song in my head every time I need to use a screwdriver - Ah- I recently learned the hard way that song doesn't work if your attaching a propane tank. Yeah, common sense would be nice so I don't blow myself up.

Common sense

because you can always learn how to look things up, or hire people with the smarts, but if you have the common sense or the vision, you will always go far

Amen sista!

My dad taught me that there's 3 kind of smarts:
Book smarts
Street smarts (common sense)
People smarts

The most successful people are the ones with people smarts. The really successful people have all 3.