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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/12248
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You might benefit from some ideas:

    1. Avoid the info dump (a long description scene)
    2. Add your description in showing/active sentences
    3. Use character contrasting (contrast one character to another)

I explain more here: [How to describe your point of view character in a first person novel?](http://jabrambarneck.com/2014/04/23/how-to-describe-your-point-of-view-character-in-a-first-person-novel)

If you want your character to be:

> unusually smart clever, insightful and thoughtful guy who is somewhat reserved and mysterious

then Let your character develop as you write. You can do some pre-work. For each description in your list, ask this question

What is your character doing or going to do that is (smart)?

Keep these tag lines around and as you write, just make the character act these ways. I don't know what your character will do. So here is an example from my book:

My character is also smart. I don't actually ever say he is smart. I do say he is a Jeek, half jock half geek. He plays chess. He is watches the some college videos on chemistry just before his high school senior senior year to help prepare himself for AP chemistry. He talks about getting a scholarship either with sports or grades.

Original score: 5