Why your imagining that your smarter than the successful People
You suddenly become the ceo of a multi-million dollar company overnight will you be able to grow it even bigger in the next five years or will you run it into the ground successful individuals have a big brain energy around them
But that doesn't paint the full picturee
Ralistically speaking if you became the ceo of apple tomorrow the next iphone would probably look like this
So maybe hold that thought for a little longer but believing successful people are way smarter than you puts you in a really awkward spot i mean how could you ever be at the same level as someone who built a multi-million dollar asset
What would you have to learn what would you need to know how to do these are impossible questions to answer and people get stuck on them and call it a day maybe success isn't for you after all but the thing is there's no correlation between being smart and being successful there are millions of smart people out there
And most of them are employees with average lives at the same time there's a lot of highly successful people who are really dumb overall as a matter of fact i could probably sit here for the next six years and talk about things
I suck at so how do these people become so successful if they're not particularly bright being smart once people love sabotaging themselves with unhealthy narratives about what being smart means oh i was never smart enough to do that or i was never smart enough to invest in that are common phrases you'll hear every time
That's because they look in retrospect and beat themselves up over missed opportunities
They were supposed to be aware of this is also what leads them to making really dumb decisions to make up for the lost opportunities that's why they start investing with insane leverage and ruin their lives
Something to keep in mind is past performance is not an indicator of future results judging how smart you are by what you did or didn't do in the past has little value
There are people who invested in twitter when twitter was a baby and made a ton of money there are also people who passed on twitter but invested in something else at a different time and still made money
You see what you get wrong about successful people is you think they're smart in every area all the time they always make the right calls they always know what to do what to say and who to talk to but the reality is you can be dumb as much as you like as long as it doesn't kill you
But you only have to be smart one time you only have to get it right once it's not that successful people are right all the time it's that their good calls outweigh the bad ones they get really smart at one thing that takes care of everything else they're dumb at so we've established that successful people are not smart overall
They're just really good at one particular thing the next thing you get wrong is how getting smart happens technically speaking being smart means your ability to acquire and apply knowledge
How many times have you seen walking wikipedias who haven't actually done anything but call themselves really smart the second part the applying the knowledge part is the crucial one think about it like this there are two ways to learn how to ride a bike
One you watch how to ride a bike and try it yourself or two you just hop on a bike put on a helmet and hope for the best as long as your first ride isn't on a flight of stairs you should be fine what makes you smart is doing it a second time successfully
Your first smart call can set you up for life and you can call it a day or a lifetime in this case but doing it a second time successfully is what gets you the right to call yourself smart and that second time can be another company another investment another product another good call
But there's one more thing that people don't seem to understand how the confirmation of being smart happens
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