Smart != Greatness && Smart != Success
Is being smart preventing you from greatness?
Looking back at my life and that of those close to me I have come to see a pattern. Being smart without incredible discipline, hardwork and ambition is a very deadly combination which leads to frustration.
If you weren’t as smart you probably wouldn’t have gotten things done with such ease and this in turn forces you to be hardworking and focused. Being smart makes you get used to easy wins. Easy wins make you lazy, laziness kills your drive.
Lazy-Smart can only get you so far in life. There is no true success without hardwork and determination. You forget how to take, how to hustle, how to stay hungry.
Lazy-Smart makes you feel like you know it all, it promotes procastination, it promotes bad habits learnt from years of getting away with things because you were smart. You don’t know how to handle failure and rejection, you expect to always come out on top of others even if they worked harder because that’s what it has always been like for you.
You might be the fastest learner on a team but you give away your edge by putting less effort. You get to your comfort zone early in life and don’t see the need to move, to better yourself, to fight.
Hardworking-Smart > Hard-working-Slow > Lazy-Smart
NB :- If you are Lazy-Slow then your own case is different and I don’t have the strength to touch that.
"Ease is a greater threat to success than hardship" by Denzel Washington.
When you are Lazy-Smart you get used to ease. Claw out of your comfort zone today.
This is what we see everyday, students at the top of the class graduate and get "good" jobs and then they relax while those unable to get those jobs start something small and in 10 years they are on top.
Don’t get hung up on easy and quick wins at a young age. Push out of comfort, out of your menial definition of success, out of mental confinement. What exactly do you have to loose at this age?
In summary being the smartest doesn’t necessarily mean you are the most likely to succeed. Focus on building your soft skills, your human skills, your character.
