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People Aren’t Born Smart. They Become Smart As A Result Of Doing This
Outliers have a tendency to give the masses the wrong ideas.
When we hear stories about a seven-year-old who can speak 14 different languages, or see a video of someone with a photographic memory repeating back every single person’s name in a fifty person auditorium, we sit back in awe.
“How can they do that?” we say, our jaws on the ground.
We begin to think that high levels of intelligence are more the result of nature, rather than nurture.
But that’s just not the case.
The truth is, we are all blank slates when we arrive here on earth. Sure, we inherit a few things from our predecessors, but ultimately our futures depend on our work ethic. There are plenty of brilliant people in the world who never amount to much, solely because they lacked the desire to refine their inherent talents and intelligence.
And, on the other side of the spectrum, there are plenty of people who had the odds stacked against them and went on to do brilliant things.
People aren’t born smart.
People learn how to work with what they’ve got, and become smart as a result.
