Ten Behaviors of a Highly Intelligent Human on Their Way to Greatness

“Become smart enough to realize how stupid you are.”

Tim Denning
Mind Cafe
Published in
6 min readJan 18, 2022

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Intelligence is a result of behavior, not IQ.

Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger are widely considered extremely intelligent humans. I love what Charlie said on intelligence.

“Other people are trying to be smart. All I’m trying to be is non-idiotic. I find that all you have to do to get ahead in life is to be non-idiotic … It’s harder to be non-idiotic than most people think.

Here are the behaviors to model to become more intelligent.

Remember: humans are fundamentally good

I once met an extremely smart person with a Ph.D.

He ended up in jail trying to break basic laws like thou shalt not steal property that isn’t mine. He believed all humans were stupid except for him. He said humans are purely motivated by self-interest.

“Individualism will destroy the world.”

The fancy university should take back his Ph.D. What a joke.

You can be smart and understand how the world works. But you only become a highly intelligent human when you live the life you want. Living the life you want puts all…

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Tim Denning
Mind Cafe

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