I was voted most likely to succeed. Gonna be a doctor. Due to severe depression, and then severe chronic illness, I’m disabled. From a young age what I valued was the ability to have choices offered to me and working really hard toward my lofty, seemingly unattainable goals. Now that is all gone and my life is completely determined by the will of others since I cannot do for myself. It’s a lowly and soul destroying adjustment.
Why so many “smart” people can’t achieve their dreams? It’s because they evaluate and overthink too much on their logical perspective instead of taking any action to chase after their dream. Some don’t even achieve anything because of fear. Another reason many don’t chase after their dream because of comfort and laziness.
There is something I was taught long ago that helps anyone. It’s seems simple but you can be more confident in many situations. As soon as you get a new job, have a new personal relationship, go backpacking, or buy a home ........ Make yourself an EXIT STRATEGY .... make a plan to “get out” of a situation. You won’t fear losing your job, terminating a bad relationship and so on ...... .
@ Do you Mr.Ben, I'm making a very fair comparison and valid point. I see yours. However I don't understand how having a backup plan or preparing for the worst leads to a mediocre life. For me personally having a backup plan has saved a lot of money and stress over the years. But as long as your happy who am I to judge? Have a nice evening!
#2 is definitely the biggest reason, along with reason #10 not creating the social network needed, because they feel or come across as being aloof/unrelated to the less intelligent
An old roommate of mine in college... I studied twice as hard as him, and he usually got slightly better grades than me. But he came from an affluent family which kind of spoiled him, so he was kind of entitled, and wasn't used to having to work hard for anything. As a result, he never set goals for himself that were so high that he would have to really work hard to achieve it. He pretty much cruised though, got an okay job, and has an okay life, but is living far below his potential. He's not exactly a failure, but he lives pretty modestly, and he could do much better for himself financially, intellectually, and experienciallly if he had been willing to apply himself assiduously.
I screwed up when I became successful. I got complacent. The worst was I didn't plan or set goals. Finally and most importantly I didn't seek professional advice about my money. I hope this helps YOU!!!
I call shenanigans to the story about John and his decision to stay at the 150k job or go be a soccer club manager. The dude probably worked way hard ,for way longer, to get that engineering job than mark at his dead end 40k position. If the morale is aim to have nothing to lose, aight fine, but calling John risk averse for having stayed in a position which he probably made sacrifices to get seems misleading.
Many IITians get trapped in plum jobs and the risk proof career causes stumbling block to most dreams. The non IITians are better positioned since they don't get actually 'trapped' so they are more flexible to take different routes. However, the real success happens only by 2 things: Constant effort and single minded focus. Thank you for excellent analysis on smart people.
People often don't achieve their dreams because they aren't real; they're just dreams. Common sense should tell you not to take risks you don't need to, just because someone else thinks you should. Let them take the risks if they want, while you do what you can to keep yourself safe and secure. Life is uncertain, risky and dangerous enough without pushing your luck. In an interview Roger Moore was once asked about what happened to another actor that he knew well and had worked with; ''He tragically died too young'', replied Roger. "What from'', he was asked, ''Too much ambition", Roger replied.
People don't like to hear it but for people of similar ability and character the final variable is luck, plain and simple. The math is pretty clear. When you think of the Theory of Evolution chances are you immediately think Darwin - even though Wallace developed a theory of natural selection first. The same goes for Newton vs. Leibniz, Edison vs. Tesla, etc. And, of course, the thousands of Developers out there who are just as smart and talented as Zuck - they didn't meet the Winklevoss twins first. :)
I've always dreamed of a big hit record, or a career as a successful songwriter, or to have my own record company. Anybody will tell you, all of those things require a fantastic amount of good luck. I'm supposed to be highly intelligent, but that doesn't make any real difference
I Don’t Have To Work Or Volunteer For The Community If I Don’t Want To That’s Totally My Choice It’s My God Given Right To Make My Own Choices It Doesn’t Matter If I’m God It’s a Free Country
I gave this a thumbs down, intelligent people are often overconfident that they can handle any challenge that come their way, they will take unnecessary risks, and make mistakes, and learn from it. They also lose interest very quickly and move on to something more interesting just before they reach the phase where they are considered experienced, and will become really successfull. They will also often ignore the tried and tested way of doing something and develop their own way of doing it, just because they can. Another reason is that they have a different view of what "success" entails, they will often consider finishing a challenging project to be a success and have no motivation for the boring process oc repeating the "success" over and over, thereby losing the opportunity to be "successful" in the eyes of others. Intelligent people seldom focus on one single aspect, will have a wide range of interests, and will seldom become a "successful" specialist in just one field. They will often consider achieving a whole range of successes in various challenging fields to be their dream, rather than to place all their time, energy and resourcefulness in one long dreary process to achieve success in their dream field. In short: they will have many dreams in their lifetimes and may successes, but many failures as well. Success in achieving a dream will mean finalizing the one they currently have before moving on to the next one. This guy has no idea what he is talking about, an extremely low quality youtube production.
8. they are not willing to get their hands dirty - often the opposite is the case - others perceive you as one who is only good for the trivia/peanuts and so trivia will be what you are doing until the end of your employment at this workplace... _(you are not willing to get your hands dirty) one accused me when I said I don't want to treat others in such a condescendant way as I often witness - cause it is part of work. ... hard to make up rules when every rule or truth got to work in a certain context and reality
An average mindset equals success, because it recognises the amount of work that is unglofied, but has to be done. Even the acculumation of an average wage over a long period of time can result in success. Judicious investment of said funds, can increase wealth exponentially. Not brilliant minds. Brilliant strategy.
Let me ask a question. If you achieve your dream but it doesn't last does it still count? For example let's say that your dream was always to live in a loft in Paris and then one day out of the blue luck shined upon you and you found this beautiful little flat with a breathtaking view of the Eiffel Tower. You just achieved your dream! Now lets say some unfortunate circumstances happened and you had to move out for financial reasons. You never found a place afterwards that was as nice as that. It's gone and you'll never get it back but at least you had it temporarily. It was your dream and you made it come true but it didn't last. Would that be considered achieving your dream or would you call it a failure?
attitude is the issue. Law of Attraction says "we become what we think about"... so why would you ruin your future by embedding in your subconscious mind the idea that "it's gone and you'll never get it back"? your attitude is not the result of your life- your life is the result of your attitude. fix your attitude and fix your life. start with a few hundred hours of Jim Rohn, Bob Proctor, and Brian Tracy. read Think and Grow Rich- often... then help others do the same.
"Owed success?" Maybe they're out there, but I don't know ANY smart people that feel that way. Also disagree with "not persistent enough." "Don't believe in themselves," "believe in themselves too much?" How can these be "characteristics of smart people" if they are literally the opposite? Anybody could fall victim to those issues. "Not willing to get their hands dirty?" That one is definitely wrong. Virtually every intelligent I know is VERY hands-on. Some get their hands dirty so much they're perpetually filthy. The rest of the points seem valid, although I don't know they're necessarily characteristics of smart people.
Your # 2 example is very poor, and John made the right decision. It's great to be a hero, and chase your pie in the sky dreams, but just remember, if they don't work out, your family suffers greatly, and you may lose your marriage, and kids. You can always start a business on the side after regular work. Look what happened to the other guy -- he could not cut it, and went back to his old job, but John's job at $ 150,000 is a lot harder to get, and likely would have been unemployed, and maybe lost everything. If John was 24 yrs old, then maybe OK, but John made the right decision. It's all about risk and reward sometimes, but you have to use common sense, and keep the lights on.
Because have not friend. My experience do my bisnis growth but I lost control because everything lost and try start again when growth I lost control lost again, start again when growth, I lost control lost again....
Same, bro. But we got to keep on moving forward. Just work hard and put in the work. The issue with grades was never that I wasn't mentally capable enough to do it but it was because I procrastinated and was terrible with time management. Also, try to search up about Credit by Exams, like CLEP, DSST, and ECE.
@ Gaulois très réfractaire ! Maybe there are different kinds of intelligence. We often think only of academic intelligence (and even this may have several subtypes), but there's emotional, social, music, body/sports (kinesio?) intelligence, etc. We aren't taught such things as kids. Highly intelligent people live out their entire lives not realizing that academic intelligence isn't all there is, nor necessarily the most important kind of intelligence. This is why many highly intelligent people are socially awkward, and end up as loners.
@@justsomeguy2211 exactly what I was gonna write! I've often wondered about this too, we can look at some famous people and see they are not so smart, but then I'm like "well they figured out how to make millions of dollars and I've been trying for years and it hasn't worked out for me" so... there's that. lol I was really starting to wonder if intelligence is over rated lol, is it better to have resources, a great network, charisma, great looks? Intelligence is important it stops you from doing stupid stuff and helps you figure out some things others can't but it's better to have intelligence and a whole heap of either network, resources, charisma, great luck or great looks. The problem with the last 4 is it's largely by chance you're born with those things. If you're not it's a slower road to success. Especially if you gravitate towards fields without clearly marked out paths/instructions. (ie entrepreneur etc)
Is it safe to assume that one is smart because they don't have many friends? Mmm..... I don't think so. 😂 Maybe they're crazy and nobody wants to be their friend. Just saying
@@leslieoconnor4111 absolutely...(?) but i'm affraid (and pretty sure) that i don't get the point...but i say that it's dumber not to ask question than to ask a dumb question. So, point? Viva La Palestina!
Do you know someone who is extremely intelligent but hasn't been able to succeed in life (not yet at least) ?
Too many to name.
As a matter of fact I do. It’s me...
I was voted most likely to succeed. Gonna be a doctor. Due to severe depression, and then severe chronic illness, I’m disabled. From a young age what I valued was the ability to have choices offered to me and working really hard toward my lofty, seemingly unattainable goals. Now that is all gone and my life is completely determined by the will of others since I cannot do for myself. It’s a lowly and soul destroying adjustment.
Hmmmm!! I've got many family and friends like that.
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Why so many “smart” people can’t achieve their dreams? It’s because they evaluate and overthink too much on their logical perspective instead of taking any action to chase after their dream. Some don’t even achieve anything because of fear. Another reason many don’t chase after their dream because of comfort and laziness.
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Another reason is they find it boring to focus on one thing too long before moving on to the next interesting thing, they never follow through
Yes I am one of those people BuT im looking forward to change it
Hard work = good work ethic
Winning mindset = positivity/optimism from a realistic POV
Luck = smart risks
There is something I was taught long ago that helps anyone. It’s seems simple but you can be more confident in many situations.
As soon as you get a new job, have a new personal relationship, go backpacking, or buy a home ........
Make yourself an EXIT STRATEGY .... make a plan to “get out” of a situation. You won’t fear losing your job, terminating a bad relationship and so on ...... .
I spent years figuring that out on my own. I hope this is a shortcut for some as it can eliminate so much anxiety.
that would work really well in building a long, trusting and strong relationship when you have a clear way of leaving them from day one... :-/
@ You really miss the point. Preparing for the worst doesn't mean you want that to happen. I'm sure you wear a seatbelt when you drive right?
@@matthewadams8294 you are right... Always have an alternative plan 😝😝😝
@ Do you Mr.Ben, I'm making a very fair comparison and valid point. I see yours. However I don't understand how having a backup plan or preparing for the worst leads to a mediocre life. For me personally having a backup plan has saved a lot of money and stress over the years. But as long as your happy who am I to judge? Have a nice evening!
Life is not fair is what comes to mind first. Discrimination is a big one too. All people get discriminated against in some ways.
#2 is definitely the biggest reason, along with reason #10 not creating the social network needed, because they feel or come across as being aloof/unrelated to the less intelligent
An old roommate of mine in college... I studied twice as hard as him, and he usually got slightly better grades than me. But he came from an affluent family which kind of spoiled him, so he was kind of entitled, and wasn't used to having to work hard for anything. As a result, he never set goals for himself that were so high that he would have to really work hard to achieve it. He pretty much cruised though, got an okay job, and has an okay life, but is living far below his potential. He's not exactly a failure, but he lives pretty modestly, and he could do much better for himself financially, intellectually, and experienciallly if he had been willing to apply himself assiduously.
I screwed up when I became successful. I got complacent. The worst was I didn't plan or set goals. Finally and most importantly I didn't seek professional advice about my money. I hope this helps YOU!!!
Andy It Doesn’t Matter If From The Rat Race It’s a Free Country
Haha
Love all of your videos. I fell it’s so related to me. Love the channel. Thank you 🙏🏼
I call shenanigans to the story about John and his decision to stay at the 150k job or go be a soccer club manager. The dude probably worked way hard ,for way longer, to get that engineering job than mark at his dead end 40k position. If the morale is aim to have nothing to lose, aight fine, but calling John risk averse for having stayed in a position which he probably made sacrifices to get seems misleading.
I fell all your videos are so related to me. Love your channel. Thank you 🙏🏼
there is no distinction here between a dream and a goal. Dreams without hard work and goals are not achievable.
It’s not measure of health
to be well adjusted to a
profoundly sick society.
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Nice one...
Excellent
Many IITians get trapped in plum jobs and the risk proof career causes stumbling block to most dreams. The non IITians are better positioned since they don't get actually 'trapped' so they are more flexible to take different routes. However, the real success happens only by 2 things: Constant effort and single minded focus. Thank you for excellent analysis on smart people.
People often don't achieve their dreams because they aren't real; they're just dreams. Common sense should tell you not to take risks you don't need to, just because someone else thinks you should. Let them take the risks if they want, while you do what you can to keep yourself safe and secure. Life is uncertain, risky and dangerous enough without pushing your luck. In an interview Roger Moore was once asked about what happened to another actor that he knew well and had worked with; ''He tragically died too young'', replied Roger. "What from'', he was asked, ''Too much ambition", Roger replied.
People don't like to hear it but for people of similar ability and character the final variable is luck, plain and simple. The math is pretty clear. When you think of the Theory of Evolution chances are you immediately think Darwin - even though Wallace developed a theory of natural selection first. The same goes for Newton vs. Leibniz, Edison vs. Tesla, etc. And, of course, the thousands of Developers out there who are just as smart and talented as Zuck - they didn't meet the Winklevoss twins first. :)
I've always dreamed of a big hit record, or a career as a successful songwriter, or to have my own record company. Anybody will tell you, all of those things require a fantastic amount of good luck. I'm supposed to be highly intelligent, but that doesn't make any real difference
That's a good vidéo, but I would argue of removing the word "intelligent" from this title and simply say "people".
It’s Not a Competition The World Doesn’t Evolve Around 1 Person
I Don’t Have To Work Or Volunteer For The Community If I Don’t Want To That’s Totally My Choice It’s My God Given Right To Make My Own Choices It Doesn’t Matter If I’m God It’s a Free Country
It Doesn’t Matter If I’m From The Rat Race It’s a Free Country
I gave this a thumbs down, intelligent people are often overconfident that they can handle any challenge that come their way, they will take unnecessary risks, and make mistakes, and learn from it. They also lose interest very quickly and move on to something more interesting just before they reach the phase where they are considered experienced, and will become really successfull. They will also often ignore the tried and tested way of doing something and develop their own way of doing it, just because they can. Another reason is that they have a different view of what "success" entails, they will often consider finishing a challenging project to be a success and have no motivation for the boring process oc repeating the "success" over and over, thereby losing the opportunity to be "successful" in the eyes of others. Intelligent people seldom focus on one single aspect, will have a wide range of interests, and will seldom become a "successful" specialist in just one field. They will often consider achieving a whole range of successes in various challenging fields to be their dream, rather than to place all their time, energy and resourcefulness in one long dreary process to achieve success in their dream field. In short: they will have many dreams in their lifetimes and may successes, but many failures as well. Success in achieving a dream will mean finalizing the one they currently have before moving on to the next one. This guy has no idea what he is talking about, an extremely low quality youtube production.
8. they are not willing to get their hands dirty - often the opposite is the case - others perceive you as one who is only good for the trivia/peanuts and so trivia will be what you are doing until the end of your employment at this workplace...
_(you are not willing to get your hands dirty)
one accused me when I said I don't want to treat others in such a condescendant way as I often witness - cause it is part of work.
...
hard to make up rules when every rule or truth got to work in a certain context and reality
So don’t go to Harvard go to the nearest night club meet there very interesting people with diverse ideas and become successful
It Doesn’t Matter If I’m God It’s a Free Country Though Dude It Doesn’t Make Me a Terrible Person
An average mindset equals success, because it recognises the amount of work that is unglofied, but has to be done. Even the acculumation of an average wage over a long period of time can result in success. Judicious investment of said funds, can increase wealth exponentially. Not brilliant minds. Brilliant strategy.
Let me ask a question. If you achieve your dream but it doesn't last does it still count? For example let's say that your dream was always to live in a loft in Paris and then one day out of the blue luck shined upon you and you found this beautiful little flat with a breathtaking view of the Eiffel Tower. You just achieved your dream! Now lets say some unfortunate circumstances happened and you had to move out for financial reasons. You never found a place afterwards that was as nice as that. It's gone and you'll never get it back but at least you had it temporarily. It was your dream and you made it come true but it didn't last. Would that be considered achieving your dream or would you call it a failure?
attitude is the issue. Law of Attraction says "we become what we think about"... so why would you ruin your future by embedding in your subconscious mind the idea that "it's gone and you'll never get it back"? your attitude is not the result of your life- your life is the result of your attitude. fix your attitude and fix your life. start with a few hundred hours of Jim Rohn, Bob Proctor, and Brian Tracy. read Think and Grow Rich- often... then help others do the same.
52 & I'm still looking 🤔🤔
64 and still looking.
Keep looking
Thanks
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"Owed success?" Maybe they're out there, but I don't know ANY smart people that feel that way. Also disagree with "not persistent enough." "Don't believe in themselves," "believe in themselves too much?" How can these be "characteristics of smart people" if they are literally the opposite? Anybody could fall victim to those issues. "Not willing to get their hands dirty?" That one is definitely wrong. Virtually every intelligent I know is VERY hands-on. Some get their hands dirty so much they're perpetually filthy. The rest of the points seem valid, although I don't know they're necessarily characteristics of smart people.
Your # 2 example is very poor, and John made the right decision. It's great
to be a hero, and chase your pie in the sky dreams, but just remember, if
they don't work out, your family suffers greatly, and you may lose your marriage,
and kids.
You can always start a business on the side after regular work. Look what
happened to the other guy -- he could not cut it, and went back to his old job,
but John's job at $ 150,000 is a lot harder to get, and likely would have been
unemployed, and maybe lost everything. If John was 24 yrs old, then maybe OK,
but John made the right decision. It's all about risk and reward sometimes, but
you have to use common sense, and keep the lights on.
Because have not friend. My experience do my bisnis growth but I lost control because everything lost and try start again when growth I lost control lost again, start again when growth, I lost control lost again....
I have a friend named Sabrina and she is WAY smarter than me. She always say that I’m stupid and dumb. Well, Gotta show her This video.
I love your content ❤️
My dream is to not spend the end of my life in poverty. Looks like that will be a fail.
I just have no hope in my future anymore
All my classes I have Fs and the world is ending
Same, bro.
But we got to keep on moving forward. Just work hard and put in the work. The issue with grades was never that I wasn't mentally capable enough to do it but it was because I procrastinated and was terrible with time management. Also, try to search up about Credit by Exams, like CLEP, DSST, and ECE.
I believe nothing is an ending until it is good.
Oh, cheer up Adolf! Give it time and I'm pretty sure you'll come up with a final solution!
Tip #1, change your name.
Risk averse, not "adverse". These are good videos. Who are you?
The worst thing I hear is: it is not my job! That get my BP thru the roof!
Haha, I agree! You may enjoy this video: ua-cam.com/video/MjNwdbKeHGs/v-deo.html 🙂
just dont think follow your what feel want to do..and never regert
If you are stupid you have achievable dream if you are intelligent you have unachievable dream
I think I actually agree with you.j
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so true!
It's Risk Averse .. not Adverse.
Come to Brazil, and you will understand the reason.
Man, I'm getting better points from the comments!
Number one reason student loan burden
None of these things are unique to being of above average intelligence.
Question then : are intelligent people intelligent ?
Haahaa
@ Gaulois très réfractaire ! Maybe there are different kinds of intelligence. We often think only of academic intelligence (and even this may have several subtypes), but there's emotional, social, music, body/sports (kinesio?) intelligence, etc. We aren't taught such things as kids. Highly intelligent people live out their entire lives not realizing that academic intelligence isn't all there is, nor necessarily the most important kind of intelligence. This is why many highly intelligent people are socially awkward, and end up as loners.
@@justsomeguy2211 exactly what I was gonna write! I've often wondered about this too, we can look at some famous people and see they are not so smart, but then I'm like "well they figured out how to make millions of dollars and I've been trying for years and it hasn't worked out for me" so... there's that. lol I was really starting to wonder if intelligence is over rated lol, is it better to have resources, a great network, charisma, great looks?
Intelligence is important it stops you from doing stupid stuff and helps you figure out some things others can't but it's better to have intelligence and a whole heap of either network, resources, charisma, great luck or great looks. The problem with the last 4 is it's largely by chance you're born with those things. If you're not it's a slower road to success. Especially if you gravitate towards fields without clearly marked out paths/instructions. (ie entrepreneur etc)
@@bluecrystalpalace Well said! 👍
Failing to understand the politics of an organization
The Billionaire of this world are the intelligent people who do the work and Action. Ellon Musk and Bill Gates are intelligent people.
Risk-averse, not aDverse
This should be titled why intelligent and non creative people don't become successful.
Incredible Things Take Time 💯💯🇲🇦🇲🇦🇮🇱🇮🇱🏦🏦💵💵
Make a math video
Is it safe to assume that one is smart because they don't have many friends? Mmm..... I don't think so. 😂 Maybe they're crazy and nobody wants to be their friend. Just saying
Your stereotyping mould public opinion and thus adds to their misery - "smart shaming"!
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Franz I Don’t Have The Mental Capacity
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It Doesn’t Matter If I’m Not Volunteering It’s a Free Country
Because they are not intelegent they are faking it
Because of karma.
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Too smart for their own good?
People, don't get fooled: the whole fckn' game is rigged. hamster wheel world;
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@@leslieoconnor4111 absolutely...(?) but i'm affraid (and pretty sure) that i don't get the point...but i say that it's dumber not to ask question than to ask a dumb question. So, point? Viva La Palestina!
@@leslieoconnor4111 ok, got it 🌋🎆🎇