When you are dumb or think you are dumb, life is much simpler. You don’t constantly feel pressured to “out-do” all the other dumb people in the world that does better than you financially. that’s the trap that many very intelligent people, PHD’s and engineers, make. They think because of their superior intellect, they should have no problems mastering the day to day “easier” things other people are able to be successful with. And when they fall short or miss opportunity, it doesn’t compute. “How could that be? I’m smarter….” Nope, not really. So just be dumb. Life is much .ore simple and happulier. and you’ll probably do better too!
All the people that made a shitload of money on real estate. Do you think many of them even know about Case Shiller ?
And work wise the moment I stopped doing the really hard work of hands on detail oriented engineering only smart people do, I’m now doing much dumber tasks like most senior directors. I attend meetings, I coordinate, inremoce roadblocks other managers directors or situations create, I maken high level architectural decisions.
..my hours are better and I get paid a lot more for doing this, more than when I was doing a lot smarter work….
