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It's not just for school children, it's good advice for everyone all the time. I know plenty of ineffective adults who are constantly on guard defending their

It's not just for school children, it's good advice for everyone all the time. I know plenty of ineffective adults who are constantly on guard defending their image, behaving in pretentious ways, and focused altogether too much on sending social signals (hell I'm probably doing it right now by posting this comment, trying to send a social signal of intelligence). We try to remind each other of wisdom with catch phrases like "think outside the box". I think "ask all the dumb questions" might be a good catch phrase too. As for Jimmy Carter I agree and I have to wonder: why is it that intelligence seems to be strongly inversely coorelated with effectiveness as a president? Jimmy Carter was wildly intelligent and a really nice guy, but couldn't get anything done. Donald Trump is less intelligent and often abrasive, yet he seems to be getting heaps of accomplishments under his belt (not all good ones, but largely so). Is it quantity vs quality? Or paralysis of analysis? There is no definitive answer as these are judgement calls, but I think this is fertile ground for aspiring entrepreneurs to try and grok.

TMWNN 7y ago
>As for Jimmy Carter I agree and I have to wonder: why is it that intelligence seems to be strongly inversely coorelated with effectiveness as a president? Jimmy Carter was wildly intelligent and a really nice guy, but couldn't get anything done. Donald Trump is mentally challenged and kind of a prick, yet he seems to be getting heaps of accomplishments under his belt (not all good ones, but largely so). Is it quantity vs quality? Or paralysis of analysis? There is no definitive answer as these are judgement calls, but I think this is fertile ground for aspiring entrepreneurs to try and grok. Paul Johnson discusses this in his chapter in Heroes about Reagan, Thatcher, and John Paul II. He has concluded that politicians succeed when they focus on three or four simple ideas. Reagan was very different from Thatcher—he was, according to Johnson (a personal friend of both, mind you), ignorant and poorly educated, while she was an Oxford-educated chemist with a law degree—but they both focused on straightforward goals, reducing government's reach and fighting Soviet Communism being two they shared. They worked very well together, too. Trump's list seems to include * China * Illegal aliens * North Korea * US manufacturing

TMWNN 7y ago

>As for Jimmy Carter I agree and I have to wonder: why is it that intelligence seems to be strongly inversely coorelated with effectiveness as a president? Jimmy Carter was wildly intelligent and a really nice guy, but couldn't get anything done. Donald Trump is mentally challenged and kind of a prick, yet he seems to be getting heaps of accomplishments under his belt (not all good ones, but largely so). Is it quantity vs quality? Or paralysis of analysis? There is no definitive answer as these are judgement calls, but I think this is fertile ground for aspiring entrepreneurs to try and grok. Paul Johnson discusses this in his chapter in Heroes about Reagan, Thatcher, and John Paul II. He has concluded that politicians succeed when they focus on three or four simple ideas. Reagan was very different from Thatcher—he was, according to Johnson (a personal friend of both, mind you), ignorant and poorly educated, while she was an Oxford-educated chemist with a law degree—but they both focused on straightforward goals, reducing government's reach and fighting Soviet Communism being two they shared. They worked very well together, too. Trump's list seems to include * China * Illegal aliens * North Korea * US manufacturing