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Smart doesn't really get you that much. I compare it to height for a basketball player. Realistically, you're not gonna make NBA if you're not over 6' tall, but
by theonemind 6y ago
Smart doesn't really get you that much. I compare it to height for a basketball player. Realistically, you're not gonna make NBA if you're not over 6' tall, but that's just the buy in. After that, it's just grueling hard work, and everyone else is 6'+ as well.
So, as a first step, count intelligence as nothing more than a (very) rough constraint on what you might possibly accomplish, but nothing more. It covers the ante, but not the hand.
- murm 6y agoThis is a good comparison. Just because you were born with genes that make you 6' tall does not mean that the world should somehow automatically lay itself out in front of you. You can try to make it in the NBA, but you're still going to work like hell because you're competing against all the other people who also happened to be born with those tall genes. Ditto for intelligence.