to answer this question we have to ask what smart even means. if it means you can "figure stuff out at work" congrats, you can follow instructions in a structu

to answer this question we have to ask what smart even means. if it means you can "figure stuff out at work" congrats, you can follow instructions in a structured, specialist environment. to become legitimately "rich", however, in most cases you have to own part of a business. and in the world of entrepreneurship, you have to be much more of a generalist, as there are 10 different factors (sales, product, timing, pricing) you must all get right. I can virtually guarantee you the best person at math in the world is not rich, because they have gone full specialist to get to that point, and therefore cannot succeed outside of an extremely structured environment. "Range, Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World" by David Epstein is a great book on this topic.