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Everyone thinks they are more intelligent and hardworking than the people around them.
by strikelaserclaw 4y ago
Everyone thinks they are more intelligent and hardworking than the people around them.
- kossTKR 4y agoNot really, lots of people know they aren't the "smartest guy in the room", or "the most specialised" or whatever, but trust their people skills, family connections, visions or simply brute force their way up. The point is that social skills and networking will get you much much further than being the semi silent, guarded and "honourable" person sitting in the corner of the room - even if you are actually way "smarter" than the socialites or the people with a flair for marketing, social games, politics etc.
- groby_b 4y agoBuilding excellence will always require you following the old adage of "if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room". There is exactly one person in the world to whom that doesn't apply in any given field. Being "quietly smarter than everybody" is a huge alarm signal that you're stuck at your current level and won't grow much further unless you change circumstances.