I know this seems like an odd thing to be complaining about, but being smart isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
I’ll give you an example.
When you’re smart, you’re all the time seeing people doing dumb things, mostly because they just haven’t figured out that there’s a smarter way they could be doing them. And you can’t just tell them they’re doing dumb things because more times than not that will just make them all the more determined to keep on doing things the same dumb way just to spite you. People are funny that way.
Now if you can make them think that they came up with a smarter way of doing things themselves, this changes everything. Because then they get to feel smart and not stupid. Which of course is exactly the way everybody wants to feel.
But let me tell you there are plenty of downsides to feeling smart too much too often.
So it’s like I said. Being smart isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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