Comments on: Stupid People Succeed Faster?

By: Jamie Roux

Jamie Roux — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:53:42 +0000

Hi guys. Another option could be that the “stupid people” are the ones perceived to be stupid, more specifically, the ones without formal (university) education. I have a PhD and my two sons never even attended university. They are highly successful entrepreneurs. I have now resigned from my lecturing job and am now employed one of them. In our case they are the smart guys and I’m the idiot – even though I have a PhD and they don’t even have any tertiary qualification.

By: naomae

naomae — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:37:22 +0000

it doesnt matter if you’re crazy or smart person. the truth one is how you manage yourself and be perseverance, how budget your time and be able to do work in easy and faster way. if your a wise man and set your goal, thats what you call SUCCESS!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:08:07 +0000

“if you fail to plan, you also plan to fail”

This isn’t something I read everyday; a mirror, one-way street…it’s rally difficult to not plan your goal if you’re a perfectionist, but I think it’s still a case to case basis…not people can apply this trick likewise this might not work for other people who requires intense focus for them to achieve something.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:36:25 +0000

You have a good point. Smart people tend to over analyze everything, to the point that he miss the real thing that he needs to do.

By: Jason Hart

Jason Hart — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:18:05 +0000

Wow. Its really funny Ive been on a kick how I wish i was mentally handicapped and I would be doing far better in life. As the former marine mentioned the truth of the matter is action in most cases is the most important thing. The problem lies with more intellectual or possibly over thinkers that we definately get caught up with teh waht ifs and well i want to do everything so I wont do anything till I have it right. I believe the main detriment to mentally gifted individuals is the want and possibly need to use it. The downfall is the large time it generally takes not to mention getting into a position that allows them to do so. From my experience to get into anything that involves using your brain and mental gifts you generally have to suffer through seemingly meaningless unchallenging work. It is by far the most aggravating thing on earth to do things that a trained ape can do and show any type of enthusiasm for when you think about all the possible ridicule, teasing, wasted time, or inefficiency of the task. I beleive on the other hand I have seen alot of drug users or those or lower intelligent prosper by simply doing those meaningless task far more then those that tried to use their mind non-stop.
But the end point is if you can do grunt work and do well at it and not drive yourself nuts doing it then there is probally very little bad effect of being smart. The issue is simply not analyzing everything and letting the problems that you see in teh system get you down and paralyze your chances

By: Richard McLaughlin

Richard McLaughlin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:59:24 +0000

the reputation of people in the US Marine Corps (in which I proudly served 8 years) is that of stupid people. No education and only suited to follow orders. But, when you give a Marine an order it gets done.

The story goes that the day following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait the Prez had a meeting with the commanders of the 4 branches of the US military.
The army was asked how long they needed to be ready, 6 weeks minimum, probably more.
the navy had ships in the region, but needed a month to be combat ready.
the air force could also be ready for full scale battle in about a month.
the Marine Commandant said that troops were boarding planes and would be in country the following day. My Recon unit parachuted into Iraq (not a neighboring country, but in Iraq) less than 90 hours after the flags went up.
Recon, they were sent to watch movement and count people.

In business, do you want wizards of the industry that will analyze, plan, design, re-design, implement a test project, re-design, implement beta, re-design, implement a large scale test (well, you get the picture) or do you want a team that will go out, make sales and correct along the way?

I vote for the second option.

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By: Welly

Welly — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:34:29 +0000

Eddie – Yes you nailed it right. That is exactly the message the speaker wanted to convey (at least that’s what I thought). I like the fog analogy.

By: Eddie Winkler

Eddie Winkler — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:57:08 +0000

I believe that basically that the message is meant to relay the importance of action and not overthinking your goals. The biggest thing about taking action is learning how to fail faster. I think that is the real message. Failing faster and learning from it, getting back up and going at it again is what really seperates successful people from dreamers.

The best analogy for this I think I ever heard is that success is like a fog. You can only see maybe at times a couple of feet in front of you. Once you get there you can only see the next few feet. So on and so forth. Sometimes you don’t need to have everything planned exact to get where you want to be, you just have to have a good sense of direction in where you are going and some people are more in touch with this skill than others. Great post Welly.

By: Welly

Welly — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:48:15 +0000

Alley,

I think what the speaker is trying to convey is basically the same as what you intend to say, only that maybe he shouldn’t have named the show “Stupid people succeed faster”