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You Don’t Have to Be Smart to Become Successful
It’s about grit, trying, not being afraid to fail and some luck
Reflective personalities (like yours truly) fall into this trap often.
It seems that people who have achieved some sort of success know something, that we, mere mortals, don’t. It can seem that there is some hidden mental pattern or a brilliant idea that will instantly make us a fortune.
This couldn’t have been farther from the truth.
From what I see, success in life, business, blogging, or just about anything is not correlated with being smart, reflective and knowing what you’re doing. Unlike school, you don’t have to have a plan to be successful in life.
What you need instead is grit, the desire to experiment and try new things and, of course, luck.
If all you do is think, all you do is think.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise, yet many of us forget about it.
Planning the business out is not the same as building it. Wanting to become a famous blogger is not the same as blogging daily, especially on days when you don’t feel like it. Getting better at something is not the same as watching YouTube videos about it.
