Of course not. Smart people also have shortcomings. They are easy to be conceited, impetuous and eager for success. In the process of change, they often can't even foresee the end of things themselves.
If you can choose, do you want to be a smart person with high IQ or a diligent ordinary person?
Most of the answers may be the former, but don't be too smart in the workplace, and be careful that "cleverness is mistaken by cleverness." Why?
First, the fool will laugh last.
Smart people usually have many opportunities, but they often don't have enough concentration, and finally fall into a seemingly beautiful trap.
Like many of the smartest young people, they began to change jobs frequently after graduation for less than a year. After many twists and turns, they are more and more confused, but they miss the places they have been.
This kind of thing often appears around us, and it is also the career track of many people. Many people look at the high mountain, but they can't see the scenery under their feet.
Many people finally understand that in the story of monkeys picking sesame seeds, why did the clever monkeys get nothing? Because he picked up sesame seeds and lost watermelon, he was "smarter than them".
Smart people sometimes forget that a noble head should also be worthy of an empty cup and a calm heart. As the saying goes, "Two heads are better than one", and proper "stupidity" is a virtue and also a kind of wisdom.
If you drifted to a desert island and could only take three things, what would you take?
An old man replied: swimming pears, hens, fools. Why not take a fool instead of a wise man? Because smart people will cut pear trees, eat hens, and even harm their owners in the end. And a fool who can swim can work hard with you to survive and save you desperately when necessary. Eventually he will reap the benefits of growing pears, raising chickens and laying eggs.
Fool is a kind of talent, a calmer determination, and often it is not the wise man who laughs last, but the fool.
Second, we should turn "cleverness" into "wisdom" in a down-to-earth manner.
There is an old saying that "it is easy to know, easy to understand, and difficult to put into action." Smart people often have the wisdom of "frowning and thinking", but they are often limited to "brainstorming". They are not good at doing things in a down-to-earth manner and are headstrong. As a result, they are smart and mistaken.
How clever and cleverly organized Wang Xifeng in a dream of red mansions is, but the ending is a tragedy. In modern enterprise management, countless ups and downs in the workplace seem to have similar situations: many people have the smartest minds, and they have ideas when they pat their heads ... However, people with high IQ are often not the final winners. This is a very strange phenomenon, but it is true.
There are some meteors in business circles in China. They have a keen sense of smell and high IQ, and may even be the smartest people in China business circles after the reform and opening up. They can quickly gain insight into consumer psychology, carefully package various concept products and quickly form a market scale, and then quickly disappear. They can also spend a lot of money on CCTV's advertising bidding meeting ... where are these smart people today? Some people failed, and some people were very depressed.
Why do these smart people cross the night sky like meteors and disappear quietly? Perhaps true cleverness is not just "playing tricks", but applying their intelligence to practical things to form great wisdom.
Some people define the meaning of "smart" like this: an individual's IQ is higher than the normal value of ordinary people, and such people are often called smart people in our lives.
Following this logic, we will find that many successful entrepreneurs are not extremely smart. On the contrary, they may be poor students.
According to a statistic, at most, only 10% of them have superior IQ, and the remaining 90% have average IQ. However, they succeeded.
Ma Yun, an entrepreneur in China, failed the college entrance examination twice and then made a living as an English major. In his work, he found that big data on the Internet has huge room for development. With a keen sense of smell, he started his entrepreneurial journey through practice, and successively founded well-known e-commerce brands such as Alibaba, Taobao, Alipay, Alibaba Cloud, etc., and became the leader of the Internet in China, opening a new situation of leading global B2B business, e-commerce services and online shopping.
Through Ma Yun's story, you will find that ordinary is not a bad thing. Compared with speculators, cleverness is not a bad thing, but it may be. This is God's first gift to us. We should turn this gift into wisdom, promote practice with wisdom, and act on the basis of wisdom, so as to get twice the result with half the effort. The premise of change is that you must keep your feet on the ground.
Third, success needs to exert one's potential to the limit.
The movie Forrest Gump tells the story of an American youth named Forrest Gump. His IQ is only 75, so it is difficult to get into primary school. However, he succeeded in almost everything: long-distance running, playing table tennis and catching shrimp. In the end, he became a successful entrepreneur, but his classmates and comrades smarter than him failed. This seems to be a mockery of wisdom.
Forrest Gump's favorite sentence is: "Mom said to give you the gift to the extreme." This film expresses a concept of success: success is to maximize one's potential.