If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.
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Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.
I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Ultimately, there is no definition for smartness. It's just the ability to do what you want to do really well.
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.
All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.
The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are not at the top 1 percent of whatever it is we do, then we are not good enough. To reinforce this already pervasive mental model, society has established a competitive hierarchy for just about everything.
Everybody can be smart.