How To Be Smarter By Getting Dumb
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Overconfidence has destroyed a countless amount of entreprenuer. Just look at the NetFlix pricing debacle. Overconfidence robs you of an open mind, it makes you blind to the innovation of competition, and it allows you to be stagnant.
Entreprenuer must travel a fine line between confidence and overconfidence. You must have full faith in what you’re doing and simultaneously understand that you could be proven wrong at any moment.
Why You Need to Visit Dumb
Perhaps the most important part of this is that we come down from confidence every once in a while. We must forget everything we know in order to find out what’s really going on.
1. Keeps your mind open. When you come from a place of inferiority your mind is more open to improvement.
2. You see more. When you come from a place of inferiority you are forced to observe what’s happening around you. When you know you don’t know what’s best then you have to see what the others are doing.
3. Keeps you in the growth mindset. Realizing you don’t know everything forces you to see that you still have a lot of growth left.
4. You become more likable. When you realize that you can learn something from anybody you begin to respect them more and when you respect someone they are more likely to like you. It’s good to have friends in this life.
How To Get More Dumber
They are practices for using every experience as something to learn from.
1. Talk to smart people outside your field of expertise. More and more it’s important to have an intersection of expertise.
2. Talk to a ‘dumb’ person. Like Cato said, “Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.” A smart person will observe a dumb one and learn something.
3. Look at the ones who shouldn’t be making it. Look at the people who are making it who shouldn’t be. What do they do that they others don’t? It’s likely they have found something that other’s haven’t.
4. Flip your assumptions. Attempt to list out all your basic assumptions about your business and then flip them on their heads. To see your assumptions you need to question everything you believe – it’s hard.
5. Read something different. Read a book that’s different than what you would have otherwise. Relate these different perspectives onto your own world and see where they can help.
6. Visit different places. Visit the workplace of somebody in a different field from you. It’s fun to go to another country to but it’s much easier to notice the different cultures close to you.
7. Attempt different things. When you learn a new skill you will inevitably find principles that you can transport to your main work.
8. Be inconsistent . Emerson said, “Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” What he’s saying so beautifully is that our fear of being inconsistent holds us back from learning.
9. Look at the best. When you think you’re the best just hope on Google and find somebody better than you. How did they get better? Did they work harder? Smarter?
Remember You’re Not Actually Dumb: Rehab
I gave you a bunch of ideas to remind yourself of your inferiority. If we take our own inferiority too seriously then we can be chased away from doing our own best work.
1. Remember you chose to practice the inferiority tactics. You purposely used those tactics to learn more to make your own life better.
2. It’s about you, not them. You are here to learn the most and make your life the most enjoyable thing it can be.
3. Focus on being better. Keep your focus on getting better at what you’re doing. The importance of seeing yourself as less knowledgeable than other people is that you can use that information to get better yourself.
4. Remember skills come slowly. Stay patient and trust in your practice – you’ll get there eventually.
5. Set yourself up for small wins. It’s easy to be overwhelmed when you are faced with a task that hasn’t been broken down.
6. Amaze yourself with some science facts. If you look out into space you remember the bigness of the whole universe and it will give you another perspective on your life.
Don’t be scared to be dumb before you die!
For more detailed article just click this > Smart entreprenuer
Entreprenuer must travel a fine line between confidence and overconfidence. You must have full faith in what you’re doing and simultaneously understand that you could be proven wrong at any moment.
Why You Need to Visit Dumb
Perhaps the most important part of this is that we come down from confidence every once in a while. We must forget everything we know in order to find out what’s really going on.
1. Keeps your mind open. When you come from a place of inferiority your mind is more open to improvement.
2. You see more. When you come from a place of inferiority you are forced to observe what’s happening around you. When you know you don’t know what’s best then you have to see what the others are doing.
3. Keeps you in the growth mindset. Realizing you don’t know everything forces you to see that you still have a lot of growth left.
4. You become more likable. When you realize that you can learn something from anybody you begin to respect them more and when you respect someone they are more likely to like you. It’s good to have friends in this life.
How To Get More Dumber
They are practices for using every experience as something to learn from.
1. Talk to smart people outside your field of expertise. More and more it’s important to have an intersection of expertise.
2. Talk to a ‘dumb’ person. Like Cato said, “Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.” A smart person will observe a dumb one and learn something.
3. Look at the ones who shouldn’t be making it. Look at the people who are making it who shouldn’t be. What do they do that they others don’t? It’s likely they have found something that other’s haven’t.
4. Flip your assumptions. Attempt to list out all your basic assumptions about your business and then flip them on their heads. To see your assumptions you need to question everything you believe – it’s hard.
5. Read something different. Read a book that’s different than what you would have otherwise. Relate these different perspectives onto your own world and see where they can help.
6. Visit different places. Visit the workplace of somebody in a different field from you. It’s fun to go to another country to but it’s much easier to notice the different cultures close to you.
7. Attempt different things. When you learn a new skill you will inevitably find principles that you can transport to your main work.
8. Be inconsistent . Emerson said, “Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” What he’s saying so beautifully is that our fear of being inconsistent holds us back from learning.
9. Look at the best. When you think you’re the best just hope on Google and find somebody better than you. How did they get better? Did they work harder? Smarter?
Remember You’re Not Actually Dumb: Rehab
I gave you a bunch of ideas to remind yourself of your inferiority. If we take our own inferiority too seriously then we can be chased away from doing our own best work.
1. Remember you chose to practice the inferiority tactics. You purposely used those tactics to learn more to make your own life better.
2. It’s about you, not them. You are here to learn the most and make your life the most enjoyable thing it can be.
3. Focus on being better. Keep your focus on getting better at what you’re doing. The importance of seeing yourself as less knowledgeable than other people is that you can use that information to get better yourself.
4. Remember skills come slowly. Stay patient and trust in your practice – you’ll get there eventually.
5. Set yourself up for small wins. It’s easy to be overwhelmed when you are faced with a task that hasn’t been broken down.
6. Amaze yourself with some science facts. If you look out into space you remember the bigness of the whole universe and it will give you another perspective on your life.
Don’t be scared to be dumb before you die!
For more detailed article just click this > Smart entreprenuer