Smart people are good at digesting complex matters and finding solutions to the most challenging problems in the world. However, when it comes to entrepreneurship many of them are perennial failures. So, how comes they don't they use their incredible brain power to their advantage? This article is based on research done by The Ohio State University in The USA.
Reason 1: Smart People Make Good Employees Not Entrepreneurs
Smart people perform quite well in school. If all goes well they get well paying jobs from big companies and they start living comfortably. On the other hand, their “not-so-smart” friends struggle to find jobs and having fewer survival options they are forced to take unconventional risks. Majority of the not-so-smart guys fail, but the few who succeed are so aggressive that they beat the smart guys to the top.
While the not-so-smart people are busy building pipelines, the smart guys are busy carrying buckets for their employers…and as you know the pipeline builders eventually get an upper hand over the bucket carriers.
Reason 2: Smart People Overanalyze Situations
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Smart people know all reasons why something won’t work. For instance, they know all too well the risks behind each and every business idea out there. Given an opportunity to start, they overanalyze the situation trying to balance between its advantages and disadvantages.
At the end of the day they don’t do anything concrete with their lives simply because they think they know too much. They keep analyzing and questioning other ideologies until the cows come home. Remember, a person who risks nothing, loses nothing, gets nothing and ends up with nothing.
Reason 3: Smart People Are Too Ethical To Survive
Sometimes, in order to make it in business you have to bend some personal values and beliefs in order to negotiate your way around some situations. However, smart people don’t want to do that. They believe in adhering to their own moral code and this limits their ability to achieve success.
It’s not a surprise, most learned people prefer to fight for white collar-jobs because they don’t want to go back to their rural areas to farm and promote agri-business. To them, agri-jobs are for the unlearned and don’t conform to their moral code.
Reason 4: Smart People Lack Focus
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They are bright and intelligent in life. However, one huge challenge facing smart people is the ability to maintain focus. They are talented in many areas of life and they spend most of their active life juggling between these talents. At the end of the day they lose focus as their immense brain-power is spread over into multiple circles of life. Eventually, they don’t achieve anything major in life.
The exact opposite happens with the not-so-smart people. Because they know that their brains are not capable of handling too many things they tend to focus on one major goal in life. Once they achieve it they end up in a (financially) better position than the smart people (who are stuck all along admiring their many talents).
What Lesson Can You Learn From This Article
We are all equal and intelligence or smartness is not a factor of explaining prosperity in life and entrepreneurship. Those with low intelligence should not believe they are handicapped, and those with high intelligence should not mistakenly believe they have an advantage.
