This post looks at the second of four excuses people often use for their lack of success – intelligence. People worry whether they are clever enough. This article explains why some of the most successful people have been the least educated. So let’s see, are you clever enough to work from home?
In some circles, working from home has, undeservedly, a bad reputation. Just listen to Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom in the following TEDxStanford video talking about productivity data of people who “work at home in their pajamas or on their couches” in comparison to people commuting every day and work in a cubicle for 8 hours every day.
In his book The Magic of Thinking Big, David Schwartz starts with the four main excuses people use as reasons for accepting their position in life. Once you accept these excuses they become like a disease, you begin to believe your own press and stop trying. Many people feel they lack the “intelligence” to be successful. However, what many people do is confuse education with intelligence.
An educated person is different from an intelligent person. To be very educated you need to be of average intelligence only. However, you can be very intelligent and have little or no education. This is because education is about learning a skill or facts and memorizing them. As long as you are of average intelligence you can learn most skills, provided you decide to and stick at it and become an expert.
