Collaborative Fund: Too Smart

Metadata

• Author: [[Morgan Housel]]
• Full Title: Collaborative Fund: Too Smart
• Category: #articles
• URL: http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/too-smart/

Highlights

• The ability to create complex stories makes it easy to fool people, including yourself.
• Richard Feynman said, “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.” The smarter you are I think the truer that becomes.
• When you’re blessed with intelligence you’re cursed with the ability to use it to concoct intricate stories about why things happened – especially stories justifying why you made a mistake or why you’ll eventually be right in an area you’re wrong.
• What’s boring is often important and the smartest people are the least interested in what’s boring.
• Intelligence can make it difficult to communicate with ordinary people, who may have the missing insight you’re looking for.
• When complexity is the preferred language of very smart people, great ideas can become walled off from ordinary people.
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