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• Subtitle: The Myth of Smartness This is going to sound a bit stupid, but you don't need to be smart to think like a genius. In fact, you probably don't want to be like most smart people because smart people often aren't that smart. What we consider a smart person right now, at least for most people, is someone who has memorized a lot of facts in order to achieve some level of status, whether that be through a job or career. But while they did that, they are also very good at over analyzing risk because they know so much, they have so much information in their head that they think through all of these options to the point of doing nothing, so they don't do what they want in life. Dumb people, on the other hand, take the stupid risks that change the trajectory of their lives like we talked about in our last video. Genius level thinking is not about book smarts. It's about clarity. That's why most people don't end up with the life they want because they can't think of a way out, actual thinking. And when I say actual thinking, I'm talking about the fact that the mark of a free individual is that they do what they want with their life, and this requires them to learn how to lear...