Do you consider yourself an INTELLECTUAL? If you spend much of your life focused on your smarts, and making sure others know you’re smart… you may be struggling. Are you? You are probably very logical and rational. The world of emotions is spontaneous, often illogical...
You may believe that your highest value is you being smart and you see the world through this lens. It could be central in all your activities because all that you heard as you grew up was praise about your smartness, where you graduated from, how brainy you are… When...
Most people confuse intelligence and smartness. I did too, for a long time. I was on the board of a business. A fellow board member asked me about how to structure the company for better tax treatment. I said, “I don’t know”. Visibly annoyed with me, he said, “But,...
