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How do You Get Smarter?
A shortlist of life lessons to get you ahead
Life will mess you up. It messes up each us with its own unique agenda.
If you are lucky enough, you’ll find important lessons within those obstacles.
Here are a few things I’ve done to get to where I am; things that I’m still doing today and things that I learned along the way that made me better.
Go into things without anticipation or expectation.
This teaches you to learn and grow without expecting something at the end. If you end up making something out of your venture, that’s extra. If you don’t, you didn’t anticipate anything. I had a teacher in high school who taught me that you should always anticipate the worst possible outcome. That way, anything that comes out of the project that’s more than the worst ends up being a bonus.
Your closest friends should be smarter than you.
This can be a restatement of being the smartest person in the room. If you find yourself being the smartest in the room, you’re in the wrong room.
You are the average of your closest friends. If they are smarter, you are the weight pushing them down, however, they are simultaneously pulling you up. You are…
