Smart vs Stupid

During a conversation recently with Marcus, we had a mini-epiphany about the behaviors of smart people versus the behavior of stupid people.

A mini-epiphany, for me, is an epiphany about the everyday things in life, and they're usually general or relatively minor and not life-altering... An epiphany, without the mini, is more life-changing or altering, and usually changes our perspective completely.

So, this is what we came up with.


Smart people think they're stupid, or fallible, or know they sometimes make mistakes, so they double check things. Like the date/time for a scheduled meeting. They don't assume that when a person says, meet Tuesday they mean the very next Tuesday, they check the date too.

Stupid people assume they're smart. They think they've got something or know something without having to take a moment to ensure they actually do... Now this doesn't mean they're holistically stupid, just being stupid or deluded in that particular moment - though please look for patterns of this in your life if this is true for you.

This all can happen very quickly in the way we interact and check or verify our perceptions. If you think you're in the second category, it's time to heighten your awareness. Since you've likely created a subconscious pattern or habit of misinterpreting information, you're going to have to reprogram yourself via some sort of bedtime reprogramming or hypnotherapy or retraining yourself to create new patterns. The easiest way to do this on your own is using nighttime journaling or affirmation stating, since we're most naturally suggestible at night before sleep. I like The Mental Bank program by John Kappas, which I'll be teaching in the near future, but if you're interested, you can check it out at http://www.hypnosis.edu/bookstore/self-improvement/mental-bank/. You don't even have to buy anything. There's a free video of it online and when I started it, I used a plain notebook (rather than buying the workbook). If you're doing it on your own though, please remember to do all three: value events; happenings/wins; and affirmations every night. It's been working great for me for changing old patterns/limitations about money and income.

In the past I might've shied away from such gross generalizations, but if I've pissed you off with the above, check to see if you exhibit some of the behaviors of the second description. Also, eliciting some response is good, even if you vehemently disagree.

Let me know what you think.