January 23, 2022

 I am happy with what I was able to accomplish today when I focused on getting things done. The problem was that for the majority of the day, I just sat around and did not do anything. The good news is that I eventually made things happen.

I was able to plan out my upcoming week and review my past week which was great as well.

I did not make any progress on my business side but I was able to get more organized and feel prepared for the this upcoming week.

What I have been thinking about?

A lot of people will celebrate your failure.

I am not sure if you are aware but the Packers lost this weekend. This means they are no longer in the playoffs. Some of my relatives thought that this would be a fun thing to celebrate because they are Vikings fans.

This got me thinking, how some people who are not as successful as you will love to see you fail because it makes them feel better about themselves.

These people are a waste of your time.

“If you are the smartest person in the room leave the room.”

This is a quote that is fun to say until you realize that if everyone followed this advice, we would just have a bunch of empty rooms because everyone was too smart to be there.

Another way to think about it.

We measure smartness (totally making this term up) the wrong way.

We see it as a bar graph where IQ is just one-dimensional, it’s not.

Your IQ is a radar graph with different points and different dimensions to it.

While you may be really smart in economics you could be totally stupid in HR so don’t think that you are the smartest person by the typical IQ measurement alone.