Words Of We: Idiot's Luck
Irma Vado
6/1/20264 min read
In a world full of smart people - an idiot eats well.
The idiot does not occupy himself with why, how, when. An idiot only cares to eat.
Can we say the same about smart people?
Only when they know when and how to act an idiot.
You see, for the longest time most of us had this image or an idea that the smarter you are, the better are your chances to do well in this modern world.
If you have brains, you must have money too. Or at least you will, in some respective future.
While people kept praising the so-called ‘intelligents’ and looking down on the ordinary street kids, they haven’t noticed the position that they were in themselves. Not doing that great, but also not doing too bad either. Kind of stuck in a middle frame from which they never got out of. Some tried, but couldn’t.
Spent money on business ideas, courses, levelling up - never got any idea out of the door. While someone that they work with or know - got theirs up and running in no time. All so successfully.
“How could they? They’re nowhere as smart as they seem. It must be an ‘idiots' luck’.”
The same goes for the colleagues in your office. You keep getting annoyed by their ignorance and lack of brilliance but they are the ones getting promoted, not you. And it kicks the last standing nerve of yours. All seems unfair.
“We are ‘the educated’. The people that want to get things right. We want things fair and square. How are we not getting there? Neither in politics, nor in workplaces, nor in communities or social circles”. How are idiots winning but not us?
Who’s us? The non-idiots?
There are people that see opportunity and those who don’t. Some people follow etiquette and some don’t.
You live by your moral choices.
Now, to break your moral choices is something that you should think about long and hard. Is the goal worth it? Who does it benefit besides you? Everyone is free to have a choice but if you’re self-conscious - sit, and think long and hard.
With your morals intact, you can come to the second stage - defining what exactly is an ‘idiot’s luck’.
From my point of view it’s more of an opportunity than it is luck. As we’ve established before, an idiot is not concerned with how and when. He’s only concerned with ‘what’.
“What do I want? And what do I have to do to get it?”
Being smart comes with some disadvantages. Being too smart almost gives the opposite effect you wish for. You start being too smart for your own good.
You most likely think too much and overthink things - not allowing your mind to simply flow from point A to point B. There’s D, Z, x, 3, w, 5.
“Were they a part of the journey from A to B?” No, but they were around it so you naturally considered them. All because you know it.
A baby sees A and B. He will point to A and then to B. If asked, he will go to B.
The same is for a man that is hungry. He will not concern himself with how and where. He knows he needs food and he will get it.
The same with a businessman that needs to keep his business afloat. He will not concern himself if his logo is well designed - he will pick up a call and make a sale. One sale. That’s all he needs to do to get the money coming in through the door.
He doesn't care how it looks like, or how it is perceived. He only cares to sell a product that he knows is good. And that is not an ‘idiot’s luck’. It’s most likely a very focused mind. No distractions and no unnecessary debates on things that do not bring in any money which is an ultimate goal for a said businessman.
Of course, if you’re building something that has a message that matters, then it would not apply to you, but at the same time you could look into the stream of things on how you do business and what really needs to be done in order to get that message across. Is it to update the logo? Most likely no.
It is something much greater and innovative that gets the job done - that is the ultimate goal.
Smart people distract themselves with details and unnecessary matters. They think too much about things that do not have any direct impact on the main goal. They care too much about being perfect, and right, and making everything ideal from the first go.
They believe they will be judged on their level of smartness because that’s how they judge other people too. But not the idiots.
They look at how others are succeeding and how they can top that. They look at someone’s final goal, not the steps to the goal.
Idiots have their problems too, but not when it comes to winning. Things just happen to them because they wholeheartedly believe that they can do it. It’s all they care about. They don’t distract themselves, they walk straight, and they get a bunch of idiots to surround them. And that is a powerhouse. A bunch of people with unlimited enthusiasm and focus? World domination. There’s some things we could take away from that.
In reality, nobody is saying to stop being smart. We need smart people and smart solutions. We need more people who believe in order and justice. More, who are innovative and first in the field. More that leads with their head and not their heart. Though both are needed.
Most of all, we need more smart people that succeed. More smart people in the headlines. In the governments. In the community centers. More that provides positive influence.
Do we need these smart people to learn from the idiots? Absolutely. But only take what is needed. It will stop being ‘idiot’s luck’ once smart people realise that it is simply courage and determination that they need in order to succeed.
And do we still need idiots? 100%. It is because of them that I am able to write this all down. I’ve learned from the best and I really hold this education to the highest regard.
Sometimes I wish I was an idiot too. But only for like 10 seconds.
Irma Vado
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