Why Some Dumb People Get Rich When Smart People Don’t

I’ll tell you something that completely contradicts the fairy tales you’ve been told by modern coaches, mentors, business gurus, and so on. They supposedly work 24/7. About how they were allegedly very poor, but had the mindset of billionaires, and eventually fought and never gave up, and it all worked out for them in the end.

In reality, you know, every one of these stories always ends with someone having a father who was the mayor of Hawaii, or another getting a huge loan at 0% interest from an uncle to develop their business. I won’t have any of that nonsense.

I will give you the pure truth. So get ready for a different version. Ask any honest, truly honest wealthy person where their money came from.

They will admit to you that at some point in their life, they just got lucky. That’s it. Moreover, they didn’t even understand how and why.

They just met the right people, signed the right contract, everything somehow fell into place, and things took off. That is, circumstances beyond their control led them to success and wealth.

If financial well-being depended on abilities, hard work, knowledge, and so on, then, firstly, smart, energetic, quick-witted people would be the richest in the world.

Secondly, we would see an obvious superiority of some people over others due to their traits and characteristics.

Thirdly, there would be real, tangible, and controllable tools that make external circumstances work for us.

Fourthly, everyone who learned about these tools would use them and become the richest person on the planet.

In short, this can go on endlessly. But as we see, this is not the case. Everything is exactly the opposite.

Some toothless, unpleasant, untidy, dirty guy who didn’t even finish college is engaged in wholesale fruit sales and just gets lucky and is richer than you, me, and all of us combined.

And the same way, a genius with three higher education degrees, with training, with sales funnels, works for such a guy for a small salary and can’t do anything about it. How can you explain this?

I know many smart, active people who are considered losers by today’s standards. But I also know many inert, conservative lazy people with ossified brains. And they are all wealthy.

Although none of them knows what a sales funnel is, they didn’t graduate from Harvard, and none of them took any training, but they have the money.

But there is also the other side of the coin, when the lucky streak of these successful people ends, everything collapses in a short time.

It seems that some invisible force launched some kind of liquidation mechanism, and in a couple of weeks, due to numerous strange circumstances, a company with a multi-million turnover just fell apart. Two weeks and the company was gone.

And no matter what the (previously mega-successful businessman) did, nothing worked out. It seemed that he knew the whole system inside and out. He knew what to do, and how to do it, which meant he would easily be able to repeat the same thing – create a successful and profitable company, but how wrong he was, seriously wrong.

He did everything possible and impossible, but nothing worked out. Absolutely nothing. Meetings were canceled, roads were blocked, I don’t know, accounts were blocked, managers were fired, deliveries, and cars broke down. Anything that could go wrong did, and all to his detriment.

It’s not even about him, not about the quality of his efforts. There is a force against him that simply cannot be overcome no matter how hard he tries.

He realizes that there is someone against whom no one can win. And today, that someone is against him, that’s all.

This content reflects the author’s opinion.