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I took a lil detour and found @cameronās lil cove (I actually wrote it in my notes app so Iād remember to check it out during the weekend) ā¦ and bruhhh, when I tell you, heās so real for this, Iām not kidding
Like, painfully realā¦
Itās one of those monologues you want to laugh at, not because itās wrong, but because it hits too close to home.
The number of times Iāve sat around, annoyed that someone ādumber than meā is absolutely thriving in their lane, not because theyāre better than me, but because they stayed in the game long enough to get betterā¦ is a little embarrassing.
And when he laid out the Dunning Kruger curve and was like, ādumb people live on Mount Stupid and never leave,ā I almost threw my phone cause itās so true, like offensively true š
The gag is: smart people get self-conscious. We love nuance. We canāt help seeing all the flaws, the gaps, the ways something could be better, so we stop ourselves
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We let our self-awareness eat us alive before the world even has a chance to criticize us. And meanwhile, the guy who canāt spell āentrepreneurā has launched three businesses, crashed two, and is lowkey living off the third š
Itās not even about intelligence, Itās about ego, Itās shame, Itās fear of public mediocrity. Itās thinking you should be excellent on day one because you know better, so when youāre not, itās crushing.
But Cameronās point is that knowing better doesnāt make you better, doing it over and over again, regardless of how cringe it feels, does
And thatās where it actually gets deep, because how many of us are sitting in the valley of despair, overqualified, overthinking, and underperforming simply because we refused to let ourselves be a little stupid in public? Iāve got entire graveyards of ideas that died in that pit š
So yeah, itās a brutal truth, but itās also kinda liberating
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