Dude. You’re not “pretty dumb.” You’re clearly (a) quite reasonably intelligent (b) good at hard work with a goal, given your achievements.
And frankly, you only need a moderate amount of (a) for (b) to be the deciding factor that will make you a success in life. Look how many posts there are here on how not to procrastinate, for example.
You know how to work to a goal, so what you need is not IQ, but a big goal.
You also have a very powerful correct instinct: find people smarter than yourself to hang around with. There’s not much that enables complacency more than finding oneself the most interesting and successful person one knows. You know people like that. I sure know people like that. They’re rather less interesting to anyone who isn’t themselves.
(I’m definitely in the “moderately bright” rather than “searing genius” box. I still don’t understand EY’s “simple” explanation of Bayes. Somehow I muddle through with a facility with words.)
Dude. You’re not “pretty dumb.” You’re clearly (a) quite reasonably intelligent (b) good at hard work with a goal, given your achievements.
And frankly, you only need a moderate amount of (a) for (b) to be the deciding factor that will make you a success in life. Look how many posts there are here on how not to procrastinate, for example.
You know how to work to a goal, so what you need is not IQ, but a big goal.
You also have a very powerful correct instinct: find people smarter than yourself to hang around with. There’s not much that enables complacency more than finding oneself the most interesting and successful person one knows. You know people like that. I sure know people like that. They’re rather less interesting to anyone who isn’t themselves.
(I’m definitely in the “moderately bright” rather than “searing genius” box. I still don’t understand EY’s “simple” explanation of Bayes. Somehow I muddle through with a facility with words.)