Never be the smartest person in the room

Author: Insight · ELM

Rather than standing chicken groups, it is better to leave the chicken group.

Dell Boss Michael Dell, when he gave a speech at his alma mater, was asked by the student:

"What habit, let you start from scratch and create the world's largest personal computer company."

Dell replied: "Don't be the smartest person in the room."

Facing the doubts of everyone, Dell explained:

"At first I was the worst person in college, so I went to the person with the best grades.

When I feel that I can't get more things from them and get more things, I choose to drop out of school and start a business to learn from the managers of outstanding companies such as HP and Apple.

At each stage, I can find a smarter than myself, and use them as a goal to motivate myself to continue to change. "

Do not know enough and forge ahead.

The smartest person in the room is to see the wisdom and died on the road of life.

01

Shakespeare said in "Judging": "The fool thinks he is smart, and the wise man has self -knowledge."

The greatest wisdom in the world is to accept that you will not be as good as others in some aspects.

The person who holds himself to the first place is unwilling to make changes, refuses different opinions, narrow and radical.

Recently reviewing the American drama "The Big Bang" was impressed by Sheldon.

At the age of 14, Sheldon received a doctorate degree, and at the age of 24, became a professor at the California Institute of Technology. It was recognized by everyone.

In a discipline competition, he dismissed with anyone, but found 3 teammates and asked them to stay silent during the competition.

He believes that with his own wisdom, he can easily win the championship even if he played against all the players alone.

Who knew that during the final, Shelton met a question that made him puzzled, and his teammates who had been pulled by him easily gave the answer easily.

As soon as the answer was correct, he would seem to be smarter than himself, so he would rather lose the game and refuse to submit the answer to his teammates.

Writer Lawrence Gonzaarez wrote in the article "Deception of Devil": "Those who are the smartest in order to prove that they are the smartest, they often do the stupidest thing."

The arrogance comes from shallow, low -key based on vision.

The shallower, the easier it is to be covered by the clouds for a while, and it is considered that there is no one in the world.

The more you see the world, understand your smallness, the more you know how to converge, the more you want to converge.

02

Sociologist Hawthorne did an experiment.

He arranged two groups of workers with equivalent technical levels to count the number of parts made in the same time.

Before the experiment, he made a request to the first group of workers: do his best to make more parts.

For the second group, Hawthorne introduced a team leader of the trial team and encouraged others to work hard to make the same parts as the team leader in the unit time.

After the experiment, the average trial volume of the first group of workers was less than half of the second group of workers.

Many times, the environment that limits your development is not ability and IQ, but an environment that makes you not feel the gap.

As Sequoia Capital, the United States partnership, Geng Lyon said:

"Don't always want to be the best person in the circle. If you are already, I suggest you change your circle or invite a higher clever person."

The well -known calligrapher Liu Gongquan became the most proficient in regular script in the town when he was 7 years old.

He often hung his work in front of his door, listening to the praise of the young and old neighbors, and he was very proud.

Until one day, a foreign guest who visited his visit to his calligraphy after seeing his calligraphy:

"Although the words are beautiful, the pen is too thin, such as loose tofu. Some people in our town in the town are much better than this."

Liu Gongquan became angry and became angry. He rushed to the town where the guests lived in the night and saw a stall owner who set up a stall.

The stall owner's hands were disabled, but he wrote on the paper with his toes.

From then on, Liu Gongquan took the initiative to leave the town and brought a pen and pen to the Quartet.

Every new place, he always finds a person who is more proficient in calligraphy than himself, and his skills are continuously improved in the process.

Writer Wu Jun once said: "When you feel that you are better than everyone around you, you must be vigilant, because you may lose your direction in a low -level world."

The result of the crowd chicken group is always assimilated by mediocrity, and then everyone is like everyone.

Stay away from chickens and actively contact people with higher levels, can discover their own potential and the motivation to improve themselves.

03

Charlie Munger said: "The smartest people are those who can distinguish who is smarter than themselves."

Instead of becoming the leader in the small circle, it is better to work with the masters and strive to improve your level.

When the director Li An was young, he participated in a photography training course.

The training course adopts group teaching. Students need to form a group of 4 to 5 people by themselves to cooperate to complete the operation of followers.

At first, Li An and three younger students teaming.

He believes that his shooting experience is richer than these students, and it is easy to be elected as the team leader.

In this way, it can be reported on behalf of the group, impressed the teacher, and strive for more resources in the future.

However, with the advancement of training, Li An had to be responsible for most of the work as a member of the group.

When he encountered his helpless part, he could not seek guidance from the members of the group.

In the end, Li Ancao completed his homework, and the works of other groups were far better than him in various aspects such as topics, editing, and shooting methods.

Li An regrets — if you team with these better students, even if you can't be the team leader, you can learn a lot. Later, he was interviewed, and he mentioned more than once:

"Don't always think about being the smartest person, maybe you will gain some psychological advantages because of 'the smartest", but at the same time, you will lose the chance of learning and progress, and the possibility of listening to different voices. "

There is a "spotlight effect" in psychology:

If all lights focus on you, everything around you is dark.

And when you are not the most dazzling person, you can use the lights to see the surroundings, and find out the desirable things on everyone.

Those who wake up this way will not want to find a sense of superiority among a rookie.

Instead, enter an excellent circle, compare your own shortcomings, and turn the gap into the power of progress.

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Professor Zeng Shiqiang said: "Being the first to be the first in the world, because the world in your eyes is probably just the bottom of the eyes of others."

In this life, the biggest luck is to find a better person than you.

The best environment is the circle that allows you to discover your deficiencies.

Like a praise and encourage friends.

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