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5 reasons why smart people fail

Jan 22, 2017

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5 REASONS WHY SMART PEOPLE FAIL

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1.Laziness2.Overconfidence3.Over Thinking in Search of Perfection4.They Always Need to be ‘Right’5.Self Sabotage

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1. LazinessNo one has climbed the mountain just by looking at it; no one has mastered a skill just by wishing it. The road to fiasco is mostly achieved by choosing the path of laziness. Laziness can be due to two reasons: because of fear and the other simply being your high motivation to do nothing. Laziness handicaps one’s ambitions. There’s a hard price of failure and rue that one pays for being lethargic.

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2. OverconfidencePeople with that overconfident mindset avoid challenge, give up early, view effort as interim, surround themselves with the “yes” men and women and rely so much on their smartness that they fail to work hard. These all qualities are incompatible with success.

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”– Bill Gates

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