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A few years ago I used to have a dope apartment in the UK on a well known street nearby John Lewis, a popular department store.
Almost every day I& #39;d walk past this store to go for breakfast, and I& #39;d see a guy sitting outside selling wishes for £1 a go.
One day I asked him...
Almost every day I& #39;d walk past this store to go for breakfast, and I& #39;d see a guy sitting outside selling wishes for £1 a go.
One day I asked him...
"Why don& #39;t you charge £5 instead of £1? The increased price would more than make up for the loss in sales and you could downsell the & #39;No& #39;s for £1 instead."
He thought this was pretty smart, so I gave him 5 minutes of my time and we got talking...
He thought this was pretty smart, so I gave him 5 minutes of my time and we got talking...
Turned out he was a PhD. Physicist who used to work at CERN. Research funding dried up & no new projects hired him... kept trying to get funding instead of adapt.
1 year later he& #39;s behind the times & out of the loop...
2 years later, wife left him, lost his house, homeless...
1 year later he& #39;s behind the times & out of the loop...
2 years later, wife left him, lost his house, homeless...
Research projects wouldn& #39;t hire him because he hadn& #39;t published a paper in years & had become irrelevant.
Refused to get something like a mcdonalds job as he was & #39;over qualified& #39;
Genius level IQ, reduced to selling & #39;wishes& #39; by the side of the road, because he wouldn& #39;t adapt.
Refused to get something like a mcdonalds job as he was & #39;over qualified& #39;
Genius level IQ, reduced to selling & #39;wishes& #39; by the side of the road, because he wouldn& #39;t adapt.
During this conversation, I asked him "How come I always see you on the way to breakfast, but when I come back you& #39;re always gone? Do you move spots."
"No," he revealed. "I just stay here until I have enough money for today then I stop."
Absolute madness.
"No," he revealed. "I just stay here until I have enough money for today then I stop."
Absolute madness.
At the end of the day when it came to saving his career, saving his marriage & saving his house.
His IQ meant nothing.
His PhD & credentials meant nothing.
His passion for science meant nothing.
The only thing that mattered was his work ethic, which was sorely lacking.
His IQ meant nothing.
His PhD & credentials meant nothing.
His passion for science meant nothing.
The only thing that mattered was his work ethic, which was sorely lacking.
After that I stopped seeing him so regularly.
One day I bumped into him, turned out he took my advice to charge £5 and didn& #39;t & #39;need& #39; to stay as long.
This dude actually chose to beg less, instead of make more so he could stop being homeless!
I just shook my head and left.
One day I bumped into him, turned out he took my advice to charge £5 and didn& #39;t & #39;need& #39; to stay as long.
This dude actually chose to beg less, instead of make more so he could stop being homeless!
I just shook my head and left.
It used to say in my bio that I have a genius level IQ (99.9th percentile Stanford-Binet 5) but I removed it because it basically has no correlation to results.
Action & work ethic matter more than IQ.
Plenty of high IQ people are broke because they did nothing with it.
Action & work ethic matter more than IQ.
Plenty of high IQ people are broke because they did nothing with it.
