From The Desk of Maverick Brenton.
Subject: The Value of Street Smarts.
The problem I’m about to discuss begins when we are children.
We are conditioned in school to see failure as a bad thing.
As a measure of our intelligence and our ability to succeed in life.
As a yardstick of our worth, our potential and what we are capable of.
How is our intelligence measured in school?
By sitting exams that contain useless bullshit.
Bullshit which is completely irrelevant to life in the real world.
Our intelligence as children and young adults, is measured by our ability to memorise useless bullshit, then spew it back onto an exam paper.
This is why school is a one enormous joke.
If you disagree with that, go fuck yourself.
It is plain obvious, even to an idiot, that everything you learn there is useless.
But we all pretend that isn’t so, because normal people just love to pretend, pretend and pretend.
They don’t like being real.
Well guess what?
I’m real.
That’s my deal.
I speak the truth - _for the truth is all there is.
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Normal people don’t like hearing the truth because it hurts their normal feelings.
That’s why normal people get nothing but what they’re given_._
When we fail these useless exams, we feel terrible about ourselves.
We think the kids who pass are smarter than us.
We think we are dumb.
Here’s a reality check. Here’s a little bit of truth for you.
Here’s how it is:
The kids who fail the exams and don’t do well in school are more likely to succeed in life than the kids who do well in school.
Why?
Common sense could tell you but most people have none of that so I will tell you instead.
The type of intelligence it takes to succeed in life is not the same as the type of intelligence that it takes to get you high marks in school.
They are the complete opposite.
One type, the most important type, involves connecting the dots, thinking critically, learning to work through problems, being creative and finding solutions.
It’s common sense.
It’s emotional intelligence - it’s knowing yourself.
It’s being able to put the pieces of the puzzle together and understand life.
This form of intelligence is only developed through gaining Life Experience in the real world and getting to know yourself through that life experience.
The other type is the type of intelligence that Becky has.
Becky always get’s an A + in history and is unbelievably gifted at memorising bullshit - but in the real world, she is as useful as a knitted condom.
There is a big difference between these two types of thinking.
A very big difference.
People who lack the first type of intelligence and only have the second type of intelligence, suffer from a condition known as being useless.
Those who become massively successful in life are ambitious rebels and independent thinkers that have common sense and are not afraid to walk their own path.
When I was younger, I tried to explain this to people but I was missing the one thing that makes dumb people shut the fuck up and listen - money.
Unless you have what idiots want, idiots won’t listen to you.
Once I learnt this, it made my life a lot easier because I stopped trying to share everything I was learning - I kept my mouth shut and said nothing instead.
Most people are as ignorant as a bucket of dried dogshit.
You could sit the answers to all their questions right in front of them, yet they would not see those answers because they are too busy checking Facebook.
They don’t want to listen.
They don’t want to learn anything new.
They don’t care about what you have to say unless you have what they want.
So unless you have money, don’t bother trying to tell people anything because they won’t listen.
Shut your mouth and create results instead.
Super successful people almost never do well in school.
Their education was in real life - which is how they figured out, how to do what they did.
I’ve met and studied plenty of them - that was my education.
I got tired of learning bullshit so I dropped out and found successful people to learn from instead.
You know what I learnt?
The story behind them almost always has the same pattern.
They either dropped out, failed or never even went to school in the first place.
If you live in Australia, like myself - here is a fun little fact.
Most of the wealthiest people in this country started from nothing and most of them either dropped out of school or never went.
How do I know this?
Figuring out how they did it has been my obsession since I could walk.
Would you like to know what I’ve learnt?
It’s all common sense.
They are not special.
They simply have common sense and they have failed their way to success.
For almost all of them, failure is what made them successful.
Failure taught them the lessons they needed to learn and failure forged them into who they are today.
The types of people who achieve massive success understand one very important thing about being successful which is summed up brilliantly in the words of Winston Churchill:
That is the key to success.
I will also make one thing clear.
The success I am talking about is not doctor or lawyer success.
That is conventional success and those people are, often, only smart within their field of expertise – not in life.
The success I am talking about is the creation of world class empires.
Being able to pay cash for homes that cost millions and thinking nothing of it.
Having banks come to you, asking to borrow money.
That is what I’m talking about.
This all sounds just fucking dandy doesn’t it?
Who wouldn’t want that level of success?
There is something else you need to understand though.
Something that is even more important.
You DO NOT need to be like them, to have a successful life.
YOU must define your success - you must articulate what you actually want from your life.
It’s probably much simpler than you think, but don’t aim low out of fear nor think small because of doubt, set your sights high anyway.
Just make sure you’re aiming at what YOU want, not what someone else wants for you.
Your success is not _their success.
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Don’t just look at them and decide you want what they have.
THINK for yourself!
You want their result - you don’t want their process.
Trust me.
If you saw behind the curtain, if you saw what went into making them - you would change your mind very quickly, unless you are the real deal.
For they don’t just end up like they are - they are forged in fire and pain.
Believe me, what they have achieved did not come without a cost.
Being the tip of the spear, being the elite of the elite - it’s not free my friend.
You’re in love with the image.
_Not the reality.
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You would be frightened to death if you saw the process that’s behind the results they have.
Unless, you have their blood running through your veins.
Unless, you are one of them.
If their blood runs in your veins and you are one of them, you’ll know it, trust me.
Nothing in life comes without a cost.
You must define success for yourself.
Do not define your success off someone else’s success.
I’m not saying there is anything wrong with wanting to be the best of the best.
If it’s in your blood, you won’t be happy until you’re among their ranks.
That’s perfectly fine, for ambition is an admirable quality and destiny calls to every man in her own unique way.
I’m just telling you, there is always a cost - something will need to be sacrificed.
You cannot get everything all at once, but you can have everything all at once, eventually, if you do the work and you play your cards right - if you are willing to make the sacrifices required.
With money, big money - comes everything you need to do, to protect that money, because people will try to take it from you.
That’s a fucking promise.
Friends.
Family.
People you thought you could trust.
Having a buck changes shit, big time.
Therefore the ideal amount, in my mind, is enough to live a good life.
Yet still, that’s just my perspective - that’s my definition.
You must think for yourself.
You must decide what you want.
I will state though, success should NEVER be defined by money because money is nothing more than a means to an end.
If you take that path and you make money your goal, chances are you will eventually regret it and you will end up empty.
Getting back to my point…
Smart people know, failure in the real world is not a measure of their intelligence.
It is a gift that holds the best lessons you will ever learn.
It is direct feedback that what you are doing needs adjusting.
While not the wisest, failure is the best way to learn, because it hurts and it leaves it’s mark.
It makes you better. It makes you smarter.
The wisest way, is to learn from the mistakes of others.
This is what we should be taught in school.
When young, you should embrace failure because it will increase your chances of success later in life.
Your 20’s are the perfect time to try everything and fall flat on your face over and over again.
Your 20’s are the perfect platform for failure and learning.
Do this and you will end up smarter than the majority of people when you are older.
While everyone else is playing it safe and settling down into comfortable lives chosen for them and not by them, you will be slamming face first into the dirt.
This is what will prepare you for real success.
This is what will make you better.
How do I know this?
I live it.
I’ve eaten more shit than a starving dog and no matter how bad it tasted, it’s made me better every single time.
It’s made me smarter.
It’s given me another notch in my belt.
You will also learn another valuable lesson from continuously screwing up.
It is not that bad.
Especially when you are young, which is because of one simple reason.
You have nothing to lose when you are young and broke.
You have much more to lose when you have a mortgage, kids and a family to take care of.
When you are young, you have the time and energy to try again.
You can fall down one day and be back up, trying again, the next day, with a smile on your face.
So use your youth to fail, learn and evolve into a smarter and wiser person.
It will serve you very well when you are older.
Failure is part of the process and that is just the way it is.
Those who are afraid to try and afraid to fail - they will get nothing because destiny does not reward those who don’t deserve her hand.
Succeeding without failing is not a blessing, it is a curse.
Failure builds character and makes you appreciate success more.
So, seek failure and embrace the pain that comes from it.
Within it, are the best lessons life has to offer.
Until Next Time.
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