
Dumb Questions from Smart People [Cal Newport]
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The Very Smartest People in the World
Jackline: I'm a relatively smart and i ask for help constantly in all areas of my life. The defining factor of the very smartest people in the world is that they are constantly, constantly asking for people to slow down to explain things simply. If you don't understand something, or someone's explaining something very confidently, like, i didn't get that, nine times out of ten, it's not because you're missing something. It's because they're going away too fast, and they're just trying to look smart. So by studying the smartest people inthe world, you say what is probably the right thing to do. And it turns out to ask questions all the time,
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