Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

AVOID THE INTELLIGENCE TRAP
The most successful people today are those who are continually in-
vesting in learning and expanding their intellectual asset base. They
are wide open to new ideas and new approaches. A major mistake
made by many people, especially those who have graduated from a
university, is that they conclude that everything they know at the
moment is all that there is to know about a particular subject.
Think Like a Genius
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Sometimes they think that what they know is all they 
need
to know
about a subject as well.
This is called the “intelligence trap” of the poor performer, the
unconscious incompetent
. This is a person who does not know, and
does not know that he does not know. This person cannot be
helped, because he is closed to new information. This is why the be-
ginning of all wisdom is often the awareness of how ignorant you re-
ally are, of how little you really know.
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