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This post looks at the second of four excuses people often use for their lack of success – intelligence. People worry whether they are clever enough. This article explains why some of the most successful people have been the least educated.

In his book The Magic of Thinking Big David Schwartz starts with the four main excuses people use as reasons for accepting their position in life. Once you accept these excuses they become like a disease, you begin to believe your own press and stop trying. Many people feel they lack the “intelligence” to be successful. However what many people do is confuse education with intelligence.

An educated person is different from an intelligent person. To be very educated you need to be of average intelligence only. However you can be very intelligent and have little or no education. This is because education is about learning a skill or facts and memorizing them. As long as you are of average intelligence you can learn most skills, provided you decide to and stick at it and become an expert.

Intelligence is about the ability to think creatively and see a solution to a problem. In fact some people say very clever people see problems other people fail to see and they see the solution. So what you need to concentrate on is your ability to identify a problem your customer has and give them a solution.

Henry Ford the famous American entrepreneur was proud of the fact that he was uneducated. When a paper ran a story saying he was stupid he sued them. They asked him lots of questions that High School children would know about history etc. He refused to answer them saying simply he did not need to know because he could find someone who could tell him.

As a reader of this Blog I assume you are interested in self employment work from home opportunities and you may think you lack the education to start one. Well here are some other ways you should look at that very question:

• Never underestimate your own intelligence and never overestimate the intelligence of others. What counts is how you use your intelligence.
• Tell yourself several time each day your attitude is more important than your intelligence
• Remember the ability to think is far more important than the ability to memorize facts – you can always refer to materials to find things out there is no need to stuff your head with them

So do you still think you intelligence may stop you being a success in self employment work from home?

Andrew Peel

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