THE LAWS OF STUPIDITY
(h/t to a friend)
URGENT VS IMPORANT
(Eisenhower)
“I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.”
Important: an outcome that leads to us achieving our goals, whether these are professional or personal.
Urgent: achieving someone else’s goals. They are often the ones we concentrate on and they demand attention because the consequences of not dealing with them are immediate.
Therefore all Priorities can be organized into:
1 – Important and urgent
2 – Important and not urgent
3 – not important, but urgent
4 – not important, and not urgent
THE ILLUSORY COMPETENCE PROBLEM
(stupid people don’t know they’re stupid)
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias, wherein persons of low ability suffer from illusory superiority when they mistakenly assess their ability as greater than they possess. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority derives from the metacognitive inability of low-ability persons to recognize their own ineptitude, without which they cannot accurately evaluate their actual competence.
AMBITIOUS VS CAPABLE
by General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord
“I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff, [ensuring that every detail is properly considered]. Use can – under certain circumstances – be made of those who are stupid and lazy, [they do no harm.]. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.”
STUPID PEOPLE
by Carlo M. Cipolla
Law 1: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
Law 2: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
Law 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
Law 5: A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person, because a stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.
THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE
The single most determining factor of your health, wealth, and happiness, is continuously decreasing the population below 105iQ.
Source date (UTC): 2017-05-21 12:29:00 UTC