This is going to either piss you off or make you confused. Maybe a little of both. But here's what you need to understand:
There are people dumber than you who are becoming millionaires.
And I don't say this from some abstract place. I was you. I thought I was really smart. But my bank account had no money in it. As soon as I understood why people dumber than me were getting richer than me - and as soon as I dropped my ego - everything changed.
The Vermont Guy
Before I had money, I used to watch this guy on YouTube. And I'm going to be honest - he was dumber than a box of rocks. I mean that in the most respectful way possible.
He had a presentation on how to become rich. It had 17 spelling errors. The colors were off. It was ugly. And then at the end, he logged into his bank account on camera.
$3 million.
He refreshed the page just to prove it was real. $3 million. This guy thought Vermont was a country. And he had three million dollars in the bank.
That broke my brain. I had to re-evaluate everything I thought about money and success. I wanted to throw labels on this person - he got lucky, he's a trust fund kid, right time right place. But the reality was simpler than that:
He wasn't book smart. He was financially smart. He understood the principles of why people become successful, and he emulated that success.
Lamborghini Aventador. Traveling the world. Making tons of money. And this guy couldn't spell "definitely" if his life depended on it.
The Formula I Discovered
After I set my ego aside, I studied everything this guy did. I bought his programs. I broke down his content. And I derived a formula:
Attention + Storytelling + Offer = Money.
That's it. He captured attention on the internet through storytelling - just his personal experience - and put something in front of that audience. Millions of dollars. From Google Slides, a camera, a microphone, and a computer.
So what did I do? The exact same thing. I reverse-engineered how he made money. I learned what captured attention, what made people consume content, and how to monetize it.
And money started to flow. People started wanting to pay me for my information. I became a magnet for it. Not because I got smarter. Because I stopped trying to be smart and started trying to be effective.
Why School Made You Middle Class
Think about it. You spent 12+ years learning from people who make $60,000-$80,000 a year. That's what they made. That's what they knew.
If you learn from someone making $60K for 12 years, you're going to be about as successful as they are. Maybe a little better. But you're not going to become wealthy.
Even $200K or $300K a year - that's middle class. That's not wealth. I'm talking about the kind of money where you can spend as much as you want and still have plenty left over.
The Vermont guy was making $300,000 a month. Doctor salaries in a month. With Google Slides.
Speed Is Power
Here's what I realized about "dumb" people who succeed: they don't overthink. They have an idea, they execute immediately.
The gap between idea and execution - that's everything. The closer those two things are, the more powerful you become.
Power is having an idea and it manifesting in front of you as you speak. Not weeks. Not months. Not years. Now.
Look at Dubai. Thirty years ago it was rubble. Now it's one of the most beautiful cities on earth. Big ideas, fast execution. That's power.
The spelling errors don't matter. The ugly presentation doesn't matter. What matters is one singular thing: the idea and the execution of the idea.
Case Studies That Prove It
When the submarine incident happened - the one with the billionaires - anyone who made a YouTube video about it early made $50,000-$100,000. Immediately. The content didn't even have to be good. There was massive attention and not enough supply.
The Johnny Depp trial? I know people who made $200,000-$300,000 in a single month just making videos about it.
My own students have done this over and over. Right time, right place, fast execution. They didn't wait for permission. They didn't wait for the perfect video. They just hit record.
The Real Reason "Dumb" People Get Rich
People with lower IQs don't overthink. They see an opportunity, they execute. They don't worry about spelling errors or perfect color palettes or whether their presentation looks professional enough.
They just do the thing.
And while you're planning your fifth revision, they're depositing their fifth check.
This isn't a cop-out. You don't get to say "well I'm too smart to be rich" and feel good about it. That's the dumbest thing you could possibly think.
How I Applied This
I went from having no money and blaming politicians and the economy to generating hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. Supercars. Travel. Freedom.
All because I decided to stop being the "smart person with the computer science degree who knows everything" and instead had the humility to study people who were where I wanted to be.
I turned off my brain from people who weren't rich. I stopped studying them. And I started studying - and emulating - the people who had what I wanted.
Everything clicked. Everything unlocked.
The Question I'll Leave You With
If you're so smart:
- Why don't you have more money in your bank?
- Why do you have to ask for time off at your job?
- Why do you have to show up to the office even when you don't want to?
Intelligence isn't the bottleneck. Action is.
Find people who've done what you want. Study them. Emulate them. Execute fast. Stop worrying about being perfect.
The dumb people already figured this out. When are you going to?
