Your problem is you're too smart.
And in this video I'm going to share with you is six signs that
you are smarter than your coworkers.
The first sign is that you are not an early bird.
Now, in my video a couple weeks ago, I talked about how being a part of the
5am Club isn't all that it cracked up to be. And actually, we have research
on our side, there was a study that actually suggests that those who wake
up a little bit later might have higher intelligence. The study findings
suggest that the more intelligent individuals may be more likely to acquire
an espouse evolutionary novel values, and preferences and less intelligent
individuals, while general intelligence may have no effect on the
acquisition and disposal of evolutionary familiar values and preferences.
And just a side note here, what type of intelligence we're talking about is
going to be somewhat subjective, but that will be a whole separate rant, so
you have an excuse to sleep in your welcome. The next sign that you are
smarter than most of the people that you work with is that you don't think
you're smart people who don't know anything think they know a lot. This is
called the Dunning Kruger effect. And this explains so much in the
workplace. What the Dunning Kruger effect suggests is that when we know a
little bit about something, we have very high confidence, we think that we
know it all. But then the more that we learn, the more that we realize we
don't know all of the things and our confidence in the area starts to wane,
don't worry and eventually picks back up. In fact, this is probably been
you before, think about it, you're learning Excel and you finally master
the vlookup you feel like an Excel guru, you put highly proficient onto
your resume and lo que gloat about what an Excel was you are until you're
asked to write an if and or formula, then you're like, WTF, you begin to
realize all of the formulas and all of the things that you don't know. And
you start to feel like a big Excel moron. The point is, the smarter you
are, the dumber you feel that as you start to learn more formulas, your
confidence starts coming back, which leads me to the next sign that you are
smarter than most of your coworkers. And that's you have a lot of
questions. Um, I have a double question. The funny thing is that the
questions that people ask are rarely done. Instead, they almost are always
a signal about how much you actually understand what's going on back in my
software training days, I would periodically ask if anyone had questions.
And the way that I knew that I completely missed my mark, and everyone was
over their heads was that there would be no questions because as soon as
that feature or function was really understood, oh, there were questions.
How does this fit into our process? What happens if I skip this step? Will
I blow up the internet? If I click this button, this of course applies in
general to for example, let's say that your company rolls out a fancy new
product, they explain what it does and the benefits if you have service
level knowledge. And maybe that's all you need, you're probably not going
to have any questions. But when you deeply understand you're going to have
a ton the questions that you ask are going to help you see the bigger
picture or understand the details in more detail. And it's even possible
that the questions that you ask stem from this neck sign that you are
smarter than most people, you are curious, A F Now there was another really
interesting study that pointed to curiosity as a sign of intelligence. And
it has two major benefits. First, curiosity actually makes you more
tolerant of ambiguity, which is convenient because we've been living in
unprecedented times for two and a half years. Now. For real though this is
going to serve you very well across your career, whether you're in a fast
growth environment, like a startup going through a big career changes,
leadership changes, and even navigating big industry and economic changes.
The other massive benefit to curiosity is that curious people are more
proactive in their knowledge acquisition, self learning is kind of your
thing. And that's probably why you're here watching this video right now,
people with above average intelligence are lifelong learners. You probably
also read books like my new book that's coming out this just over here, my
background. And yes, I am shamelessly promoting it in addition to taking
courses, listening to podcasts, attending conferences, etc. And the thing I
actually love most about this sign is that this treat is also one that is
going to help you so much across your life. Your ongoing personal
development and your ongoing professional development are going to
differentiate you coupled with your knack for asking the right questions
and fully analyzing a situation you are going to bring forward really
innovative solutions to problems that exist which actually leads me to the
next sign that you are smarter than most of your co workers you are highly
self aware. This one is from my personal observation. Across my career.
Whenever I've met someone who is highly ambitious, highly intelligent and
highly successful, they have one thing in common, they are extremely self
aware. They know exactly where their potential is. They know exactly what
impact that they can make. They know what their limitations are and the
role they play in the big picture as
well. And I want you to have high self awareness which is why you can
download my UAQ starter kit for free right now. It's going to help you
identify where you are truly exceptional at work so that you can accelerate
your career now there is one more sign and this is a think the most crucial
one to career success, but also a demonstrator of multiple types of
intelligence. The sixth sign that you are smarter than most is you know how
to navigate office politics. So often intelligence is thought of in the
analytical perspective, like the formal IQ test perspective. However,
emotional intelligence and social intelligence are also extraordinarily
important and navigating corporate politics requires all three in fairness,
corporate politics can be very challenging to learn how to navigate even
for the smartest people. Don't worry, I've made it extremely simple. Go and
watch this video right now to increase your knowledge on how to navigate
office politics.