The question is not “how smart are you?” meaning how high you score on exams or other societal thresholds but how are you smart? What are you good at or even excellent at? What part of your life are you genuinely good at or more effective at than anything else? This is how you are smart.
Knowing the answer to this simple question will lift you up. You are not inadequate, you are smart and excellent at something and you already know you are. Nominate your strengths and the ways in which you are smart , as Albert Einstein said, “if you keep measuring a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will always feel inadequate.” Your key to achievement and success is to know how you are smart and utilize this to leverage yourself to your goals and satisfaction. Don’t make your path harder, use your abilities to make it easier. There’s a reason your good at that thing.
[0]: Josh Boot & Yoann Boyer
