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Looking Stupid vs. Being Stupid
I created the Stupid Matrix with the Ansoff Product-Growth Matrix and the BCG Growth-share Matrix in mind. If your familiar with marketing concepts you've heard of these. I truly believe every person will fall into every category sometime in there life. Now being stupid doesn't mean you actually are stupid. You can be the smartest person in the world, be a great person but if you lose your cool and try to fight a waiter in the middle of a restaurant, causing a scene...you are an IDIOT. You have acted stupid and now you are looking stupid. (IDIOTS include people who commit stupid crimes (maybe any crime), people who you laugh at for getting hurt in YouTube clips, people who don't work hard but blame others for their failures.) IDIOTS are everywhere. The opposite of idiots might be you. You may have a great job that you love and every day you go to work and do great things for your employer. You are not being stupid or looking stupid so you are GIFTED. (GIFTED people include people who rise to the top through hard work, repeated failures, and doing what they love. However, you turn into the guy causing a scene doing something stupid and you look stupid. You know what you are.) Next lets say you are becoming a doctor because your parents were doctors, but all your life you wanted to be a gym teacher. You work hard but you're not happy with what your doing. You are being stupid but i'm sure you don't look stupid in the eyes of others. You are a CONFORMIST. (CONFORMISTS include people who do something they hate but may be achieving success, people who do something they know is wrong but are afraid to stand up for what is right, and people who coast through life living off others success before they reach a point where they realize they've been doing things the wrong way.) Finally, look at someone like Jack London (the guy who wrote "The Call of the Wild"). He recieved 600 rejection slips before he sold his first story. Now I don't know much more about him as a person but I can imagine how his life was going. He REALLY wanted to be writer and thought he could write. Six hundred people told him he couldn't. I'm thinking around rejection number 200 he looked pretty damn stupid. His parents may have said "Son, you've given it your best shot now go work in that factory." Well, I don't know what he did but he apparently tried 400 more times. He was being an EXPERIMENTER. (EXPERIMENTERS include people who know they can do what they love but have not yet achieved success, people who stand up for what is right in the face of adversity or opposition, and people who use unconventional methods to try to reach success.) And why isn't this considered being stupid? He was RIGHT in thinking he could WRITE. So eventually by the time he wrote "White Fang" everyone though he was a great writer and saw him as GIFTED.
The idea behind this is not to look at people and automatically categorize them but look at what they do. Every action that someone does can fall under one of these categories. In my life I feel I have fallen into every category more than one time. Take a minute to think about your life goals and think about the way you try to accomplish them.
This is the STUPIDITY MATRIX: WHERE DO YOU FALL?
Joke of the Day-A pirate was talking to a "land-lubber" in a bar. The land-lubber noticed that, like any self-respecting pirate, this guy had a peg leg, a hook in place of one of his hands, and a patch over one eye. The land-lubber just had to find out how the pirate got in such bad shape. He asked the pirate, "How did you lose your leg?"
The pirate responded, "I lost me leg in a battle off the coast of Jamaica!" His new acquaintance was still curious so he asked, "What about you hand. Did you lose it at the same time?"
"No," answered the pirate. "I lost it to the sharks off the Florida Keys." Finally, the land-lubber asked, "I notice you also have an eye patch. How did you lose your eye?"
The pirate answered, "I was sleeping on a beach when a seagull flew over and crapped right in me eye." The land-lubber asked: "How could a little seagull crap make you loose your eye?"
The pirate snapped, "It was the day after I got me hook!"
Movie Quote of the Day- Lieutenant Jim Dangle: This is the stupidest group of people I've ever worked with who are not legally retarded. (Reno 911!: Miami)
Sports Picks- Saints over Falcons, Yankees over Phillies, Nets over Bobcats, Hornets over Knicks
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This is quite clever, I like how you urge people to take action and do what they love rather than conforming to what society deems successful for you and me.
ReplyDeleteSuccess is largely dependent on the individual's personal definition, don't you think?
I like where you're going with this, and I think it was bold and brash enough to move people to rethink their goals and how they are living their lives.