Surely everyone has heard the expression: “If you are so smart, why are you so poor?". To make money, a certain level of intelligence is required. But even very smart people can remain poor. I’ll tell you why and tell you what to do to earn more.

Examine your settings

Here is the answer to the question “Why are you so smart but poor?”

Because in childhood, smart parents with two higher educations or even an academic degree instilled: “Money doesn’t buy happiness.” Or: “The most important thing in life is spiritual wealth, not material wealth.” Or even worse: “You need to be modest.”

A person grows up smart and also with an academic degree. But he has a boring job, he doesn't even try to break out of the routine and make money from his intelligence.

The first thing you need to do on the path to wealth is to carefully examine your attitudes. Perhaps the excellent student syndrome or an impostor syndrome is bothering you. They are typical for smart and talented people. Dumb and mediocre people are unable to realize their imperfections. This plays into their hands: they don’t think, but act. And they succeed! Although, perhaps worse than a smart person would do.

Spoiler: perfection does not exist!

Change internal dialogue

An educated person realizes how difficult, for example, Arabic is. This is an ancient language, with a huge history of several thousand years.

How to learn it? Once again the “dumb” one wins. He doesn’t know that the Arabic language is monstrously complex, but he just takes actions and learns it. He speaks with mistakes, but he still learns it.

You need to remove fear and pessimism from your internal dialogue. No more of the “I’ll never be able to…” or “I’ll never be able to...”

We change it to: “What should I do to learn Arabic.” (Or make a million)

Create a plan

Something can only be achieved through specific actions. Take a piece of paper and write down your income and expenses. Look at what expenses are clearly unnecessary and see if this money can be used in a more useful direction. For example, for self-education in order to later reach a new level of income.

The more specific your plan is, the higher the chance that everything will work out.

Learn to negotiate

Sometimes negotiations are understood as primitive: “Teach me scripts to sell phones to clients.” But negotiations are all around us. We constantly communicate with people, agree on something. The ability to negotiate will help you achieve a higher salary when talking with your boss, reaching an agreement with your husband or wife, or asking for help with a business project.

The ability to negotiate is one of the important steps to wealth. Because all the money comes from people.

Find a supportive environment

If people around you don’t believe in you, it will be very difficult to become richer. Try to communicate with those who motivate and inspire. Let these be people with great material wealth. Or more intelligent and educated. Constantly look closely and learn from them, adopting their skills.

Rejoice at success

Someone earns a million in a week, but these are unique cases. Therefore, we must rejoice at the gradual progress. Celebrate every success, reward and congratulate yourself. Don’t stop there, but don’t blame yourself if everything doesn’t work out at once. Then you will be able to enjoy not only the result - a specific amount in your bank account, but also the very process of rising to this peak.