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Why People Dumber Than You Are Getting Rich

3 min readApr 14, 2025

You don’t need to get smarter. You need to move.

There’s a thought that keeps people stuck.

It’s not “I’m not good enough.”
It’s worse.

“I’m too smart to do that.”

It’s the silent arrogance of believing intelligence is the engine that drives success — when in reality, action is.

🧠 Intelligence Is Overrated. Directional Stupidity Wins.

Walk into any elite university lecture hall and you’ll find students debating theories, citing philosophers, fine-tuning their arguments like master sculptors. And many of them will graduate into jobs they hate — or never really start at all.

Meanwhile, the guy who barely passed high school?

He’s running a seven-figure business.
Or a faceless YouTube channel.
Or flipping vintage t-shirts and buying investment properties.

He’s not a genius. He’s just not paralyzed.

In the real world, imperfect action beats perfect hesitation every time.

🧩 The IQ Trap

High IQ is often a trap disguised as a gift.

Why?

Because the smarter you are, the more detailed your imagination.
You don’t just imagine failure — you imagine all 37 variations of failure and their cascading consequences.

You’re not stuck because you’re stupid.
You’re stuck because you can see too many ways it could go wrong.

So you wait. You prepare. You gather more information.
And someone “dumber” than you launches it first.

💥 Stupid Confidence Is a Superpower

There’s a specific kind of person who thrives.

They’re not the smartest.
They don’t know the most.
But they back themselves.

They don’t wait to be ready.
They move — and trust they’ll figure it out on the way down.

The irony?
That kind of confidence — the kind you think only comes after you’ve earned it —
is usually the very thing that creates the competence you’re waiting for.

🛠️ The Anti-Overthinker’s Playbook

People dumber than you are getting rich because:

  • They post the thing.
  • They launch the product.
  • They pitch the offer.
  • They try and fail faster than you even start.

They have the audacity to believe that doing something badly is better than doing nothing perfectly.

And they’re right.

🤖 The New Intelligence Isn’t IQ. It’s Movement.

In a post-GPT world, the winners aren’t those with the most knowledge.
The winners are those who leverage knowledge.

They don’t write the best code — they prompt AI.
They don’t have the best ideas — they test 10 average ones until one hits.
They don’t wait to be taught — they build, ship, and learn as they go.

This is the new game.
And the rules favor the brave, not the brainy.

🚀 You Don’t Need Another Degree. You Need Movement.

If you’ve read this far, you’re probably already “smart enough.”

But ask yourself:

  • Do you take messy action, or are you still waiting for permission?
  • Are you shipping work, or sharpening your pencils for the 40th time?

The people getting rich aren’t better than you.
They just stopped thinking so much, and started doing more.

👣 Call to Action

If this hit you square in the chest — good.
Now do something with it.

  • Post the video.
  • Launch the newsletter.
  • Apply for the job you think you’re “not qualified” for.
  • Start building that idea you’ve been quietly overengineering for 3 months.

You don’t need to be smarter. You need to move.

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Dominic Medford
Dominic Medford

Written by Dominic Medford

Law & Political Science grad exploring the space between thought and action. Writing to untangle the mental knots — for you and for me.

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