Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your house Sammy and today we are going to talk about being smart.

Hey guys, how are you all doing today? Are you getting ready for the holidays? Maybe you are excited to have some time off of school and spend some extra time with friends and family,

or maybe you are a little bit anxious about spending more time with friends and family.

The holidays get me excited and they also get me anxious.

So next week, I am going to be doing a podcast on helping you all get through the holidays.

I know holidays can cause a lot of anxiety for you guys with being around people.

You are not usually around or going to other people's houses or even just like having

extra people in your house.

So we will cover some of that next week.

Today, let's talk about this word that we use a lot to describe people. And it's this word smart. And I have to laugh because

there is this little chant that my kids do all the time that they learned from my husband.

And it goes like this. I am so smart.

I am so smart.

S-M-E-R-T.

I am so smart.

Okay.

Smart is just a mindset, right?

You can just believe you are smart, even though you don't know how to spell smart, right?

Okay.

In today's world, we've gotten into this practice of looking at grades and academic achievements to measure how smart someone is in their teen years. Okay. And if someone has, let's say, the good grades, we all agree that they are smart. And then if someone has not so good grades, then it is assumed that

they are not smart, okay? Which I don't agree with this definition of the grades that you get

determine your smartness. All right. And let me tell you why for a few reasons. There are so many

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