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Hello, hello, hello, hello.

It's Rob Schuter from the Naughty but Nice Podcast.

It's a special edition of our podcast, our weekend edition.

So we've been doing these special editions.

You know me as a gossip columnist and entertainment reporter.

However, as well as doing all that, I'm also a

best-selling author. I'm one of the world's experts in motivation, changing your life. My book is

called The Forward Answer, and what we've been doing is these short podcasts on the weekend and they're doing

so well. So thank you. Thank you so much for that. I started doing them at the top of the year as something

new to do, a little bonus on the weekends. And I thought I might do one a month. However, the response

has been overwhelming. Don't tell anybody, but more people are listening

to our bonus, our special podcast than even listen to our entertainment gossip shows. So I'm going to keep

doing these as long as you keep listening. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Today we're going to

talk about something really important. It's going to blow your mind, maybe even change your life. This is why

you don't feel smart. The most foolish thing I ever did was spend too much time believing

that being really smart was a personality trait, a magic quality

that you're either lucky enough to be born with or not.

In my case, I feared not.

I totally bought into the theory that being smart was a God-given gift, something in your

DNA, something that nature had decided long before we had any say in the matter. This was

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