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Why Smart People Are Stupid

DarrenDaily On-Demand

Darren Hardy LLC

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

A minister, a boy scout, and a computer executive were flying to a meeting in a small private plane. Sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that is the beginning of a life lesson Darren shares in this episode.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Daring Daily On Demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better

0:06.3

every day.

0:07.3

Here's your success mentor, Daring Hardy.

0:10.8

A minister, a boy scout, and a computer executive were flying to a meeting in a small

0:18.6

private plane.

0:19.6

About halfway to their destination, the pilot came back and announced that the plane was

0:23.4

going to crash, and that there were only three parachutes, but there were four people.

0:28.4

The pilot said, I'm going to use one of the parachutes because I have a wife and four

0:31.4

small children, and then he jumped.

0:33.7

The computer executive said, I should have one of the parachutes because I am the smartest

0:37.1

man in the world, and my company needs me, and then he jumped.

0:41.0

The minister turned to the boy scout, and smiled, sadly, and said, you are young, and

0:45.9

I have lived a good long life, so you take the last parachute, and I will go down with

0:50.1

the plane.

0:51.1

The boy scout said, relax, Reverend, the smartest man in the world just strapped on my backpack

0:55.2

and jumped out of the plane.

0:57.3

Aristotle taught us long ago that there are four types of people.

1:01.2

He described them like this, number one, he who knows not, and knows not that he knows

1:06.8

not.

1:07.8

He is a fool, or he is under 30.

1:10.2

He is dangerous and probably best not to listen to.

1:14.1

On this note, by the way, I will add what Louis Armstrong said.

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