Too Much Intelligency always Spoils the Work

Although it looks odd at the first thought, but it is hard fact that too intelligent people can’t work so well. Why it is so? Why so much intelligent people are not so successful. We always see that people so smart and intelligent are not so successful and works at junior level and there not so smart bosses govern them.

In business it is of much more importance. To be successful in business and in life you must always have a little stupidity. There is a famous proverb of english: Too many cooks spoils the both. Why too many cooks spoils the both?

It is very much apparent that too many cooks have too many ideas and have too many action plans. For success one solid plan should be there and man should work on it without fumbling. What happens with a too much intelligent person?  He don’t need so many persons to spoil the cake. He alone is sufficient to spoil the cake as he is having so many ideas.

Intelligent is a person who takes a work in hand and thinks on it and completes it first and then starts another, rather thinks of another. If an idea comes to our mind we must analyse it and either approves it or discard it. Generally all the successful men do like this. But over intelligent men always have their bag full of ideas. They never discard any and nor approve any. They are always in between the ideas and a situation of decisioning never comes. When no decision no working. If at all they start working on any of their idea soon they discard that and start working on another. They never act fullyon any idea till the last and leaves it inbetween.

In service they are successful to some extent as there are so many persons to implement the plan. There are so many persons; some juniors and some seniors and he is never totally freeto act and decide. They have to consult their seniors before changing the decision, and that is not easy. Moreover they have not to do all the impletation part himself.

There are so many works and problems and their minds are busy in solving that different problems and not have much time to rethink on the issue again and change it. When they have a time to a second thought the work is completed or nearly complete.

Once a very famous businessman of U.S.A. said regarding this and this became a proverb.

Think, Think and Think: then Decide: then act Foolishly.

It is so right and practised by almost all of the successful businessmen. When you are going to start a job or new venture give it a proper time to think. Proper time means time sufficient for all the ideas to come and calculate. Analysis of all the ideas is part of thinking. He has stressed on thinking  and the word came three times in the line.

Why three times to think? What generally people do; at the time of thinking and analysing they take decision on the first or second thought, which also depends on their previous beliefs and takes the decision immidiately. They want to prove that they are so much intelligent to others and to themselves also. But very hard luck that they never succeed in that. They are never so much confident of themselves and about their intelligence what to say of others.

For this reason also they take the decision in a hurry and in a moment, but soon after the decision is taken they start repenting it and becomes impatient to change it. They are more vigorous to change it than they were when they decided.

Actually due to overintelligence their mind is more fast and they take the decision when they have to think and starts thinking again after decision or starting action. Either they are never able to take a decision or to stick to it till the last. It is the place where he said act foolishly that is once you decided stop thinking and act foolishly.

What is act foolishly? Act foolishly means stick to the decision what you have taken earlier whether it seems foolish to you or intelligent now.

Thinking again on the decision can only make you doubleminded or shift your attention and interest from it.

There is a saying in Hindi: “Do navo ka sawar majhdhar mein girta hai.” It never means that persons working two works will fail as we were always taught or atleast I was alwayws thinking in my childhood and was taught like that also.

 It is very clear to me now that a person doubleminded or having controversial views always fails. Controversial veiws always create indecisioning.

So always do right work at the right time.think at time of thinking and act at the time of doing.