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SEVENTY-EIGHT

BOOK SMART VERSUS STREET SMART OR DUAL INTELLIGENCES

There's a viral quote on Instagram that I love,

“I got friends with degrees, LLC's, and felonies. I’ve learned from all of them.”

“I surround myself with hustlers. Whether it’s book smart, street smart, whatever. Hard work overstands hard work.”

These quotes highlight that intelligence comes in many forms, and it is true. Some of the best business advice I ever received in life was from friends who were drug dealers. Not because they were teaching me about drugs, but because they had street smarts that were learned on the streets and through hustling. People had figured out the sales game; their game may have been moving drugs, but they taught me life lessons I translated to my real estate office that made me endless cash. Funny enough, I ran my real estate office off zero payments to employees. Instead, I set up my real estate office like a drug dealer would set up their downlines. I brought people in, let them work out of my gorgeous office for free, gave them everything they needed to make money in training and materials, and then sent them out to make sales for me as I took a cut of everything they made. Pure genius. It cost them nothing to come work for me and out of my office, which attracted groups of people, and the more people I got, the more I made because I got a piece of everyone's pie every time they made a sale.

The dichotomy between book smarts and street smarts highlights the diversity of intelligence. Each type holds its unique value in navigating the world; where book smarts offer theoretical knowledge and academic prowess, street smarts provide practical wisdom and adaptability learned through real-world experience and hands-on life lessons. 

Just because you don't have book smarts or you never got a degree doesn't mean you can't take your street smarts and turn them into a multimillion-dollar business. Some of the most successful people I know never even graduated high school, but they knew how the world worked and with that knowledge, they worked the world to their benefit.

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