There’s a big
difference between just looking stupid and actually being stupid. Lets just explore this a little bit;
Looking stupid just
means that you’ve done something that didn’t quite work out as planned - maybe
it was something you did by accident like walk into a lamppost, or maybe it’s
something you did on purpose that just backfired – we have all done it in the
past, and you can bet that we will all do it again sometime in the future – that’s
life!
But whether you did it
on purpose or by accident the end result is just the same - you know you looked
stupid and everyone around you knows that you looked stupid too!
But actually being
stupid is something completely different
The worst thing about
stupid people is that for the most part they don’t know that they are stupid
So they will embark on
things that everyone else around them can see is really stupid, but they will
still argue and tell you why it is the right thing to do. They will try and justify their own stupidity
to both you – and mainly – themselves
And the thing that
makes them really stupid? They have
either tried it before (and it didn’t work then) or they will try it again in
the future (and it wont work for them then either)
As Albert Einstein once
said ‘the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results’
It is quite easy to get
drawn into to arguments with people like this, but their stupidity can be
frustrating to watch – if you have ever watched a car crash in slow motion,
when there is nothing that you can do to prevent it from happening – the feeling
is very similar!
There’s no reasoning
with stupid people though - It’s a bit like playing chess with a pigeon (or so
I would imagine!)
They will strut around
knocking all the pieces over, mess all over the chess board and still fly back
to their mates and claim victory! (again, so I would imagine)
I see quite a lot of
stupid behaviour in some of the businesses that we visit when we are doing our
business development meetings
Managing Directors who
say that they have always marketed their business in a certain way – using marketing
materials that were designed 20 years ago for a market that existed 20 years
ago. And then they tell me that their
marketing is not successful in attracting new customers – but they cannot
understand why
This makes them look
stupid –this is fine - as I mentioned
above, we have all done things that make us look stupid, but then they very
quickly go from just looking stupid to actually being stupid, because instead
of realising that they’re not getting the results they want and doing something
about it, they will realise they’re not getting the results they want but still
carry on doing the same thing
Surely that is the
definition of insanity!
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Until the next time,
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