Dan Martell - December 21, 2025


Rich people aren't smart


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Length

47 seconds

Words per minute

171.57275

Word count

136

Sentence count

10

Harmful content

Toxicity

5

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Very few rich people are actually smart. They are way dumber than you think. You might be too smart for your own good, and you don t even know it. Think about every business professor in a university, they have no fucking money because they overanalyze, overjudge, overcriticize, they know too much. If you wanna be rich, there are only two things you need to have: 1) A unreasonable amount of confidence, meaning that you are confident in your beingness and your decisions are outsized to any level of accomplishment, and 2) the ability to take risks, what I call being fearless. Most wealthy people have both of those because of their ignorance. They start companies that they shouldn t have started because they didn t know how hard it would be.

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00:00:00.000 You might be too smart for your own good
00:00:01.820 and you don't even know it.
00:00:03.080 Think about every business professor in a university.
00:00:06.080 Technically, they're the smartest. 0.99
00:00:08.460 PhDs in business, they have no fucking money 0.99
00:00:10.840 because they overanalyze, they overjudge, 0.99
00:00:14.780 they overcriticize, they know too much.
00:00:17.660 If you wanna be rich,
00:00:18.320 there's only two things you need to have.
00:00:19.720 One, an unreasonable amount of confidence,
00:00:23.080 meaning that you are confident in your beingness
00:00:26.240 and your decisions outsized to any level of accomplishment
00:00:29.680 And two, the ability to take risks, what I call being fearless.
00:00:34.860 Most wealthy people have both of those because of their ignorance.
00:00:38.900 They start companies that they shouldn't have started because they didn't know how hard it would be.
00:00:43.140 Very few rich people are actually smart. 1.00
00:00:46.200 They're way dumber than you think. 1.00