do you really need to be smart to be sucessful??

Answer 1

come on, look at our president...........

Answer 2

Common sense and street smart, means have a lot of experience in that field. If no experience go get it. Keep your eyes and ears open, to learn everything about the company and people. Impress the boss(s), by doing assignments as soon as possible after their request or questions. Have integrity, don't pretend to know everything. Stay away from the gossip, and take courses in similar field. And, and, most important" business is business, and social events is still business", beware. If your in sales, remember, the successful salesperson will realize soon enough on selling, "The best seller is selling a product that sells", common sense.

Answer 3

It depends on how you define success. If sucess means money and power, then no, you don't have to be smart. But you must have the right connections and know how to make good decisions.

Answer 4

It really depends on your definition of successful. It also depends on your definition of intelligence. A modern theory of intelligence poses at least six different kinds including logical reasoning, the ability to use your body, spacial skills, etc.

Some dancers who are very successful in thier craft would not make good computer programmers, and vice versa. Certainly, the ability to reason well will help anybody, but being a potential mathematician isn't necessary to be an excelent runner or martial artist.

So, if you want to run a business writing software, you need one sort of intelligence. If you wish to be a poet, or a dancer, or a race car driver, you need the capacities appropriate to the specific skills.

In my mind, being successful is recoginzing your specific skills and interests, and finding a way to use them to the best of your ability. You man not necessarily become the wealthiest of all, but you will at least be happy, and that's my idea of success.

Answer 5

There are many ways to achieve success and one of them is for the dumb ones - using diplomacy, influence, flattery of the ones in powerful positions, putting competitors down by lowly means in the competitions, sleeping with the boss and even his boss if required and that too as many times as they want to etc. etc.

To illustrate my opinion let me tell you this :
I know a dumb lady who rose from a data-entry operator to become a director of a good size company simply by sleeping with one of the owner/directors.

However there certainly is another way for the sincere ones :
Being smart and intelligent as well as diligent in working !

So yes and no.

You don't really always have to be smart to be successful.

However if you are sincere and hardworking and love honesty then better START WORKING SMART AND HARD without waiting for "someone" to give you a lift or by trying to win favors by other means than your work and professionalism !

Answer 6

Yes and no! There are a lot of sales people that are people smart, but not book smart. There are different types of intelligence I feel. You can have someone like Einstein who is a genius but have absolutely no skills otherwise. You can't measure someone's success based on his/her intelligence! Some of us just know how to talk to people and convincing someone to believe you or purchase a product from you, is certainly a smart skill.

Answer 7

I think you have to be smart in the sense that you should know the difference between right and wrong, and you should keep your eyes open at all times. So basically, I think you need street smart to be successful in life.

Answer 8

My brother did OK in high school maybe average, and he started to work for a garage door business, he was there for about 3 years and figured out how to do it on his own, just like most people who end up in his place, any how now he runs a very successfully garage door warehouse, I believe he's the second biggest in Michigan. Does commercial work and residential work, but you have to crawl before you can walk, all the luck to you. You can do it.

Answer 9

No, bookworms only make good employees. To be sucessful in a sense that you own a company, you have to have a vision and passion.

Answer 10

First, I will assume you define success as career success. (But many people define success as achieving other important goals, like traveling the world or raising a happy healthy family, etc.)

Ultimately, if you clearly define what you want to accomplish (ie.g., become a lawyer, own your own business, whatever), and you put in the effort - and you will have to put in A LOT - hard work driven by keen desire will overcome any lack of pure intelligence.

Answer 11

first of all... everyone who isn't mentally chalanged is smart... the only thing is that some people apply their brains more than others... if you're not book smart then you're street smart... and eathor one of those is good enough to get you anywhere you want to go... anyone can be successful if they want, its just the matter of finding what they are best at and why types of smarts they have...