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Are Millionaires and PhDs Really Smarter? The Answer May Surprise You!
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I've had a vast array of job experiences. While in high school, I worked as maid for a local motel. While attending college, I worked as an office worker in the Sociology Department and Museum of Fine Arts. After college, I was a social worker for six years.Following a career change, I spent the next several years working as an editor and technical writer in various publishing and software companies, including Microsoft. And?whenever I had any spare time, I worked on my true passions: creative writing and art.I've worked with maids, nurses aides, office workers, people with PhDs, and millionaires. I've worked with people subsisting on welfare and those living?and dying?in nursing Homes. I've worked with software engineers, project managers, and vice presidents, as well as publishers, artists, and writers.And?in that vast array of different jobs, locations, and peoples, what have I observed?I've observed maids and nurses aides who are as sharp, witty, and insightful as famous guests on television talk shows.I've observed employees who had made millions in stock options, standing in the espresso line at Microsoft, bragging about how many coupons they had for free lattes.I've observed post-graduate students getting their PhDs, cramming hard to write their dissertations in time, sweating over passing.And, I watched in amusement, as a coworker who had recently received his PhD spent 30 minutes hanging a sign over his cubicle that read, "The Doctor Is In." Otherwise, he'd just be a plain technical writer, like the rest of us.Based on my observations from working with many types of people, millionaires and PhDs are not smarter or better than the rest of humanity. But there is one major difference: Confidence! Because of their situation, they feel much more secure about the future.So, if millionaires aren't smarter, why do they have a lot more money than most of us? A few reasons come to mind:
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