Random TV Wisdom

The other night I was flipping through Netflix looking for something to watch, and I came across “Lost.”

If you’ve never seen it, it’s about a group of people stuck in an island after a plane crash, but the island has got all kinds of messed up magical stuff about it.

Anyhow, when it first came out, I watched the first season or so, and then lost interest. And then for some reason I watched the very last five or six episodes (the whole show ran for six years) just to see how they’d resolve it.

This Will NEVER Work!

So being a bit curious, I looked up the show’s info online. As it turned out, it almost never got off the ground. The studio exec who thought up the idea was told, again, and again, that it was too “dense.”

Meaning it was too complicated, too cerebral, too many overlapping stories intersecting in too many places.

But it turned out to be a HUGE success. A show they thought people weren’t intelligent enough to “get” or enjoy.

People Are Smarter Than You Think

I had a girlfriend once that would always do that with her friends when they went to see movies. My girlfriend felt she needed to “explain” all the seemingly complicated plot twists while they were happening.

She didn’t think her friends would “get them” otherwise.

Bottom line is that people are MUCH smarter than we give them credit for. I know it’s pretty popular (and easy), especially online to think that only “we” get it, or see things they way they REALLY are, and everybody is a drooling, mouth breathing idiot, but the truth is that people are pretty smart.

Including YOU.

Now it’s one thing to underestimate the intelligence of others. It may keep you from getting your ideas fully out there (because you may think nobody will understand them) or you may annoy your friends at the movies, but one of the BIGGEST mistakes you can make in life is to underestimate YOUR OWN intelligence.

You’re So Money And You Don’t Even Know It!

Because the simple truth is that YOU are capable of MUCH MORE than you think you are.

Even if you spend you entire life creating massive accomplishment after massive accomplish, you still haven’t even scratched the surface of your real potential.

Isn’t it time to find out what you can really do?