Being smart (intelligence) doesn't really matter in life. What matters are resources and opportunities. Those will trump intelligence every single time. Oh and there's always someone smarter than you so there's no point in taking pride in your intelligence, that pride will be shattered soon enough once you enter university (assuming you haven't been already).
There was a point in my life where I probably was a bit proud of my intelligence, but life has shown me it doesn't matter. There were two guys in particular that slacked off in class during my college years, disrupted the teachers, were the partying type, etc.
Me being raised blue pilled by my parents thought these guys were ruining their futures and I was confused thinking "don't they know how life works, why are they doing this?". Only to realize years in the future that I was the idiot and it was them who knew how life worked. My parents lied to me and made me waste a decade + of my fucking life with their blue pilled bullshit.
Those two guys despite being delinquents had family that already owned properties and businesses, and despite being significantly less intelligent than me, their beds were already made. I'm currently out of work waiting to be called in for an interview and last time I checked (years ago) they were both working for their family business, making easy money and being groomed for positions, and they already had decent family money to begin with.
Hard work doesn't mean shit.
Intelligence doesn't mean shit.
Morals don't mean shit.
The only thing that matters is if you have resources or the opportunities to acquire resources.
The "people who know" operate differently in life than the everyday pleb raised by wage slave parents. Looking back now, a lot of the guys who were slackers in my classes were slackers for a reason. It's because their parents/experiences showed them how real life worked long before I figured out. Whereas guys like me get trapped in a bubble of lies by our parents and only find out the truth later in life, when were already handicapped.
So now it's an uphill battle to try and get to where I need to be.
Don't value intelligence, it doesn't mean anything unless you have the resources and opportunities to apply it to generate wealth.
