A speaker argues the bell curve meme teaches more about success than formal math: both simple and smart people win by keeping things straightforward, while the overthinking middle class gets trapped in complexity. He claims everyone using budgeting apps ends up broke, and that business is just making something and selling it.
Advice to a younger me: this bell curve meme will come in handy more than any bell curve you ever learned about in school. This bell curve changed my life. I was this guy trying to do all the crazy organization, and I realized, bro, I need to be this guy. The simple man and the smart man both just do Apple Notes. This is another one of my favorites. The dumb person and the smart person, they're both like, I'm just going to make more money. The guy in the middle is like, no, no, no, I need a finance tracking app. Everybody I know who uses a budget app is broke. For any young communists out here, this is all business is, just making stuff and selling it. An artisan, a CEO, you're just making stuff and selling it. Meanwhile, people in the middle are like, no, everybody's stealing my wages. Just be this guy or this guy. Both are happy and rich. This one's a banger, kind of spiritual, but I definitely was this guy as a kid where it was like, this is all BS. And now like, I'm kind of right there, man. The world's pretty crazy place, and keep your eyes open, you know what I'm saying?
