Nick Perry (video creator) summarizes a Cambridge study claiming that many successful entrepreneurs have high IQs but poor academic grades, prefer nonconformist thinking, avoid rigid systems, get bored easily, and favor risk-taking and "dropping out" over following conventional educational or procedural rules.
You know who statistically are the best entrepreneurs in the world? Spoiler alert. The answer isn't the best student. This study from Cambridge actually found most successful entrepreneurs have a high IQ but bad grades. They don't like the rules, they believe that non conformist thinking is more important, they get bored super easily, and if something seems like a waste of time, they simply don't do it. They have a preference to do new things as opposed to follow rigid systems. So while the world tells us grades and IQ matter, understand the question is actually can you take risks and do you push back because then you might actually be a better entrepreneur? Because most of them believe in dropping out.
