Play to your strengths; do what you’re best at. You don’t have to be best in the world at it for it to be valuable.
Good things about this advice are (a) it has a fairly-sound theory behind it (Comparative advantage), and (b) it applies whether or not you’re smart, normal or dumb, so you don’t get in to socially-destructive comparisons of intelligence.
Play to your strengths; do what you’re best at. You don’t have to be best in the world at it for it to be valuable.
Good things about this advice are (a) it has a fairly-sound theory behind it (Comparative advantage), and (b) it applies whether or not you’re smart, normal or dumb, so you don’t get in to socially-destructive comparisons of intelligence.