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# How to Be the Dumbest Person in the Room
- URL: https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/how-to-be-the-dumbest-person-in-the-room/
- Published: 2018-07-11T19:44:24.000Z
- Updated: 2018-07-11T19:44:24.000Z
- Author: CJ Chilvers
- Tags: personality, business, money

James Altucher recently posted about [the smartest piece of financial advice he'd ever received](https://jamesaltucher.com/2018/06/smartest-financial-advice/?ref=cjchilvers.com):

> "Everyone has to be smarter than me for me to get involved."

The whole post is a great story of ups and downs that's all about having a beginner's mind at all times.

Read the post, then watch Jeremy Irons perform this very idea below. In this scene, from the movie Margin Call, he's the CEO of a large investment bank on the brink of the housing collapse a decade ago. In my career I've dealt with many high-level executives in banking and other industries. The best of them approach meetings exactly like this (even with very small problems).