The Smartest Person In Any Conversation Is Actually the Most Damaged (And It's a Good Thing)
Being the smartest doesn't mean what you think. It's darker than that.
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The sound of shattering glass echoed through my apartment.
I stood there, staring at the remains of a coffee mug I'd just thrown against the wall. It was 5 AM, and I'd just closed another writing deal.
I should have been celebrating. Instead, I was having a breakdown in my kitchen, surrounded by ceramic shards and cold coffee dripping down my designer wallpaper.
Successful people don't throw mugs at walls. Stable people don't break down after winning. Smart people don't self-destruct at their peak.
Or so I thought.
What I didn't know then – what took me years of therapy and countless rock-bottom moments to understand – was that I wasn't losing my mind.
I was just finally letting myself feel how broken I actually was.
And…that brokenness?
It was the same force that had made me "successful" in the first place.