Have you ever wondered why Forrest Gump became rich and successful even if he was “stupid and dumb”?

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I’ve watched this movie many times already, but it just sinked in to me now that how come Forrest Gump became rich and successful, even though he is considered “stupid” by regular people.
What is common to most successful people and Forrest Gump?

1. FOCUS
In whatever he did in the movie, he was focused. Gump was focused in running for the Alabama Football Team in college and he did it well. He was also focused in disassemblimg and assembling guns. He was also all eyes on pingpong and again, he did pretty well in it. Next was the shrimping, and again, he did great. Another one is running.

What he has showed in the movie, similar to other successful people, is that he has HIS MIND into it. He has focused himself into one thing at a time – giving undivided attention to a task.
No matter what happens, Forrest Gump was focused on the goal.

2. PERSEVERANCE
Forrest demonstrated his will to not give in to failure. He had been touted, tested and pushed around but he persevered. From school, military and in relationship he never gave up.
There is a part where he said he just “ran”. When he reached one end, he would go back to run again.

3. “DUMBNESS”
Sometimes, most of us are too smart for ourselves, that we try to play smart and ended up moving “safe”.
Forrest demonstrated that he got one thing in mind, one goal at a time, and eveytime he pursues it he just goes after it. Nike’s tagline “JUST DO IT” says it all.
Most of the successful just try things not not out of comfort. More often, they try new things just for the sake of finding out if it leads to their goals.
I’m pretty sure that the Wright Brothers were ridiculed a lot of times, before proving to the other people that they can fly.

Most likely, Henry Ford were probably labeled insane just to manufacture the first car.

Sometimes, regular people are afraid to try new things, thinking it’s not what has “proven” to be right. To later find out that their theory is right after one “dumb” person just tried it and not hesitated of being “too smart” to complete all the things needed before going into it.

Like the old saying, “how can you fill your cup, if you think it’s full”, meaning how can we learn more stuff if we think we know a lot already.
Life is a journey of trying and learning. We will never know what “might have been” if we don’t just do it.

I’m guilty of this a lot of times. I tend to be so critical that I forget to try it and make an effort to just make it happen because I was trying to be smart not to fail.

But if you do this, most of the time you end up not losing, but also not winning at all.

I like what Forrest Gump said “I’m not a smart man, but I know what love is.”

To be successful you need not to be the smartest person you could ever be. You just have to know what you want, focus there, just do it and fret not to repeat over and over again until reach that goal.

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