If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room. It's wiser to surround yourself with smarter people and feel uncomfortable than to limit yourself to a mediocre circle just to feel comfortable.
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If you are the smartest person in the room, you survived another day as a kindergarten teacher
Easier said than done. I've been looking for arahants and bodhisattvas for years all around the world. When I thought I found one, I discovered he left the Samsara years ago. Another suspect followed the same path before I could meet him.
I used to know literally hundreds of "guys who knew a guy". I kept inviting them all with me all the time, but one by one they all followed pussies and with them - fake prophets, and left lightyears behind.
I ams still looking and will never stop.