Blessings and curses...........

..........................often spring from the same source.   Ben Carlson offers some thoughts on the subject.   Wee excerpt here:

It became apparent that the smartest person in the room isn’t always right. In fact, most of the time their intelligence works against them because they’ve become so sure of themselves and their investing abilities that they’re unable to change their mind or accept the fact that the markets don’t care what your IQ is.