I'm giving you a had time. If you don't mind, I would like to share my concerns with you about Eric Dubay. Don't spend too much time comparing your self to others. You need to develop the following skills: 1) You need to be able to ascertain how smart another person is. This is kind of difficult, but the skill can be acquired. You need to get to a point where you can tell if someone is smart or just pretending to sound smart. There are a lot of great tools for figuring this out by here is one or two: Technique #1: Think about what they are NOT telling you. Result: If they are DELIBERATELY not telling you information, they are a scam artist 100% of the time, no exceptions. If they are ACCIDENTALLY not telling you information, they are are just stupid. Once you start to see this pattern, you will start to see that you are surrounded mostly by scam artists. There are very few actually stupid people, you won't see those too often. Most average users are actually really smart but their mental database of info is a little flat. Technique #2: Get smarter. The smarter you are the easier it is to ascertain who around you is smart and who isn't. You might be surprised just how incredibly smart average people are and the only reason they don't come across as smart because their internal database about how the world works is a little on the empty side. The amount of TRULY smart people or TRULY dumb people you will find around is really really really small. They are very rare. Instead, most people that seem smarter than you just know a little bit more OR are scam artists. You will be surprised how many scam artists are around us. All of the media is 100% full of these people. 2) You need to be able to tell if a person is smart or actually a scam artist. This is difficult but it is a skill that can be gained. The same as above applies, except you need to find some scam artists and just learn how they operate. Once you see the grift, you will notice it eveywhere. VERDICT ON ERIC DUBAY: My evaluation of him is as follows: Eric Dubay is a seriously mentally ill man. He is too dumb to grift, instead he has a kind of mental illness that puts his iq juuuuuust over mentally retarded so he comes across as saying insightful things. It is plausible he has a form of schizophrenia. Here is a video from a world renowned neuroendocrinology researcher on the general subject of mental illness and how ancient societies used to deal with them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEnklxGAmak You are being hoodwinked by a modern version of someone that in ancient days would be thought of as a shaman, whom we now know is just mentally ill. // EDIT: As a side point, a fun experiment is to try and guess if Slavoj Zizek is smart, stupid, a scammer or mentally ill.