The School of Greatness · 2026-06-22 · 54 min · 9,498 words

Why Smart People Struggle to Manifest | Lewis Howes

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If manifestation is not working for you, if you feel like you have been working hard every single day to create the life of your dreams and for whatever reason it's not working, it might be because you're too smart. Now, let me hold, let me get back onto this in a second. Sometimes when we overthink, When we overanalyze, when we over-try, we block the opportunities for abundance. We block the opportunities for things to happen naturally, organically.

We block the flow of synchronicities, of people allowing people to bring things to us, for doors to open up, to new ideas to emerge. We block these things. Seriously, the people who struggle with creating their dream lives. the most. The people who struggle with manifesting effortlessly the most are often the ones who think the most as well.

And there is one small shift that they're missing. Changes everything when you start to make this shift. And I know this because I've been stuck in that pattern in the past at once myself as well. I was learning, I was analyzing, I was over explaining, I was trying to figure it all out all at once. obsessing about it and it was just like there's too much happening in my brain.

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