I struggle in life because I’m smart

Alexei Sorokin
4 min readNov 21, 2021

(And humble…)

I know I’m smart. It’s part of being smart. I am not sure what exact kind of “smart”. There are different kinds for sure, not a single archetype.

On being smart

I’m smart on paper. I went to Cambridge and Harvard Business School!

I love Radiohead and Dostoevsky!

More importantly, I feel deeply aware of myself, the world, and its 8 billion fellow human beings. I accept them all, with their differences, complexities, and controversies, their inner worlds…

--

--

Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. https://runningwritingliving.substack.com/