The Courage Not to Know....
Taste the word. "Stupid"!
It’s short, sharp – almost like a punch on the table.
But when you say it with a smile, there’s something liberating in it.
It blows away all pretense and leaves behind something honest – something human.
We often use it as an insult. “Don’t be stupid.”
But what if stupid is sometimes exactly what we need?
The courage to dare. To try. To not know – but still do it.
Because if you never do something stupid, you probably never do anything new either.
The Stupid Ones Who Changed the World
They were called crazy, unrealistic, irrational.
When they built machines to fly. When they sent electricity through the air.
When they painted people blue or wrote music nobody wanted to hear.
All those stupid people who refused to follow the rules.
Albert Einstein was called slow and unintelligent as a child.
Nikola Tesla died poor and ridiculed – yet his “stupid ideas” became the foundation of our modern world.
Steve Jobs was fired from his own company for being too stubborn, too irrational – too stupid.
Those who dare to look foolish change the world.
They see what others cannot.
They ask the question everyone else avoids: “But why not?”
It’s Stupid to Be Smart All the Time
We live in a time when everyone wants to seem clever.
Every sentence must be polished, every decision backed by data, every move strategic.
But in all this intelligence, we risk suffocating life itself.
We think too much. We analyze away our emotions.
Sometimes the wisest thing you can do is simply to be stupid.
Because “stupid” isn’t a lack of intelligence.
It’s a state of presence.
A willingness to act before you fully understand.
To feel your way forward rather than measuring it.
There’s something pure, almost childlike in that –
a vitality the world desperately needs more of.
But Not All That Is Stupid Is Beautiful
There is another kind of stupidity.
The destructive kind.
The kind born out of fear, hatred, or greed.
The kind that leads to war, murder, oppression, and injustice.
It’s stupid to send young people to die for the egos of old men.
It’s stupid to burn the planet’s resources for short-term profit.
It’s stupid to hate someone for their skin color, faith, or love.
And it’s stupid to believe that violence, lies, and propaganda can ever create peace.
That kind of stupidity isn’t brave – it’s cowardly.
It comes from an inability to feel.
From a need to dominate rather than to understand.
It doesn’t create – it destroys.
And that’s the kind of stupidity we must resist with everything we have.
The Good Kind of Stupid
Because there’s another kind – the beautiful kind.
The creative, life-loving stupidity that makes us try again when everything seems impossible.
The kind that allows us to laugh at our mistakes.
The kind that opens our hearts when our minds want to shut down.
It’s the stupidity that makes us say, “I don’t know how, but I’ll try.”
The one that builds bridges, not walls.
The one that dares to love, even at the risk of being hurt.
The one that still believes the world can be better, even when it looks hopeless.
To be stupid in that way is to be alive.
To be human.
To accept that we don’t know everything – and that’s exactly why we can still learn.
Creative Madness
Every great project begins with a moment of madness.
“What happens if I do this?”
It’s a seed of stupidity – but inside it lives all human curiosity.
If you always know what you’re doing, you’re not growing.
If you only move within what you already understand, you’ll never create.
It takes a touch of stupidity to break free from the predictable.
Every creative soul – artist, engineer, musician, entrepreneur –
has that inner voice saying, “This is crazy.”
And another whispering, “Exactly. That’s why I’ll do it.”
Standing in Your Stupidity
The hardest part isn’t being stupid.
The hardest part is staying there – when others stare, doubt, or laugh.
To keep going when the world tells you to stop.
To face destructive stupidity with your own creative, human, curious kind.
Because “stupid” is freedom.
Freedom from the fear of being judged.
Freedom from the need to always be right.
Freedom to live, to try, to feel, to fail, to rise again.
The Smartest Kind of Stupid
The greatest stupidity of all would be to believe that we cannot change.
To give up.
To let the destructive forces win.
But every time someone chooses love over hate,
curiosity over fear,
creation over destruction –
stupid becomes beautiful again.
Because the world is not saved by cynics.
It’s saved by those stupid enough to still believe in something better.
Be Stupid – But Choose Your Side
So next time someone calls you “stupid,”
smile.
But ask yourself:
Which kind of stupid are we talking about?
Because there’s a stupidity that kills –
and one that makes life bloom.
Choose the latter.
Be stupid enough to believe in good.
Stupid enough to love.
Stupid enough to live.
By Chris...