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Malcom Gladwell, #1 bestseller of Outliers, Tipping Point and Blink
Lewis Terman was a professor of psychology at the Standford University after the First World War. He specialized in IQ testing and one day stumbled across a seven year old child who had an IQ of 140(the average IQ of a human is 100-120, Einstein had an IQ of around 150). This child could play the piano and had musical skills far beyond his years. After discovering this talented child, Terman became obsessed with the possibility of there being other such kids with high intelligence. In the years to come he found 1,470 children, out of thousands, who scored an average of 140 to 200 on the IQ test. As these children grew up he studied their grades in high school and beyond, and was delighted at what he saw. Terman viewed these “gifted” children as the future elite of America. The ones who were going to come out on top in areas of science, education, government etc. etc. Terman viewed IQ as the most important factor to a person’s well being, “There is nothing about an individual that is as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.” he said.
To this day IQ is still viewed as a major factor in determining an individual’s success, whether it be in education or on the job.
Opportunity Thinking vs. Intellectual Thinking
Years later, Termin continued to track the progress his “geniuses” and how they were doing throughout their adult lives. Some became lawyers, authors, judges and a few of them ran for public office. Many of them made an average wage, not the type of wage you’d expect “geniuses” make. A few of them where big time failures.
How do you explain individuals with IQs scoring higher than Einstein’s growing up to be barely above average or less? It becomes apparent that their great intellectual mind power and their ability to identify opportunity are not at all related. So what if they could solve complex math problems? There seems to be a wide gap between what’s required to survive in real life and what they were actually capable of.
I think we put way too much emphasis on IQ. After all, who has a greater advantage, the person who can write the song or the person who can play the song. Both are important, a musician doesn’t get too far just writing songs and not being able to play. However, even a computer can play back music, but it takes a different kind of intelligence to actually WRITE the song.
In Outliers Malcom Gladwell, author of two #1 bestsellers, compares IQ to a basketball player’s hight. Hight is important, but it’s not what ultimately determines a great basketball player. Obviously speed, agility, the ability to pass the ball and score goals matters as well. Just as hight alone doesn’t determine ability to play basketball, IQ doesn’t determine emotional competence and overall smarts required in order to succeed in life. In a lifetime a person must also learn to think creatively, to handle people, negotiate and close deals, think strategically, handle stressful situations etc etc. People who fail soft skills often miss lots of opportunities in their lifetime. Does an IQ test test a level of creativity, or passion, or enthusiasm? Of course not. These are factors that are apart of success but have absolutely nothing to do with IQ.
“Smart” people can calculate the risk factors of a great idea and decide it’s too risky to bother with, yet an enthusiastic, passionate, less educated person can run with and grow something out of an idea that would of otherwise never seen the light of day. This doesn’t happen all the time, but it does often enough. The best escape convicts in the world can find ingenious loop wholes in a jail system to take advantage of. The best marketer in the world knows how to make people go crazy over what he’s marketing. They could both be considered great minds, are they using the same intelligences? Not entirely, . And so my opinion is: focus LESS on IQ and focus MORE on developing your other intelligences, such as EQ(Emotional Intelligence) and your creative abilities. Soft skills wont get you high marks in school, but they will in life. If we want to know about a person’s chances to go places, we need to know much more than his grades in physics and math. IQ, after all, is only just a number, only a very a small slice between one ear and another.
