Many people ask questions such as, “Who was more intelligent, Einstein or Newton?” In the modern context, the question is, “Who is smarter, Elon Musk or Bill Gates?” Both questions are unanswerable because intelligence is a multi-dimensional attribute. Imagine that you’re lost in the Australian outback and you have a choice of people, Elon Musk, …
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When Dr. Gene Landrum published his book, Entrepreneurial Genius: The Power of Passion, he profiled a dozen of the greatest entrepreneurs, including Henry Ford, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and even the founder of Playboy, Hugh Hefner. Yet, only one of these entrepreneurs has been featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and it wasn’t Hugh. …
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In the 1970s, NBC anchors David Brinkley and John Chancellor delivered the news to many Americans. Other Americans tuned in to CBS where Walter Cronkite had earned the title, “Most trusted man in America,” for his balanced reporting of world events. Still others visited ABC where three anchors, including Peter Jennings, provided news that paralleled …
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While there is no perfect device for measuring general intelligence, g, the efficacy of IQ tests in predicting job capability and performance is well established in the research. Linda Gottfredson, one of the leading researchers in the implications of general intelligence, states: (Gottfredson, Linda S. “Why g Matters: The Complexity of Everyday Life.” 1997. Intelligence 24 …
During your early years, your brain was attempting to adapt to your environment. During your first two years of existence, the neurons in your brain were connecting at the rate of about 2 million synapses per second, so that by age 2 you had about 100 trillion synapses–about double the number you have now. In …
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Many people would think that the investigation of such things as prime numbers is irrelevant to society. In fact, number theorist, G. H. Hardy justified pure mathematics on the basis of the purity it derives from its irrelevance. In his landmark publication, A Mathematician’s Apology, Hardy was unapologetic about the fact that number theory, unlike …
One significant benefit of being in a class of gifted students is that you are less likely to be bullied. As evident in the biographies of people like Bezos, Musk, Jobs and others, children who are gifted have different interests from most others and therefore cannot self-reference to understand how others feel. In their early …
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Geniuses, like great comedians, have a way of seeing things from an entirely different perspective from the rest of us. A comedian might say, “Herman was not bankrupt, he just had too much life left over at the end of his money.” In a similar way, geniuses typically upend general consensus by seeing through a …
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The answer to this question depends not only upon the society, but also on the subculture within that society. For example, in an academic society, especially in the natural sciences, there is a high premium on intelligence. When Albert Einstein was presenting his Theories of Relativity, people showed up en masse to see what a …
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People of high IQ probably struggle more to understand things than people of average IQ. While this seems paradoxical, it is something that you will probably observe if you look at the people around you. People of high IQ believe that most, if not all, ideas and concepts that humans have developed are within their …
