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智商高易成功?
Does A High IQ Guarantee Success? Maybe Not greatist.com
Despite flaws in IQ testing, intelligence
has been shown to play a role in determining achievement, business success, and
even the rate of our mortality — mostly because IQ strongly correlates with
income . Having a high IQ also increases the likelihood of becoming a
high-performer in a variety of aptitudes, from science to music. That’s because
a genius can process, store, and recall an absurd amount of highly complex
information — it’s called working memory capacity .
But if being a brainiac was the one and
only criterion for success, everyone with a lofty IQ would be wildly successful
— and obviously, that’s not always the case. Even a genius can squander their
intelligence jackpot . When smart people encounter a problem that needs
solving, they tend to forgo facts in favor of mental shortcuts. Trouble is,
these shortcuts can lead to foolish mistakes and ultimately the wrong answer.
Turns out Mom was right: We can be too smart for our own good.
So if great intellect doesn’t guarantee
success, what factors separate an average Joe from a highly intelligent
outlier? The real question becomes: Can we actually compete with genius by
going from good to great?
The Genius Myth — The Answer/Debate
Genius is real, but it can also be really
misleading. For one thing, putting too much stake in “genius” implies the
entire average-achieving population is virtually helpless. When taken at face
value, the idea of innate intelligence plays into the genius myth. This legend
would have us mere mortals believe that we either have it or we don’t —
whatever “it” is. But when the curtain is pulled back, we see that genius is
nothing more than a comforting parable. It comes in handy when trying to explain
why some people seem to have it all, but it doesn’t accurately depict the full
scope and scale of human intelligence.
In reality, success is based on a whole lot
more than genius alone. Persistence, practice, socio-emotional skills, our
environment, the way we’re raised, and luck all combine to determine what we
will achieve . This explains why early interventions in child development so
often improve individuals’ chances of success — our potential isn’t fixed the
day we’re born; rather, it's highly fluid and dependent on a number of both
external and internal factors.
Smart Versus Successful — The Takeaway
When it comes determining to success, IQ
isn’t a promise, it’s more of a performance enhancer. If genius is the elevator
to the top, we’ll just have to take the stairs. It may take longer, but it’ll
still get us to where we want to go.
Q:
Do you believe that a high IQ guarantees success?
What are the Key Success Factors?
What are the Things Successful People Do
Differently?
Do Intelligent People Make More Money?
Do You Think That Genius Is Inborn Or
Acquired?
What do you think this quotation ”A genius
equals 1% inspiration plus 99% perspiration”?
不動的代價
Sedentary lifestyle can kill BBC Fergus Walsh Medical correspondent
The world is just days away from the
greatest global showcase of elite sport.
But while a few thousand athletes will be
pushing their bodies to the limit, most of the world will be watching on TV,
sitting inactive for hours on end.
In a series of articles in the Lancet timed
to coincide with the Olympics, researchers from 16 countries set out the scale
of the health burden created by physical inactivity. You can read more about
the research here.
The scientists say they are neither
Olympics kill-joys nor are they advocating punishing gym sessions. As Pamela
Das from the Lancet puts it: "It is not about running on a treadmill,
whilst staring at a mirror and listening to your iPod."
There's nothing wrong with going to the gym
of course, but the aim is to encourage everyone to build physical activity into
their daily lives, such as by walking, cycling, swimming, gardening or doing
any sport they enjoy.
The trouble is, all that sounds familiar.
We all know we should move more and sit less.
Despite that, one in three adults worldwide
fails to do the recommended 150 minutes of moderate aerobic physical activity
per week. In the UK two out of three adults don't manage it. The guidance is
here.
So rather than stressing the health
benefits of exercise, the Lancet researchers have opted to show the harm caused
by inactivity. They estimate lack of exercise is responsible for about 5.3m
deaths a year - about the same number as smoking.
This is based on estimates of the impact on
inactivity on coronary heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, and two specfic cancers
- breast and bowel - where lack of exercise is a major risk factor.
There are some weaknesses in the data. The
scientists have had to rely on the results of questionnaires sent out to 122
countries in which people self-report their levels of activity. It must also be
difficult to separate the disease burden of obesity from the figures.
Q:
Why sedentary lifestyle can kill?
How much hours you have been sitting
watching on Tv, search sth through internet?
How often do you do exercise?
What are the risks of inactivity?
What are the benefits of physical activity?
What are the benefits of exercise?
How to deal with obesity?
洪蘭：聰明人，為什麼不成功？
2015-04-01 天下雜誌 569期 作者：洪蘭
台灣家長最熱衷的，就是如何讓孩子變聰明。然而史丹佛大學的「天才基因研究」顯示，智商高，未必會成材。
某新上任市長每日語出驚人，一開始，老百姓不敢相信讀書人會如此沒同理心，把別人的自尊心踩在腳底下。後來見怪不怪，也就算了。
但最近，該公僕連罵三次「你智商有多少」？又讓老百姓驚到變色。因為這話顯露出他觀念的偏差。智商只是成功的一個條件，不是充分必要條件，智商高並沒有高人一等。
不知為何，中國人很迷信聰明，家長最熱衷的就是如何使孩子變聰明。其實聰明人若不懂韜光養晦，反有殺身之禍。三國時的楊脩極聰明，「黃絹幼婦外孫齏臼」，他一看便知是「絕妙好辭」；曹操也不笨，卻「乃覺三十里」，但楊脩最後死於曹操之手。智商高又如何？
聰明反被聰明誤
一九二一年，史丹佛大學的特曼（Lewis Terman）想知道：一個人若聰明，又有最好的環境，他的天賦可發展到什麼程度？他篩選一五二八個三歲到二十八歲、智商在一四○以上的人，提供最好的學習條件，追蹤他們的一生，這就是著名的「天才基因研究」。
整體來說，這些聰明人的表現都不錯，但是並沒有人拿到諾貝爾獎；而在最好的條件下，仍有許多人不成材。最著名的是一位六歲就會讀《莎士比亞》的小女孩，她IQ一九五分，特曼驚為天人，把她全家從奧克蘭搬到史丹佛大學附近，使特曼自己可以全心培養她。
她十六歲哈佛大學畢業後去法國留學，特曼付所有的費用，但這孩子在歐洲混了十年，一事無成，最後回到加州，靠著把特曼最初買給她住的房子，分租給史丹佛的學生度日。她過世時，死亡證明書上寫的是「女房東」。
一九六八年，研究者從這專案尚存活的一千多人中，選出最傑出的一百名專業人士和一百名普通人士來兩相比較。結果發現，這兩組在IQ上沒有差別，差別在他們成年後各自發展出的自信、毅力和耐挫力。
聰明反被聰明誤的例子很多，世界上成功的人，都不是最聰明的人，卻是最有毅力的人。孫權說「千人同心，則得千人之力，萬人異心，則無一人之用。」歷史上，不管這個人當時多怎麼顯赫，一旦眾叛親離，便只好黯然退場。
時光無情，四年很快就會過去，如何運用智慧領導該市繼往開來，才是老百姓真正要的。
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