unemployable

solving complex, real-world problems

 

neither pleasure nor pain

"You don't need tons of IQ in this business. It's temperamental not intellectual ... I'm in Omaha, Nebraska because Wall Street overstimulates."
- Warren Buffet [born 1930], CEO multi-conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway

serenity now

"If you worry a lot, fear not—your anxiety just might be a sign of high intelligence."

Full article here.

genius

"I.Q. tests are like golf where the lowest score is best."

find the right fit

“Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.”
- Albert Einstein

m.o.

"Put more IQ on the problem."

- Bill Gates

Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart

"A high IQ is like height in a basketball player," says David Perkins, who studies thinking and reasoning skills at Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "It is very important, all other things being equal. But all other things aren't equal. There's a lot more to being a good basketball player than being tall, and there's a lot more to being a good thinker than having a high IQ."

Article here.

patience

"I've been successful because I'm very impatient ... don't underestimate yourself. Just go for it."

- Nobel Laureate James Watson [born 1928], who maintains that he has a non-genius IQ of about 120.

The Truth About IQ

IQ scores can change dramatically and thus don't say anything about a person's intellectual limits, says David Shenk here.

The more you know

... the more you know you don’t know.

The Downing Effect describes the tendencies of people with below average intelligence quotients [IQs] to overestimate their intelligence, and of people with above average intelligence to underestimate their intelligence.