035: Robert Sternberg Isn't Interested in Your IQ

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Professor Robert Sternberg, psychologist and psychometrician thinks schools have been testing and teaching the wrong qualities for the last century. What if we've been frittering away vast amounts of human potential in that same time frame? Cornell Professor Sternberg has found that success in academics and in life is more closely tied to creative and practical thinking, wisdom and ethics than it is to IQ and memorization, the measures currently in use. He's on a mission to shake things up. Sternberg also has some invaluable advice on perseverance and seeing through our passions, and he speaks from experience as his path stretches all the way back to elementary school.http://spartanuppodcast.com/035

Lessons:
1. The most valuable qualities for success are not tested for in schools: creative and practical thought, wisdom and ethics.
2. Keep going in the face of obstacles; persevere, but also realize when you're in the wrong race.
3. Achieving success is not always getting to your original goal. Sometimes the path was right but the goal was wrong or the goal was right but the path was wrong. Constantly reexamine your path and your goal.

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0:00.0	You're listening to SpartanUp Podcast.com where we study success and everything required to create it.
0:05.7	We interview people from all over the world that are successful, no matter how they define it.
0:17.0	Hey here we are in the Amy Barn
0:19.5	Pittsfield Vermont for Spartanup Podcast.com.
0:22.8	We have our crack team of Colonel Nye on my left.
0:26.5	Cracker number one.
0:28.0	Cracker Jack number one.
0:28.9	I'm going to jump out to order for a second.
0:30.1	I'm going to point right at the camera here
0:32.2	to Marion Abrams
0:33.4	Marion nodding up and down. I want to do something unique. Why don't I jump out? I'll
0:38.6	hold the camera and we'll get Marion in here. I love it. But I just want to say
0:42.2	before we do that this interview it'll start out as a sleeper
0:45.4	you got to watch this one twice this could be one of our best podcasts ever you
0:48.6	guys haven't seen it yet but the information the information that this guy will give is
0:52.2	going to blow you away.
0:53.0	Okay, for all, let's get married up here.
0:54.0	Come on, married.
0:55.0	You're only guy can afford to be afraid to break.
0:58.0	So, do, do, do, do hang in because in because well it will be our best interview possibly of the whole thing.
1:06.8	I guarantee it's going to be our worst intro as far as how the camera's being held.
1:11.7	We are here at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York for Spartan up the
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