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🗓️ 17 October 2014
⏱️ 23 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right, the question is how smart are you and does it even matter? |
0:05.3 | Does IQ matter? |
0:06.6 | We live in a world dominated by tests, absolute measures or attempts at absolutely taking |
0:14.2 | a measurement of who you are, how smart you are, doesn't matter. |
0:17.4 | Do you need IQ to be rich? |
0:20.2 | Right? |
0:21.2 | These are the type of questions that I'm sure at some point I have rolled through your brain. |
0:25.8 | You grew up, you were put in classrooms, you were put with other kids, it was competitive, |
0:31.2 | you got a report card, you needed grades to get into university. |
0:35.6 | So there is a lot of belief around IQ. |
0:40.7 | So today's book of the day is successful intelligence by a very famous guy, Robert Sternberger |
0:47.7 | and Sternberg, sorry. |
0:50.2 | And really he goes into this from a perspective that I hadn't heard before and you may now |
1:01.5 | have heard before. |
1:02.5 | He basically says, if you look at the world that we're in now for various reasons, you |
1:08.6 | could call it a conspiracy theory, you could say it's just playing logical to do it this |
1:13.0 | way, but we live in a world dominated by tests. |
1:16.0 | So the way you see yourself right now, whether it comes to business or social life, who |
1:23.2 | you think you deserve to marry, the amount of money you deserve to make, I guarantee you |
1:28.8 | at some point you've tried to gauge yourself socially in the hierarchy. |
1:34.0 | You know they say chickens, when I lived on a farm, a chicken can tell the difference |
1:39.1 | between about 150 other chickens. |
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