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The Tai Lopez Show

Do You Need A High IQ To Be Rich?

The Tai Lopez Show

Tai Lopez

Business

4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2014

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever asked yourself these questions:
How smart am I and does it even matter?
Do I need a high I.Q. to be rich?

Today's Book of the Day is, “Successful Intelligence: How Practical and Creative Intelligence Determine Success in Life” by Robert Sternberg.

Sternberg hypothesizes that I.Q is not a fixed measurement, the way it has been misunderstood for years, and he gives us a lot of insight into how IQ is changeable.

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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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