Intelligence is Not Enough: The Genius Zone - Dean Simonton : 576
The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
This episode of Bulletproof Radio includes a surprising amount of laughter that makes the topic of intelligence and genius a fun listen.
Our guest is Dean Keith Simonton, Ph.D., a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of California-Davis. He’s known as the “Maverick Psychologist” who has been defying the establishment all of his nearly half-century career in the areas of genius, creativity, aesthetics, and leadership.
In this lively conversation, you’ll learn that intelligence needs a sprinkling of grit, creativity and imagination to flourish into genius. You’ll find out that taking risks matters: “In order to make discoveries, in order to invent new things, you have to be willing to try things out and fail.” You’ll discover, too, that creators (typically introverts) and leaders (typically extroverts) use their smarts in significantly different ways.
“I think the problem is that when people think that they don't have a genius level IQ,” Dr. Dean says. “They may think they're doomed or they're not going to be able to achieve much.” But, “you can't let the IQ score determine who you are.” His most recent book gives a “genius checklist” of tips for anyone to follow.
Dr. Dean studies the cognitive, personal, developmental, social, and cultural factors behind eminence, giftedness, and talent. He’s researched some of the greatest figures throughout history and examined why their achievements—in science, philosophy, literature, music, art, cinema, politics, and war—have stood the test of time.
Be open to today’s experience (hint… it’s a personality predictor of outstanding achievement) and ...
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:16.2 | Today's cool fact of the day is that MRI scans show that your brain region connectivity |
| 0:21.7 | correlates to your intelligence. |
| 0:24.3 | There's a new and relatively simple technique from mapping the wiring of your brain, and |
| 0:29.2 | they've basically shown that how the individual regions of your brain talk to each other can |
| 0:34.5 | correlate very well with intelligence. |
| 0:37.0 | This comes from University of Cambridge and the NIH in the US, and they're using FMRI, |
| 0:45.1 | or actually I apologize, they're using conventional MRI, which is much more affordable than FMRI |
| 0:51.2 | in order to look at what your brain's doing. |
| 0:53.4 | Normally an MRI gives you a single image of your brain, and then they can use that to calculate |
| 0:58.0 | multiple structural features. |
| 1:00.7 | That means that every region of the brain can be described with 10 different characteristics. |
| 1:05.6 | What these people figured out, which is kind of cool because it's a simple tech, as |
| 1:08.7 | it have two regions of the brain have similar profiles, then they're in a connected network. |
| 1:14.6 | They invented an idea of something called morphometrics similarity networks, and can say how well |
| 1:19.2 | connected are the hubs looking at the very basic physiology of the brain. |
| 1:24.3 | They said if there's connectivity in the MSNs and brain regions linked to higher order |
| 1:28.9 | functions like problem solving or language, that your intelligence would be higher. |
| 1:33.4 | This is particularly interesting because it's a very easy test to do, and it correlates |
| 1:38.0 | very well with some of the stuff that we're doing at 40 years of Zen, where we're mapping |
| 1:42.4 | connectivity of different areas in the brain across different wavelengths of EEG in order |
| 1:47.5 | to make the brain work better or faster or have neurons fire different signal amplitudes |
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