Today, Today it's great to have Robert Sternberg on the podcast.

Sternberg is a psychology professor at Cornell University.

Among his major contributions to psychology are the triarchic theory of intelligence and several

influential theories relating to creativity, thinking styles, love, and hate.

A review of general psychology survey ranks Sternberg as the 60th most cited

psychologist of the 20th century and he has authored or co-authored over 1500

publications including articles book chapters chapters, and books.

And even that bio is a huge understatement of all that you've accomplished.

Hey Bob, so great to have you on the podcast today.

Delight it to be here.

Thanks for having me. Well thanks for inspiring me to go into the field.

So my pleasure. I look what you've done. It seems fair. Seems fair.

No. Well thank you. Thank you so much.

That means a lot to me.

You know, in starting this conversation today,

we could obviously talk about the research stuff,

but I wanted to start more at your own childhood because I think it's,

I get a real kick out of every time I read that you created an intelligence test when you were in maybe even

elementary school. Can you kind of like tell me about that story?

Yeah, sure.

Well, when I was in elementary school, I didn't create it.

I did poorly on IQ tests as a young kid in the late 50s, early 60s they used to give IQ tests every year or two,

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