Two Types of Intelligence, with Harvard Professor Arthur Brooks

Afford Anything

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

4.6 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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#363: In our 20’s and 30’s, we have high levels of fluid intelligence, or raw intellectual horsepower. We can ace tests, impress people with our memory and recall, and analyze facts, documents and data. But in our 40’s and 50’s, we have higher levels of crystallized intelligence, which allows us to draw together novel insights from across domains. Fluid intelligence allows us to analyze, or break apart. Crystallized intelligence allows us to synthesize, or put together. Each type of intelligence invites us to express different skills, to pivot our role at work – or perhaps even to change careers or industries altogether. In today’s episode, Harvard professor Arthur Brooks discusses these two types of intelligence, and outlines how we can gracefully move from one strength to the next. Subscribe to the show notes at https://affordanything.com/shownotes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You can afford anything but not everything.
0:11.0	Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else, and that doesn't just
0:14.3	apply to your money, that applies to your time, your focus, your energy, your attention.
0:18.8	Any limited resource that you need to manage, saying yes to something implicitly means,
0:23.3	turning away all other opportunities, and that leads to two questions, first, what matters
0:29.4	most?
0:30.4	Second, how do you make decisions around that which matters most?
0:36.1	How do you bridge the behavior gap so that your actions and your choices reflect what
0:41.4	you think you value?
0:43.2	Now answering those two questions is a lifetime practice, and that's what this podcast is here
0:48.2	to explore.
0:49.2	My name is Paula Pat, I am the host of the Afford Anything Podcast.
0:53.3	Normally, we're a weekly show, we air once a week, but once a month, on the first Friday
0:57.6	of the month, we air a first Friday bonus episode, so welcome to the February 2022, first
1:04.5	Friday bonus episode.
1:06.3	Today, Harvard professor Arthur Brooks joins us to talk about how to make a midlife career
1:15.5	change, except it's not exactly about a midlife career change, it's more how to recognize
1:22.2	when your skills, your talents, the types of intelligence that you have, how to recognize
1:28.6	when those are shifting and to lean into that, how to move from the type of strength that
1:34.7	you have early in your career to the different types of strength that you will have later
1:40.5	in your career.
1:41.8	And so to anyone who's interested in financial independence in an early retirement, in a
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