IQ and SuccessZhang Baotong 2016.6.6

The competition of human society is the competition of talents, and the outstanding expression of talents is in the wisdom and intelligence of people. However, what is the standard of intelligence and intelligence, and how can we know what our intelligence and intelligence really are? For this reason, in 1912, the German psychologist Stern proposed the IQ test, that is, the IQ test. It is a method of combining numeracy, space, logic, vocabulary, creativity, memory, and other abilities to measure. People with IQs between 90-120 are considered to have normal IQs. The most commonly used Stanford-Binet IQ test now considers an IQ above 140 to be very good, that is, a genius, 120-139 to be excellent, and an IQ of 170 to be super-genius. Those with an IQ of 110-119 are above the middle, that is, intelligent, 90-109 are average, 80-89 are below average, 70-79 are critically deficient, and below 69 are mentally deficient.

Comparing the international standard IQ test questions, we can obtain our IQ parameters. But we have to ask what age group this test is for? Is it a six-year-old, or a 60-year-old? Because the parameters measured by a 6-year-old and a 60-year-old must be different. And then there's whether the tests are the same for men and women, because men and women are not the same in their innate abilities. Women's language skills are stronger than men's, while men's logical thinking skills are stronger than women's. Men are better at operating computers than women, but women are more comfortable with children.

Moreover, each person has different talents and abilities. These aspects include mathematical ability, language ability, writing ability, abstract thinking ability, spatial imagination ability, drawing ability, etc., as well as a complex comprehensive system composed of imagination, comprehension, perception, intuition, spirituality, and physical condition, and even the creative power and pioneering spirit. These should all be part of our intelligence and IQ. However, existing IQ tests do not include them. As a result, IQ tests leave out a large number of important contents, or at least not comprehensively.

It is absurd to judge a person's future by a test of intelligence and intelligence. Let's take Stephen Hawking as an example. Hawking is the most important general relativity and cosmologist of our time, and together with Penrose, he proved the famous singularity theorem, and also proved the area theorem of black holes, and is known as the world's most famous scientific thinker and the most outstanding theoretical physicist after Einstein. However, as a child, he never entered the top 10 in his class, and his teachers felt that he was "hopeless", and his classmates often mocked him. However, more than 20 years later, the boy who was not outstanding at that time has become one of the most outstanding scientists of all time. This fact is obviously a great irony and mockery of the IQ test.

In fact, it is common for smart and precocious people to do their best to Jiang Lang later, and there are many people who were not amazing in their early years but later became late bloomers. Research shows that from the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977 to 2008, more than 1,100 top students in the college entrance examination were produced, but how many of them were able to excel and make a difference after graduating from university? Let's take a look at the many successful people, social elites, and even those who have won the Nobel Prize in society, who are ordinary in their childhood and have nothing extraordinary, but they can achieve great things through their later diligence and pursuit.

We want to test intelligence and IQ to see if we have the ability to succeed. Perhaps a person's intelligence and intelligence are closely related to his ability to succeed, but an ability does not represent a result. A high IQ does not mean that you will succeed. We do not doubt that the test method of intelligence and IQ may indeed test our intelligence and IQ at a certain time, or test some aspects of our intelligence and IQ, but human growth is in a dynamic change, and everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, which cannot be defined by IQ tests. In particular, people's ideals, aspirations, perseverance, motivation, environmental conditions, hobbies, health conditions, and natural destiny, etc., are not covered and taken into account by IQ tests. If the tester is successful, the success test should be employed. In this regard, Einstein formulated a formula: A=X+Y+Z. Translated into Chinese, it means success = hard labor + rest + less nonsense. And hard work is the most important. And the more popular and comprehensive formula in contemporary times is: success = right goal + right method + hard work + necessary talent + necessary objective conditions. It can be seen that for Einstein, as long as he works hard, with proper rest and less nonsense, he can succeed. For others, in addition to hard work, it is necessary not only to have the right goals and methods, but also to have certain talents and corresponding environmental conditions.

Einstein has Einstein's successful experience, and Hawking has Hawking's successful path. Everyone's experiences, talents, and circumstances are different, and so are the paths to success. We don't have to care about IQ levels, because the four major inventions, the Industrial Revolution and the Cultural Renaissance took place long before IQ tests appeared, and our predecessors didn't even know what IQ tests were. When it comes to IQ, we should neither think of ourselves as geniuses nor as lacking in IQ. It's a game of the mind. But we can choose the jobs and majors we like according to our talents and interests. If we want to be successful, we have to put in hard work and at the same time, we have to have a certain amount of talent.