Most people make this assumption that the smarter you are the more likely you are going
to be successful in life.
especially in college in school when someone always gets good grades and is clearly smarter
the the rest, we tend to think of them that they are going to be successful in life, so
the question that I was wondering about recently is, do smart people have higher chance to
be successful, or intellect doesn't really play any major role in becoming successful.
so after some research , I cam across this study which gave me a reasonable answer
so right after World War 1, a psychologist by the name of Dr lewis Terman tried to answer
this question by making an experiment that lasted almost forty years, its the longest
experiment that is ever done in the history of psychology.
so he tried to answer this question weather smart people have any higher chance to be
successful than the rest of the people.
He started looking for the smartest kids from all around United States and around 250K kids
were suggested by different people that these kids clearly smarter than their peers, but
of course he could not only relay on what people are suggesting, so his condition was
to accept a kid to be smart or no that he scores an IQ of at least 140 which is the
genius level.
just to let you know that most people score between 90 and 109, if you are scoring anything
above that you are consider to be very smart but if you score more than 140, you are considered
to be genius.
so out of 250 thousand kids that were suggested to him from all corners of US, only 1487 of
them scored more than 140 in iq test, which makes them literally the smartest kids in
all of Unites States.
in fact, Einstein for example scored 160, so these kids are as smart as Einstein or
maybe smarter.
and he decided to spent the rest of his life, following them and studying then.
after few years of following them, he realised that the are the ones who are getting the
best grades in school, winning all kind of competitions and so on
which led the Dr Termin to come to a conclusion that, these are kids the ones who are going
to be the leaders of tomorrow, they are the ones who will become those billionaires, famous
politician and maybe the future president of United States
but unfortunately that was very far from truth.
when these kids have grown up, only a small tiny number of them actually achieved something
great in life.
and none of them could win at least a noble prize,
while 2 kids who were rejected in the beginning who were not considered to be very smart like
the rest, actually won noble prizes, in fact in physics.
So after so many years of research, Dr Termin concluded his study with this quote.
We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.
Being Smart is one thing, but achieving something in life is whole different story.
just because someone is little smarter than you doesn’t mean he is going to be more
successful in life.
we have developed this culture where we started overestimating the intellect to a point where
we started thinking that its the most important tool that you need to be successful, where
in fact its not.
SO never let anyone to fool you that you are not going to be successful or be a great leader
just because you are not very smart or because you are not getting good grades in college.
You might be talented in other areas of life.
and who knows, you might also end up getting a noble prize.
the whole point of this video is, Intellect is overrated, but hard work can guarantee
you results.
hope you guys enjoyed this video, let me know in the comments below, what do you think is
the most important think that will make you successful.
I would like to hear your opinions .
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