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    I know plenty of highly intelligent people.

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    Some of them can recite classic literature.

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    Others will surprise you with their knowledge of current events.

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    Many of them offer amazing advice.

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    And yet, most of them still struggle to make a dent in the world.

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    Why is that?

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    Why do they fail to get their careers and businesses off the ground?

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    Part of the answer lies in our definition of intelligence.

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    We’ve grown accustomed to defining intelligence as a combination of high IQ and high EQ.

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    These are mostly inborn characteristics — which is convenient for us, since we can blame our

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    lack of success on bad luck.

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    Although there is some truth to that.

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    Research is piling up telling us that IQ is a “reasonable” predictor of financial

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    success.

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    However, as you very well know from your own life, that is not the entire truth, as there

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    are plenty of high IQ individuals who live modest lives, and plenty of wealthy people

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    who aren’t geniuses.

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    Recently, I’ve come across a video where a young Steve Jobs explains a key characteristic

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    of what he considers to be a smart person.

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    I expected to hear something along the lines of “thinking out of the box” and “unflinching

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    dedication.”

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    Instead, I discovered one of the most profound pieces of advice I’ve ever heard.

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    “A lot of [what it means to be smart] is the ability to zoom out, like you’re in

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    a city and you could look at the whole thing from the 80th floor down at the city.

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    And while other people are trying to figure out how to get from point A to point B reading

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    these stupid little maps, you could just see it in front of you.

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    You can see the whole thing.”

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    Jobs masterfully notes that smart people often make connections that seem obvious to them,

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    but perplexing to others — simply because they have developed the skill of “zooming

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    out” to get a better view of the big picture.

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    This, of course, sounds great and we can all agree that in order to change the world you

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    need to clearly see the world.

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    But how do you do that?

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    How do you increase your intelligence to become what Jobs considers to be a “smart” person?

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    According to the visionary — it’s all about having unique life experiences.

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    “You have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does, or else you’re gonna

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    make the same connections and you won’t be innovative.

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    […] You might want to think about going to Paris and being a poet for a few years.

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    Or you might want to go to a third-world country — I’d highly advise that.

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    Falling in love with two people at once.

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    Walt Disney took LSD, do you know that?”

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    It makes sense.

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    A 2015 study has concluded that openness to experience was the best predictor for “job

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    performance in situations requiring creativity,” which is every entrepreneur’s bread and

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    butter.

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    It’s also safe to say that any significant career step up will require a decisive innovative

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    move.

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    The study also found that extraversion “played a key role in contexts involving social interactions,”

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    which is hardly a surprise, but a healthy reminder nonetheless.

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    These findings tie in nicely with what Jobs said — people who are open to experience

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    and extroverted will seek out the most interesting, non-standard situations in life — and gain

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    invaluable perspectives as a result.

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    Jobs’ idea also helps explain why so many successful entrepreneurs are avid readers.

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    Divyank Turakhia, a 35-year old Indian tech billionaire, has once said that since the

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    age of 15 he has read for 800 hours a year, every year.

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    Tobias Lütke, Shopify’s billionaire founder, was described by Tim Ferriss as one of the

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    most aggressive readers he’d ever met.

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    It’s probably not the information itself that these leaders value about books, but

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    rather how they change their perspective.

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    On Ferriss’s podcast, Lütke went in-depth about the books that changed his life — carefully

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    describing each one of them.

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    Books are the easiest way for introverts to gather unique insights that shape their own

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    worldview.

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    They expand your mental horizons, so it makes sense that someone who’s read 100 classic

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    business books can spot a rising trend or a missed opportunity before anyone else.

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    As with most great pieces of advice, this idea by Steve Jobs prompted a “damn, he’s

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    right” moment in my head.

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    Some time ago, I did an exercise where I tried to recall the key turning points in my life.

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    After a while, I realized that it was never a “genius idea” or “an amazing realization”

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    that shaped my path — but people.

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    I’d meet someone.

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    I’d have my core assumptions challenged.

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    We’d do something together that I’d never think of doing on my own.

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    In the end, I’d be left with experiences and lessons that I never would’ve been able

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    to get just by my own intellectual effort.

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    Jobs himself was highly inspired by Buddhism, which he explored in his college years.

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    The Zen philosophy’s keywords — simplicity, empathy, and mindfulness — are not at all

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    alien to Apple’s products.

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    It’s not necessary to travel or take LSD to gather interesting experiences and form

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    a value-adding perspective of the world.

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    Your vehicle of choice could be reading, or devouring online courses.

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    Mine is meeting really interesting people and then getting to the bottom of who they

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    are.

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    But the rule of thumb is clear: if you want to be truly smart in today’s professional

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    world, you have to gather experiences that few others in your tribe have.

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    That’s how you learn to see things in a way that might be called visionary.

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Use "unflinching" in a sentence | "unflinching" example sentences

How to use "unflinching" in a sentence?

  • A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.
    -David Whyte-
  • Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.
    -Swami Vivekananda-
  • Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.
    -Rudyard Kipling-
  • Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.
    -George S. Clason-
  • Faith is unflinching trust in something divine.
    -A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada-
  • He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.
    -George Steiner-
  • An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.
    -Alfred North Whitehead-
  • Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.
    -Paramahansa Yogananda-

Definition and meaning of UNFLINCHING

What does "unflinching mean?"

/ˌənˈflin(t)SHiNG/

adjective
Not shrinking from danger.

What are synonyms of "unflinching"?
Some common synonyms of "unflinching" are:
  • resolute,
  • determined,
  • single-minded,
  • dogged,
  • decided,
  • resolved,
  • firm,
  • persistent,
  • persevering,
  • committed,
  • unshrinking,
  • unshakeable,
  • steady,
  • unwavering,
  • unblinking,

You can find detailed definitions of them on this page.

What are antonyms of "unflinching"?
Some common antonyms of "unflinching" are:
  • unsteady,
  • wavering,

You can find detailed definitions of them on this page.