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How the Ivy League Broke America
Social engineers
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
Being smart doesn’t mean that you’re willing to try on alternative viewpoints, or that you’re comfortable with uncertainty, or that you can recognize your own mistakes. It doesn’t mean you have insight into your own biases. In fact, one thing that high-IQ people might genuinely be better at than other people is convincing themselves that their own ... See more
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
Researchers at the University of Chicago and Stanford measured America’s economic growth per person from 1960 to 2010 and concluded that up to two-fifths of America’s increased prosperity during that time can be explained by better identification and allocation of talent.
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
Possessing agility helps you make good judgments in real time. The neuroscientist John Coates used to be a financial trader. During the bull-market surges that preceded big crashes, Coates noticed that the traders who went on to suffer huge losses had gotten overconfident in ways that were physically observable. They flexed their muscles and even w... See more
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
I recongise when I have gotten a win, I become more confident (no surprise there). But also I’ve been told by others I’m acting cocky.
Is this true? I don’t think it is, because I lack confidence and self esteem normally. I feel it’s not something people are used to seeing.
But if they are right, then John Coates’ observation will serve as a reminder to pay more attention to my mind and body, not just when I feel low/sad, but also when I feel strong, confident which could possibly mean I’m overconfident and could affect my next moves.
the Marshall Plan
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
Data are good for measuring things, but for truly knowing people, stories are better. In an ideal world, high-school teachers, guidance counselors, and coaches would collaborate each year on, say, a five-page narrative about each student’s life. Some schools do this now, to great effect.
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
Talent and even effort cannot, as the UCLA Law School professor Joseph Fishkin has observed, “be isolated from circumstances of birth.”
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
Intelligence is not the same as effectiveness.
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
Mehta and Fine profiled one high school in a network of 14 project-based charter schools serving more than 5,000 students. The students are drawn by lottery, representing all social groups. They do not sit in rows taking notes. Rather, grouped into teams of 50, they work together on complicated interdisciplinary projects. Teachers serve as coaches ... See more