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“If you think your IQ is 160 but it’s 150, you’re a disaster. It’s much better to have a 130 IQ and think it’s 120.”
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Keith Stanovich, aprofessor of psychology, likes to distinguish between intelligence quotient (IQ), which measures mentalskills that are real and helpful in cognitive tasks, and rationality quotient (RQ), the ability to make gooddecisions. His claim is that the overlap between these abilities is much lower than most people think.
Dan Callahan • Reflections on the Ten Attributes of Great Investors


The physicist and science writer Leonard Mlodinow puts the point more broadly. “While IQ scores may correlate to cognitive ability,” he writes in Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking, “control over and knowledge of one’s emotional state is what is most important for professional and personal success.”
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
you may be blessed with very high IQ scores. If you really are to succeed in business, it won’t be because people think you are smart; it will be because people like you.