Sublime

Robert Sternberg, the present-day guru of intelligence, writes that the major factor in whether people achieve expertise “is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.”

We are both “fallibilists,” to use a term that has been revived by Irish tech entrepreneur and Stripe CEO Patrick Collison. That means we’re also going to tell you about things you might think you know but that aren’t true. For instance, for a large swath of jobs, intelligence and IQ are far less important than many smart people believe.

In his compelling book on education, How Children Succeed, Paul Tough combined first-hand reporting from American schools with evidence from academic research to argue that we have overestimated the extent to which successful learning depends on intelligence, and underestimated the importance of ‘non-cognitive traits’ – put simply, character.

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intelligence is not one-dimensional,

In each case, a brilliant man put his company in jeopardy because measuring himself and his legacy outweighed everything else.

We are both “fallibilists,” to use a term that has been revived by Irish tech entrepreneur and Stripe CEO Patrick Collison. That means we’re also going to tell you about things you might think you know but that aren’t true. For instance, for a large swath of jobs, intelligence and IQ are far less important than many smart people believe.