Let's rephrase.. how intelligence is related to success. Is there a linear, direct relationship between success and intelligence?
To answer the main question, I can say YES!
And in order not to waste your and my time in a long essay, I prefer to refer to "Forrest Gump" -the Hollywood movie-, it says all that I want to say in a better and more interesting way.
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But we need to discuss some issues.
The term “Intelligence” is some stupid in fact, whenever we use this term, we always mean the one’s analytical skills. But this is not right.
Your analytical, numerical, logical, etc skills can make you a good researcher or scientist.. but it won’t help you be a good football player, writer, actor, or manager. So, it is better to start thinking of different types of intelligence. According to the theory of multiple intelligences developed by Howard Gardner; human beings have about ten types or forms of intelligence like musical, visual, logical, bodily, interpersonal, intrapersonal, verbal, and others.
So an athlete should be bodily intelligent, while a writer should be verbally and logically intelligent and so on.
So anyone can be successful providing that he is making use of his strength points.. Someone with high bodily intelligence and low logical intelligence will find it very hard make any progress in scientific careers, while it is much easier for him to find his way as an athlete.
This is the same idea that Gallup and Tom Rath introduced in the book “Strengths Finder 2.0”. It is simply that you should work in your strength points, enhance them, strengthen them more and more, and don’t lose your time and energy trying to improve points you are not talented at.
A good example for that is to think of Richard Feynman and Maradona. What if Maradona tried to be a physicist instead of playing football, and Feynman played football instead of studying physics?
The answer is very easy. They would have failed, or make no noticeable success.
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