Quote: (10-19-2016 03:32 AM)H1N1 Wrote:
Richard Feynman allegedly had an IQ of 125. It's obviously nonsense, such a test wouldn't be worth the paper it was written on. It did make me chuckle to think there might be people out there walking around claiming to be smarter than a guy like that just because their number was higher than his.
IQ falls with age. If he tested it in his 60s, then 125 is not bad. His mind in respect to his field would still be significant, because the thinking prowess in your field is retained. The height of IQ is reached in your teens and he might have been at 150 at that time (with a test that maxes out at 155 - there are other tests that are unlimited almost, so comparing anyone above 130 has to be taken into account based on those tests - also you gotta test in the ages of 15-20 or you get partly significantly lower results).
Besides - IQ increases over the generations with correct nutrient dense food-supplements during pregnancy, lack of toxins, lack of vaccines, lack of fluoride in the water etc. My bet is that IQ can increase 10-20% with each generation if the woman is kept toxin-free and stuffed with supplements until childbirth (even alcohol consumption before the first child leaves an impact since alcohol permeates all cells including unused eggs). Besides - not marrying your family and selecting your mate k-selected aids too.
IQ can help you get rich, but it is not the main determining factor of success.
In my own opinion - those are the factors of success when assuming that success is a rise into a higher economic level than you have been born into:
1.
Mental patterns -
a) correct ones that tell you that
anyone can succeed if he works hard - can be seen with Chinese, Japanese, Sikhs, protestants who have these views ingrained by their families
b)
simple belief in your own success - easy to see when you are from a wealthy family and see your own father/grandfather/uncles make it - being born into money at first gives you that full conviction that you can make it too since you have seen your dad do stupid stuff and fart in his chair
2.
Perseverence & hard work
A 100 IQ guy can become a doctor if he keeps on studying. He will not become a reknown scientists and the best one on the block. But if he perseveres, then he will finish the course. It may take him longer to learn things than his 125-IQ peers, but it will not matter. In the end if he for example becomes a pediatrician he can make 150-200k in his practice. Simple work ethics. The same can be said in other careers - a solid plumber with his own business or strong work ethic can make 70-120k - picking a good profession and working on it can pay off easily enough.
3.
Risk taking and creativity
a) the ability to take the correct kinds of risks is invaluable. Some of the advantages of born-in-money people is that they take greater risks. I know several such men whose fathers were millionaires and they took a larger credit based on own income and then made it big. What I did not realize back then is that even such a more risky attitude is based on your own family. Even if the first project would not have made it, then the family would have bailed them out. So essentially risk taking is 100 times more likely if you are born rich. Other folk have to truly risk it all.
b) creativity is connected to intelligence but not directly - a great example would be men and women - men take far greater risks and are usually far more creative even if they have the same IQ -
both factors - risk taking and creativity is way more male centric, thus you will continue to see more inventors and businessmen to be male - that is how the cookie crumbles feminist tarts
4)
Intelligence:
Yup - the better and faster your mind works, the better you can use it to make it big - unless you do not have the points of correct mental attitude, perseverance, creativity and correct risk taking going for you - then your high IQ is best served in fixed patterns of becoming a well-paid employee. Due to your high IQ you will still succeed. But even becoming a professor or scientists you need some degree of perseverence especially since if you are too high in IQ, you may get bored in college - many MENSA folk have that problem and do not finish university.
So there you go gents.
All factors above can be improved including intelligence inter-generationally (your own sons and daughters can have a higher one).