IQ has consistently been a key factor in achieving success throughout your life. But intelligence is not enough to make your way in the world better. According to a new study it is your personality - the best driver.
This study comes from the American newspaper "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" and has been highlighted recently by Faye Flam in Bloomberg. A research team, including Nobel Prize winner James Heckman, combined with international data found that IQ alone did not do much to predict financial success or academic achievement.
If you do well on a test, it's not just intelligence that made you score high, but your capacity to plan. To excel in a new job, you need "non-cognitive skills" such as the ability to collaborate, get to work on time or send clear and well-thought-out emails.
This is hopeful news, say the authors. "For example, personality or non-cognitive abilities are more present at later ages than IQ, and there are effective interventions in adolescence that promote personality, but have little success in increasing IQ," they write.
How to say, it is better to teach children to meditate instead of punishing them all the time for the mistakes they make.
