Hard work will always beat intelligence, only if intelligence doesn't work hard enough. And this is a good thing. Most intelligent people don't work hard enough, they become complacent and feel entitled in their own bubble of superiority.
Both smart and hard work require a strong work ethic and a commitment to quality. But smart work allows you to complete more daily tasks, so you can either go home early or move to a new task quicker.
Practicing a new and challenging activity is a good bet for building and maintaining cognitive skills. Your brain has the ability to learn and grow as you age — a process called brain plasticity — but for it to do so, you have to train it on a regular basis.
Yes hard work and preseverance can beat intelligence and genius. Because “Hardwork beats success when success doesn't work hard.
A recent study published in The Independent suggests that less active individuals, “the lazy,” might be more brainy than those who are constantly active: “Findings from a U.S-based study seem to support the idea that people with a high IQ get bored less easily, leading them to spend more time engaged in thought…
Smart people get bored easily.
Some types of success stem from creativity, but other types come from becoming an expert in a niche and performing a set of behaviors repeatedly. If you're smart, curious, and have a love of learning, you might find you quickly lose interest in anything once you've figured it out.
Smart people also tend to be averse to failure, having a tendency to see failure as a sign of weakness or that something is wrong with them. The pressure is high to perform. And if life is not unfolding the way they want, smart people get super self-critical and the pressure to “get it right” gets even higher.
Hard-Working Characteristics
Punctuality and dependability. Initiative and flexibility. Motivation and priorities. Learning and self-reliance.
The key to greater productivity is to work smarter, not harder. Working smarter saves precious time and energy for the things that really matter—your life goals, your personal growth, your health, and your relationships.
Working on a task that a person deems worthwhile or beneficial promotes feelings of satisfaction, which in term drives up happiness, the study found.
Yes, it's true: New research says that introverts could have a higher IQ. Think you're a genius? Take this Mensa quiz to find out. Generally speaking, the more often people socialize with friends, the happier they feel.
Research has shown that there is a high correlation between being intelligent and socially anxious. The higher your IQ, the higher the chance your social apprehension is higher than usual. Of course, that doesn't mean that your social anxiety should be classified as a disorder.
Key points. High-IQ people often experience social isolation, which can lead to depression or make them act more introverted than is their nature. The very intelligent know they're intelligent, so they're prone to setting lofty expectations for themselves that they can't meet.
This isn't necessarily true, and while not all quiet people are necessarily smart, highly intelligent people will often refrain from speaking if they are accessing a situation. They will take some time to think about what was said and prepare an adequate response, and they find silence better than pointless small talk.
MIT Study. Neuroscientists find that different parts of the brain work best at different ages. Scientists have long known that our ability to think quickly and recall information, also known as fluid intelligence, peaks around age 20 and then begins a slow decline.
For highly intelligent people, whilst they are most interested in finding solutions for real-life problems, they also enjoy pondering deep philosophical ideas and abstract concepts. From a young age, they have an insatiable curiosity about life; They thrive on learning.
Although science is on the fence about whether you can raise your IQ or not, research does seem to suggest that it's possible to raise your intelligence through certain brain-training activities. Training your memory, executive control, and visuospatial reasoning can help to boost your intelligence levels.
Intelligence quotient is determined by a number of factors which include both genetic as well as non genetic factors. Even though genetic factors play the major role in determining IQ, various other modifiable environmental influences can influence the IQ of an individual.
Like most aspects of human behavior and cognition, intelligence is a complex trait that is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors.
A) Both born and made. You can't become a genius without a tremendous amount of work. You have to acquire sufficient expertise in an achievement domain to know what you're talking about or what you're doing.
They are also less likely to be happy because they need more help with skills of daily living, have poorer health and report more symptoms of psychological distress. So, never say you're too smart to be happy. (I know someone who says that all the time; it's a definite humblebrag.)