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| Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by TheArbiter: 11:52am On May 10, 2012 |
Albert Einstein’s was estimated at 160, Madonna’s is 140, and John F. Kennedy’s was only 119, but as it turns out, your IQ score pales in comparison with your EQ, MQ, and BQ scores when it comes to predicting your success and professional achievement. IQ tests are used as an indicator of logical reasoning ability and technical intelligence. A high IQ is often a prerequisite for rising to the top ranks of business today. It is necessary, but it is not adequate to predict executive competence and corporate success. By itself, a high IQ does not guarantee that you will stand out and rise above everyone else. Research carried out by the Carnegie Institute of Technology shows that 85 percent of your financial success is due to skills in “human engineering,” your personality and ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead. Shockingly, only 15 percent is due to technical knowledge. Additionally, Nobel Prize winning Israeli-American psychologist, Daniel Kahneman, found that people would rather do business with a person they like and trust rather than someone they don’t, even if the likeable person is offering a lower quality product or service at a higher price. With this in mind, instead of exclusively focusing on your conventional intelligence quotient, you should make an investment in strengthening your EQ (Emotional Intelligence), MQ (Moral Intelligence), and BQ (Body Intelligence). These concepts may be elusive and difficult to measure, but their significance is far greater than IQ. Emotional Intelligence EQ is the most well known of the three, and in brief it is about: being aware of your own feelings and those of others, regulating these feelings in yourself and others, using emotions that are appropriate to the situation, self-motivation, and building relationships. Top Tip for Improvement: First, become aware of your inner dialogue. It helps to keep a journal of what thoughts fill your mind during the day. Stress can be a huge killer of emotional intelligence, so you also need to develop healthy coping techniques that can effectively and quickly reduce stress in a volatile situation. Moral Intelligence MQ directly follows EQ as it deals with your integrity, responsibility, sympathy, and forgiveness. The way you treat yourself is the way other people will treat you. Keeping commitments, maintaining your integrity, and being honest are crucial to moral intelligence. Top Tip for Improvement: Make fewer excuses and take responsibility for your actions. Avoid little white lies. Show sympathy and communicate respect to others. Practice acceptance and show tolerance of other people’s shortcomings. Forgiveness is not just about how we relate to others; it’s also how you relate to and feel about yourself. Body Intelligence Lastly, there is your BQ, or body intelligence, which reflects what you know about your body, how you feel about it, and take care of it. Your body is constantly telling you things; are you listening to the signals or ignoring them? Are you eating energy-giving or energy-draining foods on a daily basis? Are you getting enough rest? Do you exercise and take care of your body? It may seem like these matters are unrelated to business performance, but your body intelligence absolutely affects your work because it largely determines your feelings, thoughts, self-confidence, state of mind, and energy level. Top Tip For Improvement: At least once a day, listen to the messages your body is sending you about your health. Actively monitor these signals instead of going on autopilot. Good nutrition, regular exercise, and adequate rest are all key aspects of having a high BQ. Monitoring your weight, practicing moderation with alcohol, and making sure you have down time can dramatically benefit the functioning of your brain and the way you perform at work. What You Really Need To Succeed It doesn’t matter if you did not receive the best academic training from a top university. A person with less education who has fully developed their EQ, MQ, and BQ can be far more successful than a person with an impressive education who falls short in these other categories. Yes, it is certainly good to be an intelligent, rational thinker and have a high IQ; this is an important asset. But you must realize that it is not enough. Your IQ will help you personally, but EQ, MQ, and BQ will benefit everyone around you as well. If you can master the complexities of these unique and often under-rated forms of intelligence, research tells us you will achieve greater success and be regarded as more professionally competent and capable. By Keld Jensen Story link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/keldjensen/2012/04/12/intelligence-is-overrated-what-you-really-need-to-succeed/ 9 Likes |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by Nobody: 5:21pm On May 10, 2012 |
Another excuse to remain stupid and dumb! |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by nasty45(m): 5:22pm On May 10, 2012 |
AGREED engineerd: Another excuse to remain stupid and dumb! |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by dayokanu(m): 5:24pm On May 10, 2012 |
Whats the summary? It pays to be dumb |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by yuzedo: 5:28pm On May 10, 2012 |
**Now tearing my LBS form**  1 Like |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by Nobody: 5:32pm On May 10, 2012 |
VERY VERY EDUCATIVE AND ENLIGHTENING! THANK YOU VERY MUCH POSTER!  |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by blackboi(m): 5:48pm On May 10, 2012 |
So true! The African American rapper, Sauce Kid failed the MTV IQ Quiz despite his high level of exposure and quality education bkg. Now u knw... |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by Eminentsam(m): 5:52pm On May 10, 2012 |
The Arbiter: Albert Einstein’s was estimated at 160, Madonna’s is 140, and John F. Kennedy’s was only 119, but as it turns out, your IQ score pales in comparison with your EQ, MQ, and BQ scores when it comes to predicting your success and professional achievement. |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by suolboy(m): 6:20pm On May 10, 2012 |
Very educating piece there. I don't what is wrong with some people in this nland. They just want to hear about bomb blast and then blast Jona. Here ia a good and educative piece which some cannot even come up with, yet there comments are thrash. @Poster, u tried. 1 Like |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by OnlyRebel: 6:34pm On May 10, 2012 |
Of course not. People with high IQ(geniuses)are easily spoted because of the extraordinary and array of works with undisputable radiance of uniquness they achieve. Again, these people are no doubt a glow of intelligence because they are rare among humans. Moreover, people with above average IQ(smart people) need a show of consistency in hardwork and fine attitude to be distinguished. The hardwork, resillence and its like are found wanting among most of the smart ones. The reason most of them never live their dream. Against the geniuses who always dream and live in their world devoid of riches and affluence, the world of flowing intelligence that can't be overshadow. They too(the geniuses) need hardwork, but the bulk of this is done for them by the smarts. The case of Lewis Latimer and Thomas Edison; I believe Latimer is the genius while Edison is the smart guy. |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by elQris1(m): 6:49pm On May 10, 2012 |
Really enjoy the piece but am wondering,what special thing did Madonna do with her high IQ  ?2 Likes |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by Nobody: 6:58pm On May 10, 2012 |
Why do a lot of Nairalanders hate reading? The first series of replies on this thread clearly showed that the posters did not read the OP before rushing to post a [i]s[/i]tupid reply. @topic, Of course. I never believed that the definition of intelligence should be restricted to mental processes only. 1 Like |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by OnlyRebel: 7:05pm On May 10, 2012 |
el_Qris: Really enjoy the piece but am wondering,what special thing did Madonna do with her high IQ Madonna attended Rochester Adams High School where she became a straight-A student and a member of the cheerleading squad.After graduating, she received a dance scholarship to the University of Michigan. Madonna is an American singer, songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. She has sold more than 300 million records worldwide and is recognized as the world's top-selling female recording artist of all time by Guinness World Records. Considered to be one of the "25 Most Powerful Women of the Past Century" by Time for being an influential figure in contemporary music, she is known for continuously reinventing both her music and image, and for retaining a standard of autonomy within the recording industry. Critics have praised her diverse musical productions which have also served as a lightning rod for controversy. 3 Likes |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by Nobody: 7:08pm On May 10, 2012 |
Interesting topic. Party true. From my experience, the lines between IQ and EQ are a bit blurred, especially when you're talking about overrall intelligence. That's why, for instance, you hear some people say stuff like. . ."I know say I no sabi book oh, but I sharp die", or that "he is quite intelligent academically, but hands on he is not so useful". It's all neither here nor there. However, I think one needs a bit of both IQ or EQ to be successful. Forget the so-called MQ or BQ, they're not so relevant in the real world. The only problem is that real IQ or EQ is not always measurable. That's why all kinds of people are successful, just as all kinds of people are failures. There are many people with seemingly high IQ and EQ that are failures, just as there are so many people with noticeably low IQ and/or EQ that happen to be successful. That's life, it is unfair and it has no rules. Sadly, in most cases, matters of success or failure have little or nothing to do with IQ or EQ, but much to do with good old destiny (believe it or not). Even the Bible says that bread does not necessarily come to the wise. Just as the swiftest does not necessarily win the race, nor does the strongest win the battle. . .rather, time and chance rules them all. In any case, knowing the kind of world we live in, the perversity of human nature, and the hateful disdain most people have for individuals that are superior to them intellectually, I would always choose EQ over IQ as a more important factor for success. Especially because these days, success depends more on what you make others do for you rather than what you are able to do for yourself - more so in societies like Nigeria where meritocracy is an alien concept. 3 Likes |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by ArQueBusieR(m): 7:09pm On May 10, 2012 |
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| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by Kockane(m): 7:09pm On May 10, 2012 |
Body Intelligence *scoffs* Gimme a break puleez! Of wat use is body intelligence wen you have a low IQ? Rubbish! |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by OnlyRebel: 7:11pm On May 10, 2012 |
I always get dazed with wonder that many Nigerian youths find it difficult engaging in intellectual discurse. It this thread is tribal, by now NL cuber-knights would have pussed the battle to ring 100 (100 page I mean). Sorry for our education system. |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by OnlyRebel: 7:22pm On May 10, 2012 |
pro01: Interesting topic. Party true. From my experience, the lines between IQ and EQ are a bit blurred, especially when you're talking about overral intelligence. That's why, for instance, you hear some people say stuff like. . ."I no say I no sabi book oh, but I sharp die", or that "he is quite intelligent academically, but hands on he is not so useful". It's all neither here nor there. Good reply you have here. But come to think of this, how can an EQ be relevant in the absence of IQ either low or high. I believe while high IQ individuals command followership by default, low and above average IQ persons need hardwork and good attitude to climb the ladder of success. |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by scribble: 7:48pm On May 10, 2012 |
Arunma Oteh did not need to consult her senior management staff at SEC in order to unilaterally approve a N 500 billion AMCON bond. Is this because she is some sort of Amazon Wonderwoman? No, she has a degree from Harvard! The House Committee’s investigation unraveled deep insight into the lackluster management style of Ms. Oteh. For instance how she bypassed her senior management team in everything from hiring contract workers to a N 500 billion AMCON Bond Approval. The pinnacle of business education is seen as the acquisition of a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts. Across Corporate Nigeria, you will undoubtedly run into Nigerian returnees from the USA who speak with fluent American accents and are armed with professional experience from abroad as well as the golden Harvard MBA. It has been common practice for senior Nigerian politicians to hire Harvard certificate holders as it is thought that such individuals possess a magic touch. One thing we can all agree on is they know how to make a presentation. Arunma Oteh, embattled Director Genera of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is a product of Harvard. At the ongoing House Committee on the NEar Collapse of the Capital Markets, part of what we learned is that she knows how to make a presentation. Mrs. Daisy Ekinah, a SEC commissioner with over thirty years working experience revealed that Ms. Oteh, upon her resumption as SEC boss, made a presentation on “Roadmap to a World Class Capital Market” at the Nigerian Economic Summit Group in 2008. The presentation was fabulous, however that was the last everyone in the SEC management team ever heard of it again. Harvard MBA’s or maybe it is female Harvard MBA’s working in Nigeria seem to have serious personality crises. Whilst they may be intelligent and book-smart, they lack the inter-personal communication skills required to motivate personnel, clients and other stakeholders. The only inter-personal skills they deem necessary to work on are their business development or marketing skills. These type of skills are vital to bring in money, however once the money comes in, they become even temperamental and distant from their clients. Ms. Oteh has displayed flashes of arrogance in the past, one would think to describe as flashes of righteous indignation concerning the allegations she levelled against Hon. Herman Hembe. However when one considers the fact that even senior management staff at the SEC are seriously disillusioned with her leadership style, calling it ‘selfish’, ‘dishonest’ and ‘singular’ in not so many words. Then one begins to see a woman who has serious character issues, but hides behind the ‘brilliance of a Harvard MBA’, in hopes the brilliant light will dull everyone else into believing she possesses something special. Surely, it wasn’t the good professors at Harvard who taught Ms. Oteh that management meetings are best held via email and text messages. According to Ekineh, ““There is a dysfunction in SEC, because we no longer work together as a team. There is also absence of respect and team spirit. During the time of the last two DGs, we used to hold meetings in their office regularly. This helped a lot, especially in bringing unity and cohesion to our activities, while helping us achieve more. “Today, we hardly hold meetings and face-to-face interactions; instead, meetings have been replaced with text messages and emails. I am not saying text messages and emails are bad, but it should not make us do away with meetings and face-to-face interactions.” Ms. Oteh has been working with these people for close to 4 years or more, could she not tell they were dissatisfied or is it an underlying selfish nature that allowed her to harden her heart to the feelings of individuals who have served their country for a much longer period than Ms. Oteh whose Harvard MBA magically lifted her into the position of power? Whatever the case may be, it is glaring that as a nation we sell our own institutions short. There is good reason for this, as many of our institutions are nothing to write Harvard about. However in the same sentence, some of these Harvard graduates are nothing to write our institutions about. To think Ms. Oteh with all her Harvard qualifications and such, could mismanage an institution like SEC to the extent that ALL her management staff are disgruntled. Where is the cohesion? How can a regulator whose duty is to build trust and integrity in the markets not have the trust of her board room? We shoot ourselves in the foot over and over again in Nigeria. We keep putting these foreign talents ahead of our own deep talent pool and the fact is relationship, character and integrity are more important than certificates. Next time you see Harvard on a CV or presentation, take your time to assess the character and values of such individuals before handing them the keys to the kingdom. 4 Likes |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by ektbear: 8:04pm On May 10, 2012 |
It depends on what your objectives are. Obviously if you want to be successful in some career where your competitors are brainy, then you need to be intelligent. However, if success at your career choice depends on some other ability (physical strength/speed for a professional athlete, attractiveness for a model, etc), then indeed intelligence probably isn't that important. It honestly depends on what you are trying to do. 1 Like |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by Henry40: 8:05pm On May 10, 2012 |
Whoever wrote this article for Forbes must be on crack! How do you measure EQ, MQ, and BQ? Does he even know what an IQ is? IQ/Intelligence Quotient is evaluated by dividing mental age by the actual, chronological age of the person taking the test, and then multiplying it by 100 to get rid of the decimal point. A "Mental Age" is measured by giving the person in question a series of tests normally meant for a different age grade, and evaluating the person afterwords. For example, if a 6-year-old girl scored a mental age of 9, she would be assigned an IQ of 150 (9/6 × 100). If a 12-year-old boy scored a mental age of 6, he would be given an IQ of 50 (6/12 × 100). The IQ score, as originally computed, expresses a person’s mental age relative to his or her chronological age. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2011. © 1993-2010 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Here, you have a writer saying: Research carried out by the Carnegie Institute of Technology shows that 85 percent of your financial success is due to skills in “human engineering,” your personality and ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead. Shockingly, only 15 percent is due to technical knowledge. What an i d i o t he must be!! Do you think IQ has anything to do with "Knowlege"? It's about the way your brain works. Is your brain older or younger than you?? |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by stkris(m): 8:06pm On May 10, 2012 |
To answer the topic question: NO. NO, intelligence is not overrated. However, the yardstick in determining intelligence is what needs not be defined or confined. Einstein said it best: “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” 1 Like |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by Havilah93(m): 8:48pm On May 10, 2012 |
finally, some educative piece on the fp |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by Nobody: 9:02pm On May 10, 2012 |
All these dudes with their intelligence stuff yet fall mugu for yahoo boys.i wish Einstein was alive. |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by SNCOQ3(m): 9:30pm On May 10, 2012 |
Another "Excuse Pyschology" on the loose. Partitioning Human Intelligence into 4 distinct part is a Psychological Model in error. What is MQ BQ EQ?? Scientist/Psychologist are yet to understand how the human brain works hence, many confusing models. The result of this "research" is nothing but a conjecture built on a faulty premise; That is why they keep measuring human intelligence quantitatively like a digital machine. 1 Like |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by bakila: 10:59pm On May 10, 2012 |
So true apart from Intelligence, there is need to have the right atitude towards other, oneself and the whole community of where the intelligence will be unleashed. Over reliance on paper qualification though has made a test of intelligence difficult. |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by Carlmax(m): 11:19pm On May 10, 2012 |
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| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by ifihearam: 11:36pm On May 10, 2012 |
@poster, We have proffessors with high IQ,EQ or wot have you but yet fall victim to some small naija boys who dnt even have SSCE result,how do you explain this please Am waiting for an explanation frm anyone in the house. |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by Nobody: 11:51pm On May 10, 2012 |
suolboy: Very educating piece there. I don't what is wrong with some people in this nland. They just want to hear about bomb blast and then blast Jona. Here ia a good and educative piece which some cannot even come up with, yet there comments are thrash.and of what use is it to you? As one poster ealier stated... Just a nice excuse to remain dumb |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by chucky234(m): 12:24am On May 11, 2012 |
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| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by Nobody: 12:26am On May 11, 2012 |
This is the pure reason why the world will ever remain biased. If certain part of human intelligence is based on how you relate with other in a business rather being innovative and creative then, certain group of people are discriminated against based on emotion even at the expense of risk. If a Chinese man for example can provide a better product being a stranger would be of better accessement, use, rewarding and in than following sentiments based intelligence that can lead to risk and danger. I can see who this psychological issue bring out something we see everyday in our society to the detriment of who we are only familiar in business. It is right to take the risk based on good product than taking a risk on some familiar bad product. This issue still boils down to discrimination and how the society has played down on intelligence, which though is overrated, to the failure of parts which could have be more effective. i personally, don't believe in sentiments or whatever kind of emotion idea of intelligence, most especially, in the area of doing business. You can see why business fail in many society. If considering what we were told that there is no sentiment in business it means the just scores another dangerous part of human thought, doing thing by hearts. It would have be taking of the ground of reasoning to see this intelligence thing as well exhibited by human whereas the opposite is often the case. Don't tell the reason why this human business owned by group of people are so tied to risks and failure is the inability to exercise the more obvious IQ of reasoning before acting that rightly falls into the top of the list. IQ is an individual thing and judging activities on it with emotion,moral and body is just a failure on the side of those practicing such intelligence. Believe it or not, humans are not as intelligence as purported. The fact that some have being able to use the things available in nature to solve daily issue is not an excuse to think it is the ultimate looking at those three forms of intelligence among others is like following instinct which animals in the bush can as well do. I have been address intelligence from the human perspective but we have find out that in nature intelligence is limited that sometime it becomes speculative when it can not go beyond explanation. So it is an ability stimulated by any individual to solve problems and yet there are animals who can ever do better in so avenue making intelligence receptive to factor with nature. On one hand, nature being full of incomplete and imperfect activities we see that intelligence is limited and overrate. On the other it is better to resort to activities that show intelligence than following emotions, instinct and guess works like the religionists/theists would like things to be treated. The whole emotional, moral and body intelligence emanated from the traditional believe within the human society and also close to the religionists ways of treating things. On the final note, it is noted that those three among many other ways of exercising intelligence are not what makes intelligence seemed overrated because it is a failure on the side of many individuals not all individuals. Yet, intelligence is overrated in some ways and it is really needs to be well redefined. |
| Re: Is Intelligence Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed by chucky234(m): 12:35am On May 11, 2012 |
ifihearam: @poster,Because those naija boys (yahoo boys) communicates with templates or ready-made write-ups saved in their draft folders,those boys without SSCE as you claimed dont know the difference between a clause and phrase,verbs and adverbs,figures of speech and parts of speech and lack mechanical accuracy or a simple sentence construction. Give yourself life and think reasonably for once, your mumu go last. |
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