It's official - Smarter people crumble easier under pressure

There are different types of intelligence. An A student does not have to be more intelligent than a C student just have diferent intelligence. Thats why a C student can be more succesful because may be his type of intelligence was more useful to him out of school.
But If you are a C student just because you are lazy odds are that you wont be more succesful than the A student. At least thats how I see it.
 
Forget people skills. When it comes to success....Bill Gates was a drunken party animal with a B or C avg. who dropped out to make some money and be his own boss.

Terry
 
I do believe there is probably some truth to this. A person who is constantly trying to analyze and rationalize, both characteristics that can be associated with "smarter people", will have a more difficult time performing under pressure than a person who doesn't have all that chatter going on in their head. That isn't to say that a "smarter person" can't quiet their mind, or a ... umm ... well, whatever you want to call the opposite of a "smarter person", can't be one of those people who are constantly analyzing and rationalizing but, in general, I think there is probably some degree of truth in what is being said here.

With that said, I must handle the pressure like a champ! :p
 
OldHasBeen said:
The majority of successful business people that control over 80% of the wealth in this country, graduated from college with no higher than a C average.

TY & GL
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... and the majority of the unsuccessful business people that control diddly-squat graduated from college with no higher than a C average too... I graduated with an A average (3.94 as I recall) and I am practicing my lines for a few years from now when I'm forced to retire because of age or incompetence ... "Would you like fries with that burger, sir?" Such is life.
 
Tbeaux said:
Forget people skills. When it comes to success....Bill Gates was a drunken party animal with a B or C avg. who dropped out to make some money and be his own boss.

Terry
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He wasn't a drunken party animal, but he did drop out to make money. And from all I understand his people skills suck, but he is smart as hell and ultra competitive.
 
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catscradle said:
He wasn't a drunken party animal, but he didn drop out to make money. And from all I understand his people skills suck, but he is smart as hell and ultra competitive.
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He didnt even INVENT microsoft yeah he put the company together but the OS was devoloped by IBM and they sold it to him cause they wanted to consintrate more on the hardware aspects! But I dont think we would even have that OS if it wasnt for him simply because IBM if they didnt sell it, it would probably still be sitting on thier shelves! Arent most people that are extremely intelligent generally introverts? I mean look at past people who excelled in thier general area I think the majority was introverted. Thus they lack the people skills.

EDIT--- Also I cant remember the price but it was very cheap I think it was around the 5-10k mark. Talk about a profit!!
 
Rackin_Zack said:
Well, the C average students out there that are uber successful aren't the ones that went to those various schools, or they got what they needed to get to get into said school and then got the C's. The point is that there are people out there that are uber successful that got C's not that all people who get C's are uber successful.
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Contrary to what a lot of people think, intelligent people have more successful and satisfying lives.

A long term study was done started in the late 50's and tracked randomly selected "intelligent" people and "normal" people over the very long term. The "intelligent" people were on average more successful economically and more satisfied with their lives. The stereotype of the maladjusted, unhappy brainiac is just wrong.

Of course, the possibility that the presence of the study effected the results, but I'm assuming that it was a blind if not double blind study.
 
Maybe it has nothing to do with how smart you are, just your choice in what you pursue in life. IQ tests are like anything else in life. If you did not give the tests the concentration required, how well will you score? If anyone tells me they scored low on their IQ test, I never assume that they are not smart. I come from a family of scholastic achievers. Dual majors in college in the math sciences with 3.8 and higher. Masters and Doctorates. Myself, very average. I do not like to rate or rank people because of their scholastic accomplishments. So in my mind this stuff doesn't count. IQ test are well overrated.

What does count is that some people who spent a lot of energy studying in school later took on positions in their career that also required much reading and analysis. Many never acquired the motor-imaging skills required to deal with things like pool. Problem solving was always formulas, analysis and theory application. Far removed from pool. So how can they deal with pressure of a game? Open text books? They need to develop the skills.

From a practical sense, most anything can be learned if important enough to you. This means dealing with pressure and playing pool also. In my opinion we are all on equal ground, it's simply a matter of acquiring the right skill set, which can be done.

I do not pay to much attention to statistics. I may have it wrong but it goes something like this. "What is analyzed as a sexy girl in a bathing suit may not be once the bathing suit is removed." Statistics.

My thoughts on this.
 
pete lafond said:
I come from a family of scholastic achievers. Dual majors in college in the math sciences with 3.8 and higher. Masters and Doctorates. Myself, very average.QUOTE]

So you're like the black sheep of the family??
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lukeinva said:
He didnt even INVENT microsoft yeah he put the company together but the OS was devoloped by IBM and they sold it to him cause they wanted to consintrate more on the hardware aspects! But I dont think we would even have that OS if it wasnt for him simply because IBM if they didnt sell it, it would probably still be sitting on thier shelves! Arent most people that are extremely intelligent generally introverts? I mean look at past people who excelled in thier general area I think the majority was introverted. Thus they lack the people skills.

EDIT--- Also I cant remember the price but it was very cheap I think it was around the 5-10k mark. Talk about a profit!!
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Actually neither Gates nor IBM created the OS that became DOS. See origins of dos . Gates bought the rights to it.
A very good book on how MS grew and IBM blew what should have been it's control of the PC platform is in the book Big Blues. It had a lot to do with internal competition in IBM, the big iron folks didn't want the PC folks moving in on their territory. The atmosphere of internal competition was fostered at the old IBM as a way to get the best out of everyone, it didn't work in this case.

As far as intelligent people being more introverted than less intelligent people, I think this is also a myth. The percentage of introverts and outgoing people among the intelligent is pretty much the same as among the less intelligent.
 
lukeinva said:
Arent most people that are extremely intelligent generally introverts? I mean look at past people who excelled in thier general area I think the majority was introverted. Thus they lack the people skills.
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Totally correct.
 
lukeinva said:
pete lafond said:
I come from a family of scholastic achievers. Dual majors in college in the math sciences with 3.8 and higher. Masters and Doctorates. Myself, very average.QUOTE]

So you're like the black sheep of the family??
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I did just did not have the concentration my brothers and sisters had. They did well because they loved studying like some of us love pool. This is why I believe we should forget evaluating people on how smart they are or how smart we think they are not. Everyone has their own developed skills and many have new skills just waiting to be acquired.
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catscradle said:
Actually neither Gates nor IBM created the OS that became DOS. See origins of dos . Gates bought the rights to it.
A very good book on how MS grew and IBM blew what should have been it's control of the PC platform is in the book Big Blues. It had a lot to do with internal competition in IBM, the big iron folks didn't want the PC folks moving in on their territory. The atmosphere of internal competition was fostered at the old IBM as a way to get the best out of everyone, it didn't work in this case.

As far as intelligent people being more introverted than less intelligent people, I think this is also a myth. The percentage of introverts and outgoing people among the intelligent is pretty much the same as among the less intelligent.
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Gates never paid for ownership of DOS until he received payment from IBM first, as I recall. Not important, just interesting.
 
LOL I'm hoping nobody took that article seriously...there are so many problems with the experiment itself and how they interpreted the results

peace
-egg
 
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