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Successful Intelligence
How Practical and Creative Intelligence Determines Success in Life
By Robert J. Sternberg
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303 Pages, Simon & Schuster
Date: 1996
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Opinion of the webmaster, subject to debate |
provides a number of insights into precisely what makes a person
"smart", and how to meaure it. IQ tests, ever popular with our
society, turn out to do a rather poor job. It seems that "intelligence",
whatever that is, is much more difficult to assess that you would
think. Perhaps it's like pornography, "Ah knows it whens I sees it".
Silverberg does a good job of analyzing it all, in a readable manner.
He touches on creativity quite often, and provides a lot of ways to
increase the level of creativity (in terms of problem solving, that is),
that you already have.
-- tm
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From the Book Cover
"Successfully intelligent people realize that no one is good at everything.
Einstein wasn't. Lincoln wasn't. Da Vinci wasn't. Galileo wasn't. The idea
that there is a general factor of intelligence that can be measured by IQ and
similar tests is a myth that is supported only because the range of abilities they
measure is narrow. Once you expand the range of abilities that are measured,
the general IQ factor disappears.
"Successful intelligence is the kind of intelligence used to achieve
important goals. People who succeed, whether by their own standards or by
other people's, are those who have managed to acquire, develop, and apply a
full range of intellectual skills, rather than merely relying on the 'inert'
intelligence that schools so value. These individuals may or may not succeed on
conventional tests, but they have something in common that is much more
important than high test scores. They know their strengths; they know their
weaknesses. They capitalize on their strengths; they compensate for or correct
their weaknesses. That's it."
-- --FROM SUCCESSFUL INTELLIGENCE
From one of the nation's foremost intelligence experts
comes a far-ranging book that is destined to have a
profound influence on the way we think about aptitude and
intelligence. In Successful Intelligence, the award-winning
scientist and Yale professor Robert J. Sternberg argues that
the best predictors of success in the real world are creative
and practical intelligence. Using original research
conducted over decades, Sternberg shows why these specific
mental skills (and not the academic thinking measured by
IQ tests) are the key to achieving life's most important
goals, whether in business. the professions, the arts, or
other areas of endeavor.
Successful intelligence, Sternberg maintains, differs
from IQ (which involves academic achievement) or
emotional intelligence (which involves the sort of thinking
most relevant to personal relationships). it requires ability
with three kinds of thinking: creative, practical, and analytic.
People who possess successful intelligence are
"smart" at achieving: they know how to make the most of
what they do well and how to find ways to work around
their limitations. Motivated, controlled, persevering, and
independent, these are the people who know how to get
ahead. And most heartening of all, Sternberg reveals,
successful intelligence is measurable and can be developed.
Among the book's major revelations:
- Creative and practical intelligence are distinct from and
independent of lQ. In other words, someone can be
highly intelligent (creatively and/or practically) but have
a relatively average IQ. Similarly, many people with
high IQs are middling in creative and practical intelligence.
- Practical intelligence predicts on-the-job performance
better than does IQ for business managers, salespeople,
and even college teachers--the three occupations studied
in Sternberg's original research.
- There are specific ways to develop practical and creative
intelligence, which you can use to enhance your own
success.
- Successful intelligence can be activated, and studies
show how accomplished people make it work for them.
- Members of various ethnic groups, such as blacks and
Hispanics, who typically do not do as well as whites on
tests of academic intelligence compete quite successfully
in tests of creative and practical intelligence.
- Creative performance requires not only creative
intelligence but key personality attributes as well, especially
the willingness to take risks and to overcome obstacles.
- The correlation between IQ and occupational status is
not a fact of nature: society has created it by requiring
IQ-like tests (SATs, GREs, LSATs, GMATs, MCATs,
etc.) for admission to higher education.
Filled with practical examples of the kinds of thinking
skills that bring about action-oriented goals, Successful
Intelligence is a book for everyone concerned with what it
takes to get ahead--employers, parents, teachers, and
especially all those who want to maximize their strengths
and succeed.
Table of Contents
Preface
PART I
What Counts? IQ, Intelligence, or Successful Intelligence?
- 1. Beyond IQ to Successful Intelligence
PART II
People Count IQ, but IQ Doesn't Count
- 2. What IQ Tells Us
- 3. What IQ Doesn't Tell Us
PART III
Successful Intelligence Is What Counts
- 4. The Three Keys to Successful Intelligence
- 5. Key 1: Finding Good Solutions with Analytical Intelligence
- 6. Key 2: Finding Good Problems with Creative Intelligence
- 7. Key 3: Making Solutions Work with Practical Intelligence
PART IV
The Countdown Continues: Activating Successful Intelligence
- 8. Self-activation Versus Self-sabotage
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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About the Author
ROBERT J. STERNBERG, a 1972 Phi Beta Kappa graduate
of Yale, got his Ph.D. in 1975 from Stanford University.
He is now IBM Professor of Psychology and Education in
the Department of Psychology at Yale University. A fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a
member of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, the American Psychological Association, and
the American Psychological Society, he was recognized by
Science Digest as one of the one hundred top young
scientists in the United States, and by the Esquire Register of
Distinguished Individuals Under Forty. He is the recipient
of numerous grants and awards, and has written more than
forty books and more than five hundred articles and
research papers. He lives in Hamden, Connecticut.
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