Successful Intelligence

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;rom 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... Tovább

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;rom 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 fmd 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 IQ. 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.
I 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 succesful-ly in tests of creative and practical intelligence. (continued on back flap) Vissza