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What is the No.1 sign of high intelligence according to Steve Jobs?
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Today’s article summary is a life hack for those looking to better themselves, and thus falls in the #selfimprovement category. (1/12)
2) It is an @Inc article by acclaimed writer @EntryLevelRebel, who examines this perspective by the Apple co-founder.
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3) Stillman opens by reminding us that intelligence is not what we think it is, noting that many people who ace school don’t always succeed in the business world.
4) Drawing from a talk Jobs gave in 1982, she highlights his belief that true intelligence was the ability to make unexpected connections between fields.
5) “It is the ability to zoom out, like looking down on a city from the 80th floor as opposed to being at street level looking at a map,” Jobs said, asserting that intelligence is being able to see the whole picture.
6) Jobs says that “being an intellectual omnivore who explores the world in unique ways” is key to developing this trait.
7) “Don’t have the same experiences as others, or else you won’t innovate: Try poetry in Paris for a few years, visit a third-world country, fall in love with two people at once, take LSD like Walt Disney,” he flippantly stated.
8) Combining unrelated & rare areas of expertise gives you a broader view of problems and unique insights to solve them, like when Jobs’ calligraphy course influenced Apple computer’s typography.
9) Science confirms the link between this trait and great brains, citing a Sixties study when scientists observed geniuses in a house, finding that every super achiever was open to new ideas and experiences.
10) With another recent study correlating a high appetite for new ideas with intelligence among the young.
11) Whilst focus is indeed essential to executing a good idea one already has, in order to be smart enough to come up with good ideas in the first place comes from cultivating such intellectual openness and diverse interests.
12) “Only by being ‘distractible’ can you find something WORTH focusing on,” Stillman concludes.
Full article here
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/this-is-number-1-sign-of-high-intelligence-according-to-steve-jobs.html
Full article here
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/this-is-number-1-sign-of-high-intelligence-according-to-steve-jobs.html
