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Originally Posted by jakethegreat  I don't think that's it's intelligence, rather creativity.
I've noticed that the richest people in the world have seriously thought the best ways to make money.
People with a powerful right brain are usually the CEO's of the company because they thought of some crazy way to connect people (facebook) or sell knowledge (david deangelo). |
Having a dominant right brain doesn't mean your creative, the right hemisphere is more more visual and musical, therefore more people with dominant right hemispheres are more likely to be artists/musicians, which most people associate with the creative types.
Generally, in my view, it depends on what your view of success is. If you consider success as working for a charity organization all your life (or being a lightworker - putting a Pavlina spin on it
) then you're less likely to achieve fame or the wealth that a CEO or an artist/musician (etc.) potentially could. Therefore, does that mean you're less successful?
If you're talking in terms of academics/the arts or business, then yes, i think you do need a certain amount of Intelligence (Not necessarily I.Q - because you can get a low I.Q score and still be intelligent) but you do need an above average intelligence.
If you don't have the intelligence, you can't have the creativity, if you don't have the creativity, you can't have the academic success, because you need the creativity to think in new ways/patterns /original to achieve the success.
Creative people are 'more open to incoming stimuli'. Intelligent folk stream and filter the excessive stimuli effectively turning it into creative solutions, less intelligent people don't and therefore develop mental health problems such as Schizophrenia.
to be creative, you can be crazy & bright but certainly not stupid.
And yes, apart from creativity, you need a host of other qualities. IMO, you need the intelligence to have the creativity to have the originality to be different to be successful. Follow my train of thought.
