I'm not that knowledgable about IQ tests, but I'm fairly certain they fall into the trap of standardising everyone and rewarding certain telent themes more than others.
In other words, people with certain talent themes (specifically, those from the "thinking" domain) will do better on the test with talent themes from the relating and achieving domain.
This would need testing. Perhaps IQ tests cut into the "base talent" concept I coined to describe the base intelligence we all share in common, but in general, everybody has different types of intelligence: social intelligence, mental intelligence, and... well, I'm not sure how to define them, but the basic concept is that we are intelligent within certain areas, and not all of us will be be able to be intelligent in other areas due to our talents. Some talent configurations grant more flexibility than others.
Any work by Marcus Buckingham, or a search through my post history on "talents", will explain more.
I think the key to success is self alignment. Not just in the talent sense, but in a holistic sense where you're aligning yourself with values that resonate with you and moving towards people and situations that empower and energise you. Having a vehicle to express your talents is important, too. And I mean a vehicle, not a job or business, since that's a terrible definition for applying talent to create value. You want something that will act as a suitable vehicle for your talents, and then you can cover whether that vehicle is a job, a business, etc.
These are concepts fresh of the Bruce press, so if you're kind of "huh?", well, you'll have to wait until I setup my website before I write more on it. I also need to further explore the "vehicle" concept.
Really, I find I'm more effective when I drop using concepts outside of myself and rather use things that resonate with me--something that already aligns with something internally--and then creating my own concepts as I explore, experiment, and try different things. That's how I came up with the "vehicle" model. Often in today's world, we need new models and concepts because our old ways of doing things are simply broken (i.e. downright bad), incomplete (i.e. fragmented; compartmentalised), or unbalanced (a disproportionate balance with either truth, love, or power). When you take into account your own uniqueness and stop standardising yourself, it becomes almost essential to leverage existing models while creating models that are uniquely you. Or as Bruce Lee would put it:
Quote:
1. Research your own experience
2. Absorb what is useful
3. Reject what is useless
4. Add what is specifically your own
— Bruce Lee (a real, confirmable Bruce Lee quote, from a plaque Bruce had made)
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