Although it has been argued that IQ has no relevance when it comes to being successful professionally or in life, I think it is very important when coupled with emotional intelligence. For example, if you want to learn how to build a website from scratch, if you have high IQ, you will learn faster. If you don't, you will make mistakes and you will be frustrated because you don't know where you messed up an html line and your whole website is a mess. Of course, if you know how to handle yourself under stress, you will remain calm, but the more mistakes you make because you cannot cope with the complexity of the task, the harder it will be for you not to get frustrated.
Other examples include doing well in school, in a programming or accounting job, figuring out how to get out of a difficult situation that involves technology or legal complications that can be solved better by someone with higher IQ.
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