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wilt the stilt

(4,528 posts)
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 09:22 AM Aug 2012

Business people intelligence is overrated

I have been in business for many years and one thing that I have noticed is how overrated the intelligence is. The people who were the smartest in my h.s. went into different fields. Typically in tests they do not score that well and they usually can't write very well. They succeed in business and then get this cocky attitude.
Lawyers and Doctors and most people in the arts are significantly smarter.

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kctim

(3,575 posts)
3. Depends on how you define "intelligence"
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 09:31 AM
Aug 2012

'Test smarts' and 'life smarts' are two very different things.
 

wilt the stilt

(4,528 posts)
5. sheer brainpower
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 09:36 AM
Aug 2012

business people are shrewd and many times ruthless but when it comes to pure intelligence they are not that smart. Whenever you hear the term "business is business" you know someone is getting screwed. This is the term that insulates them from any morality.

 

kctim

(3,575 posts)
7. Scores do not measure intelligence
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 10:45 AM
Aug 2012

How you apply that brain power is what measures ones intelligence, not books or tests.

A "genius" who runs a failed business or starves in the woods is no more intelligent than the successful business person or the person who can survive in the woods.

 

wilt the stilt

(4,528 posts)
8. I was just talking to a friend about this
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 12:20 PM
Aug 2012

and he is a lawyer who no longer practices and graduated from Villanova. His take for sheer brain power it is people who can master the physical sciences and that some lawyers are very smart but in reality it is an archaic language and that there is no "law" and that the law changes. However mastery of the physical sciences is sheer brain power. I tend to agree.

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