What Predicts Success? It's Not Your IQ (Goleman) Flashcards
The CEO of the world’s largest money management firm and Malcolm Gladwell both found that many of those in the mid to low achievement spectrum of Ivy League schools didn’t turn out to be world leaders. What was the muddle in their reasoning?
They assumed that academic abilities should predict how well we do in life, when they do not!
How does Gladwell allude to the concept of being a small fish in a big pond?
Gladwell proposes that the relatively poor performance of students who score average grades at highly-competitive schools suffer from learned low self-confidence, from being a small fish in a big pond.
Studies at UPenn have found that students who don’t have the highest IQs in their class, but get high grades, share what attitude?
GRIT, an ability to keep plugging away, despite any setbacks or failures.
In a 30-year longitudinal study of more than a thousand kids, which children had the greatest financial success in their 30s?
Those with the best COGNITIVE CONTROL.
What did cognitive control predict?
Cognitive control predicted success better than a child’s IQ, and better than the wealth of the family they grew up in.
What is cognitive control?
Abilities to delay gratification in pursuit of your goals:
- Maintaining impulse control
- Managing upsetting emotions well
- Holding focus
- Possessing readiness to learn
What is the relationship between grit and cognitive control?
Grit requires good cognitive control.
Why are competency models used by companies?
These are studies done by companies themselves, to identify the abilities of their star performers.
What are the abilities that set stars apart from average at work?
Those that cover the emotional intelligence spectrum:
- Self-awareness
- Self-management
- Empathy
- Social effectivenessW
What do grit and cognitive control exemplify?
Self-management, a key part of emotional intelligence.
What are the crucial factors in workplace success?
DISTINGUISHING competencies, the variables you can only find in star performers, largely due to emotional intelligence.
Human skills such as confidence, striving for goals despite setbacks, staying cool under pressure, harmony and collaboration, persuasion and influence.
