IQ test

I come from a large family where at least 4 of us were gifted with very high I.Q. scores and now many of the grandchildren are also so blessed. I'll agree that a good and healthy set of life skills is or may be more important than traditional I.Q. scores for several reasons. 1-When school is too easy or bores us to tears, life skills will be the only thing to save us when reality hits. 2-One sibling is so arrogant and insulting that he couldn't keep or attract patients - until he finally went into forensics because corpses don't complain about his personality. 3-Several of us were doing quite well financially but due to a lack of wisdom or 'life-skills' we lost it due to very poor choices in spouses. 4-We frequently experience difficulties being understood OR persons feel intimidated by our vocabularies, skills, whatever, and yet it's so unnatural or uncomfortable to try guage the sensativities of other and adjust ourselves. 5-PLEASE TELL YOUR ULTRA SMART READERS TO LEARN TO MEDITATE or apply other life-skills BECAUSE we often have so many thoughts, so rapidly and so indepth that it's like the audoban on steroids. Knowing how stressful thinking kills brain cells, maybe that's natures way of dumbing us down to a more balanced level. High I.Q.'s are not, and never will provide a magic carpet ride through life because 'people skills', discipline, wisdom, definately an honorable code of morals and ethics, and all that you're referring to as 'life skills' are essential necessities in contemporary life. HERE'S SOMETHING I KNOW FOR SURE TO SUPPORT YOUR THESIS - All across the globe there have been billions of persons throughout the millenia with average I.Q.'s who learned the truly essential bits of wisdom and the life-skills for knowing what would truly make them happy. They very successfully dedicated themselves to creating everything they wanted their life to become AND, if they didn't hurt others in the process of manifesting their dreams, or if they considered what is best for all in their everyday choices, they didn't even fear death like so many contemporary persons do. The best life we can lead, and the best wisdom we can pass down to future generations has nothing at all to do with a high I.Q.Reply to this post. - 4 years ago

I believe that life skills IQ is more important than traditional IQ scores or Emotional Intelligence. Although Emotional INtelligence seems to be all the rage right now, it seems limited. That is why I wrote the Life Skills IQ book. I believe that Emotional INtelligence is one of the components of Life Skills IQ. It seems that people with a high life skills IQ (good communication skills, ability to manage their time, etc.) are more successful than people with a high traditional IQ or high Emotional Intelligence. Does anyone agree with me?Reply to this post. - 4 years ago