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To: epicure who wrote (171916)	10/4/2005 6:57:56 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yup! I've had the same experience. The problem is that too many of them feel they are God's gift to mankind. They don't seem to comprehend that nobody owes them anything for their mental ability. In addition, there is no strong correlation that I know of between high IQ and creativity, good ethics, or even wealth. This is to say that if ten years after graduation you are to look at the so called "greatest and brightest" university graduates, you will find less than 2% of them are leading in a research or creative activities. Nor are the people who make the biggest money are those with the highest IQ. Nor are they the happiest people around. It seems to me, that to be fully successful, aside from some luck and resources, one needs to have a balanced portfolio of multiple intelligences. Creativity for example is more a function of "whole brain" processing than left-brain (or right-brain for that matter). I also suspect that many people who score very high at IQ tests, do so because they developed that part of their brain at the cost of other parts. I have anecdotal evidence for this theory but no proof.