Majid Fotuhi, M.D., Ph.D.
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And that's an absolute mistake.
That is totally wrong.
Because who's there to decide as to why being good with logic and problem solving is better than being able to play the piano, for example.
Because if you could be a master pianist,
but you will do poorly on IQ tests.
Are you not intelligent?
You could be a great cook and have poor scores on IQ tests.
Are you not intelligent?
You could be a billionaire and do poorly on IQ tests.
Are you not intelligent?
So I think we need to appreciate that intelligence comes in many different forms.
One of the favorite forms of intelligence for me is emotional intelligence.
For a person to detect that the other person is happy or unhappy and then connect to them.
This is a form of intelligence can make you very successful in life.
And this is not something that can be measured on an IQ test.
So in my book, I list 30 different types of intelligence, but these are not all types of intelligence.
Bottom line is this, your cortex and hippocampus can do pretty much anything.
Like you can become a pianist, you can become a cook, you can become a businessman.
And all of those functions are things that are done by cortex and hippocampus and the parts of the cortex and hippocampus can be trained to be better at it.
Remember I mentioned earlier to you that playing golf will grow the size of the brain for hand-eye coordination and other functions in order to be better at golf.
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