Scott Barry Kaufman

My curiosity just took over, you know, and I started actually doing really traditional, serious experimental research with him when I got there to Cambridge.

Something that I found fascinating, and I started to go to Nick McIntosh's lectures, he did present data showing the correlation between IQ and lots of outcomes in life.

And that was a time I did feel a little triggered based on my childhood.

And I found it very, very interesting and almost a moral quandary.

He presented like basically the same table I saw when I was 16 and said that in the library.

He presented that in his lecture at University of Cambridge showing the different IQ bands and what they tend to do in their life.

Like, oh my gosh, this did really this chart again.

I kind of like snapped back to my childhood.

And I was like, well, what do I do?

Because this is the science.

This is the data.

When you go take an IQ test, it tends to be divorced entirely from the context of your own life.

That's by design.

They want to see how good are you at abstract reasoning, and that's thought to be the height of intelligence.

However, so much of life is not decontextualized from our life.

In fact, most of our life.

When we're excited about certain things, our attentional system is directed towards it.

This engagement aspect is absolutely essential to our understanding of someone's potential.

The more we engage in something, we learn.

And the more that we learn something, the more it makes us want to engage in something.