Past IQ 120, creativity is more important than IQ

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

This is interesting:

t’s like basketball: once someone is tall enough, then we start to care about other things, like speed, agility, ballhandling skills and aim.

Bringing together people with the highest IQs and thinking that they will be the most successful group is the same as gather the highest basketball players and say they are the best team.
The relationship between success and IQ works only up to a point. Once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, having additional IQ points doesn’t seem to translate into any measurable real-world advantage.

If intelligence matters only up to a point, then other things must start to matter more. Suppose that instead of measuring your IQ, I gave you a totally different kind of test, one that measures something much closer to creativity, one that has no single right answer.

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    http://reglia.com/blog/does-having-a-high-iq-makes-you-less-creative.html#sthash.c9fjLbjb.dpbs
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