Jim Kwik argues that intelligence isn't one fixed thing measured by IQ tests. Schools focus only on verbal and math skills, ignoring kinesthetic, musical, visual-spatial, and interpersonal intelligence. With training, anyone can improve, and all forms matter equally to society.
Again, it's not how smart you are, it's how are you smart? And in school, they only really, really enforce 2 kinds of intelligence. Like, you think about the SATs, standardized tests. It was like reading, like verbal, and mathematical. But there's so many different other forms of intelligence. Like, there's kinesthetic intelligence, amazing choreographers and dancers and athletes. There's musical intelligence. There's visual-spatial intelligence. People are great artists and graphic designers and architects. There's interpersonal intelligence. People who are just— have a gift and genius connecting with people. And so there's different forms, What I know is that an IQ test— I could teach anybody how to do better on an IQ test. It's not fixed. The idea of an IQ test is you take a test when you're 8, and that's your same potential as when you're 88. What we found is your intelligence is not fixed. It could grow through training and discipline. And also, each intelligence should be equally valued. Like, all these intelligences are important in our society to be able to create the literature, the art, the science, the economics of how we can really thrive.
The Library of Minds: Brain Coach: How to Stay Sharp When AI Does the Thinking | Jim Kwik
