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1 The Trouble with Geniuses Knowledge of a boy’s IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys. - Liam Hudson

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3 Terman’s Termites

4 What Does it Take to Win a Nobel? Antioch College Brown University UC Berkeley University of Washington Columbia University MIT Caltech Harvard University Hamilton College Columbia University University of North Carolina DePauw University

5 What Does it Take to Win a Nobel? Antioch College Brown University UC Berkeley University of Washington Columbia University MIT Caltech Harvard University Hamilton College Columbia University University of North Carolina DePauw University

6 Chris Langan, Genius Knowledge of a boy’s IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys. - Liam Hudson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYCfRD_n9-E

7 Opportunity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB8dU4fkG1s

8 Ability

9 What’s in an IQ? 100 IQ Success/Performance

10 What’s in an IQ? 100 IQ Success/Performance

11 Sorry Strivers, Talent Matters(?)

12 Jeff Tilton jfftilton@gmail.com via msu.edu via 11/20/11 to hambric3, emeinz Your article, Sorry, Strivers :Talent Matters, from the title to the last paragraph, felt as if that annoying precocious brat that always has that, "I told you so," attitude wrote it. The writing gives the impression that both the authors place themselves in the latter group and disdain the former. Stick to journal writing because you suck at this.

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15 What does Gladwell say? I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research … for ways of augmenting story-telling. The reason I don’t do things their way is because their way has a cost: it makes their writing inaccessible. If you are someone who has as their goal... to reach a lay audience... you can't do it their way. - Malcolm Gladwell

16 The Trouble with Geniuses, Pt. II After Protracted Negotiations, it was argued that Robert would be put on probation.

17 The Trouble with Geniuses, Pt. II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=486MZC8596g

18 A Tale of Two Geniuses

19 He would be put on probation…

20 Practical Intelligence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otlmKZeNi-U

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22 Barking up the wrong tree?

23 Prodigies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wzs33wvr9E

24 Joe Flom

25 The Land of Opportunity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH86ImCOSjw&list=PLljg9Y-5aqrDoEqlBad4ncncOP-KAFiio&index=3

26 The Rags-to-Riches Myth I hope by now that you are skeptical of this kind of story. Brilliant immigrant kid overcomes poverty and the Depression, can’t get a job at the stuff downtown law firms, makes it on his own through sheer hustle and ability. It’s a rags-to-riches story and everything we’ve learned…suggests that success doesn’t happen that way.

27 The Rags-to-Riches Myth

28 Three Lessons 1. The importance of being Jewish Opportunity knocks…

29 Three Lessons 1. The importance of being Jewish

30 Three Lessons

31 2. Demographic luck Is there a perfect time for a Jewish lawyer to be born? Mort Janklow

32 Three Lessons 2. Demographic luck Is there a perfect time to be born where success is concerned? Mort Janklow

33 Three Lessons 2. Demographic luck Is there a perfect time to be born where success is concerned? YearBirthsRate 19102.8 M30.1 19153.0 M29.5 19203.0 M29.5 19252.9 M25.1 19302.6 M21.3 19352.4 M18.7 19402.6 M19.4

34 Three Lessons 3. Meaningful work The economy was desperate for the skills that the [Jews] possessed…

35 Three Lessons 3. Meaningful work Autonomy, complexity, meaning

36 The Bottom-Line Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities, and at this point…it shouldn’t be hard to figure out where the perfect lawyer comes from (p. 155).

37 What Motivates People to Practice? https://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_the_key_to_success_grit?language=en

38 Grit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiPleOusNcM

39 Mindset

40 https://www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of_believing_that_you_can_improve Growth Mindset Fixed Mindset

41 Mindset

42 The Puzzle

43 Dimensions of Exceptional Performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcTrx0hL1ag

44 Psychopathology and EP

45 Mad Genius Theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esBLxyTFDxE


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