shminux comments on Innate Mathematical Ability - LessWrong

40 Post author: JonahSinick 18 February 2015 11:11AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (140)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: shminux 28 February 2015 04:35:48PM 2 points [-]

Echoing Ilya here. IQ tests are a rough guide of what's possible to achieve, not a predictor of success and satisfaction in life. Like height is a rough guide of what's possible to achieve in basketball. If you are 5'10", NBA is probably not for you. If your IQ tests keep returning under 120, you will probably not be an MIT prof. Unless you have some exceptional abilities not captured by these simple tests. Find something at you enjoy doing AND are very good at, and work on it. It'll pay.

Comment author: slicko 28 February 2015 09:58:16PM 0 points [-]

See my response to JonahSinick below