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but among scientists there is no correlation between IQ and scientific productivity. Indeed, a number of Nobel Prize–winning scientists have had IQs that would not even qualify them for Mensa, an organization whose members must have a measured IQ of at least 132, a number that puts you in the upper 2 percentile of the population. Richard Feynman, one of the most brilliant physicists of the twentieth century, had an IQ of 126; James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, had an IQ of 124; and William Shockley, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the invention of the transistor, had an IQ of 125.
Peak
Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
You give me a situation, I will make it work. That’s what drives me. A new challenge every time, a new way to do things better than we did before. I’ll admit, it’s not easy to impress me, and it’s hard to teach me anything I can’t learn on my own. But one person teaches me every day and challenges me in ways I never dreamed imaginable, and that’s my beautiful and bright daughter, Pilar. She’s my living proof that emotions make you weak, because when it comes to her, I’m just a daddy in love with his little girl. She’s smart and beautiful like her mother, and she’s my reason for coming back from the dark side of intensity and competition and unyielding pressure, into the light and love she melts me with every day of my life. My deepest wish is that everything I do makes her as proud of me as I am of her. I’m telling you that because my advice to my daughter is the same advice I pass along to you, so you know it’s the truth: Every dream you imagine, everything you see and hear and feel in your sleep, that’s not a fantasy, that’s your deep instinct telling you it can all be real. Follow those visions and dreams and desires, and believe what you know. Only you can turn those dreams into reality. Never stop until you do. The greatest battles you will ever fight are with yourself, and you must always be your toughest opponent. Always demand more of yourself than others demand of you. Be honest with yourself, and you’ll be able to meet every challenge with confidence and the deep belief that you are prepared for anything. Life can be complicated; the truth is not. I truly believe I have zero limitations. You should believe the same about yourself. Listen to your instincts. They’re telling you the truth. I want the satisfaction of knowing that every move I make, every thought, every idea, every action
No matter how open we as a society are about formerly private matters, the stigma around our emotional struggles remains formidable. We’ll talk with almost anyone about our physical health (can anyone imagine spouses hiding their reflux medication from each other?), even our sex lives, but bring up anxiety or depression or an intractable sense of grief, and the expression on the face looking back at you will probably read, Get me out of this conversation, pronto. But what are we so afraid of? It’s not as if we’re going to peer in those darker corners, flip on the light, and find a bunch of cockroaches. Fireflies love the dark too. There’s beauty in those places. But we have to look in there to see it. My business, the therapy business, is about looking. And not just with my patients. A little-discussed fact: Therapists go to therapists. We’re required, in fact, to go during training as part of our hours for licensure so that we know firsthand what our future patients will experience. We learn how to accept feedback, tolerate discomfort, become aware of blind spots, and discover the impact of our histories and behaviors on ourselves and others. But then we get licensed, people come to seek our counsel and . . . we still go to therapy.
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Lori Gottlieb
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