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After decades of agonizing over the fairness of SAT It is no wonder that a number of excellent colleges
scores, the differences between male and female and universities eliminated these measures or placed
mathematical skills, and gaps in IQ between them in a proper perspective. Obviously this should
various racial and ethnic groups, the notion of not be construed to mean entrepreneurship is for
intelligence and how to measure it remains more dummies. Quite the opposite is true. Indeed,
political than scientific, and as maddenly elusive as intelligence is a very valuable and important asset for
ever. entrepreneurs, but by itself is woefully inadequate.
In ancient China, the top scholar in the Imperial Clearly just being very smart won’t help much if one
Examination is called a zhuangyuan ( ), and doesn’t possess numerous other. A fascinating
zhuangyuan are highly admired throughout Chinese article by Chris Argyris, “Teaching Smart People
history. Today, people refer to students who scored How to Learn,” is well worth reading to get some
the highest points in their provincial college entrance powerful insights into why it is often not the class
examinations as zhuangyuan. Being called a genius who becomes most successful.
zhuangyuan is still the ultimate badge of honor
for many students in China. However, results from
a study of 1,120 zhuangyuan who graduated between
1977 and 2008 were shocking; most of these top
scholars perform far below expectation in their
careers. Conversely, a study on a high-ranking
Chinese university’s outstanding alumni showed that
none of these former students were zhangyuan.
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