Since my colleague and friend Jim Walton over at Black in Business, raised the issue of IQ developed later in life, and intelligence developed in poor compared to rich areas … I’ve been inspired to identify some good news about adult intelligence growth.
We now know how to ratchet up intelligence daily - You can increase your IQ score daily at work – regardless of your age or developmental level at the time. That’s beca
use IQ … or mental capability … is not fixed as we once thought it was. Listen to an audio conversation on that topic between Wayne Turmel and me at the Cranky Middle Manager Podcast. Newly identified mental factors influence intelligence growth - A great deal of what we know about the brain’s ability to rewire itself daily has changed over the past 10 years. Research shows us daily new mental factors that play a large roles in IQ… focus… memory and multiple intelligences that lay hidden or unused in the wings of your mind. With brain technologies discussed here, workers with low IQs, properly stimulated, can experience huge leaps in IQ scores, sometimes up to 40 or more points!
People can capitalize on using brainwaves more to their advantage. Simply by increasing the speed and strength of neural networks with say … music…exercise…thought processes and dialogues, people can increase mental acumen at work. They can create the tone that successful leaders use and at the same time raise their IQ for winning tone, for instance.
Intelligence is held back in poor areas, more because of hebbian teachers, lectures that work again human brains, and brain dead faculty meetings that meet more needs of bureaucracy -- not because learners come poorly equipped in intelligence. I've written several books on the problems and possibilities of the problem Jim raised so well over at the dumbing down or growing smarter challenge.
Chemicals in your brain work for or against your smarts. Fortunately, humans can also change hormone levels in ways that success comes easier than failures encountered in part. Start for instance, with a question: Are you working with your brain? The answer is yes if you are enjoying the increasing success you deserve … and if others around you also benefit from your intelligent contributions.
It all boils down to zapping problems in favor of solutions and asking the question … Are you helping or hurting your brain at work?
Ellen, I have learned something new tonight. I was taught that 80% of IQ is determind by age 3 and that is why an early introduction to books is needed. Thank you for a great post and the encourage that continued growth is possible. This contributes to the importance of blogs.
Posted by: JD | April 9, 2007 9:40 PM | Permalink to Comment