Success is Thinking and Working Smarter not Harder
How do we acquire our expertise and intelligences? In other words, are we who we are due to our background, agreeing that inheritance plays a firm factor in our overall potential or can we enhance our smarts via deliberate practice?
For years, I have struggled with a meaningful answer to this question.
Some suppose that smarter individuals are more intelligent than others because they possess the right genes. That is, our intelligences include stronger biological underpinnings and are genetically influenced. Others disagree strongly with this more hereditary stance arguing that it is the environment which strongly influences gene expression. Still others argue that we tend to select the environments that best suit our abilities; this latter stance considerably complicates the gene versus environment debate.
While we are all products of mother nature and nurturing environments, we must remember that we are not fully slaves to our genes or prisoners to our background. In short, I believe that success stems from a blend of best using those intelligences that our parents gave us and by developing the talents that we have polished over the years. As the jury is still out as to the answer to the above questions, perhaps the content from some of the following links may be helpful.
Revised on Wednesday, 17 September, 2008