Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
47 minutes agoHow Financial Anxiety Clouds Your Brain
Financial worries impair cognitive functions, affecting decision-making and performance, rather than reducing inherent intelligence.
For decades, we've treated IQ and EQ as the twin pillars of success. IQ measures how well you think. EQ measures how well you feel. Together, they shaped how we educated children, selected leaders, and decided who had "potential." But after years of working closely with founders, executives, and high performers, I've become convinced that something critical is missing from this picture. I argue that there's a third form of intelligence, one that quietly determines who thrives when life stops following the script.
Murray and Herrnstein argue that intelligence, as measured by an IQ score, is a crucial determinant of success in modern society. They also argue that a person's intelligence is substantially determined by genetics, leading to the establishment of "cognitive elites" as intelligent people select one another for reproduction. Most controversially, Herrnstein and Murray entertain the possibility that socioeconomic and educational differences among racial groups could be explained by differences in their IQ scores,