Now there is a lot of quotient, what IQ EQ inverse quotient, the mainstream of media propaganda has also become EQ is more important than IQ, inverse quotient is more important than all quotient, it seems that IQ has become an outdated concept.
Indeed, IQ is not omnipotent, and human achievement is very closely related to non-intellectual factors, such as leadership, psychological resilience, emotional intelligence, and reverse quotient. Many media outlets are also promoting the importance of other businesses, leading to less attention to IQ. IQ is by no means dispensable, IQ is not omnipotent, but it is impossible without intelligence.
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People with low IQs are less happy and more likely to commit crimes
A study of students under the age of 16 found that only 4% of the scores came from non-intellectual factors, such as hard work, concentration, etc., and more than 25% came from differences in students' intelligence.
A study of crime rates showed that people with low IQs were 10 times more likely to go to jail for crime than people with high IQs.
Not only crime, almost all mental illnesses and behavioral disorders, such as antisocial personality disorder, schizophrenia, alcohol addiction and drug addiction, have a very high correlation with intelligence. For every 15-point drop in IQ, the risk of mental illness and behavioral disorders increases by an average of 28 percent.
In real life, low-IQ people are 15 times more likely to live in poverty than high-IQ people, and they usually work in jobs that are less complex and easily replaced, so low-IQ people are 6 times more likely to lose their jobs than high-IQ people.
Why do people with low IQs have higher crime rates and live in poverty? Leave a foreshadowing here, and the answer will be found in the next section when introducing the elements of intelligence.
Compared with people with low IQs, people with high IQs not only have lower crime rates, but also excel in their studies during their teenage years, they receive better education, find better jobs, and earn higher incomes. In terms of life, there are happier marriages and families, a positive lifestyle, and a correct sense of risk management, so that they are mentally and physically healthier.
Those who have watched "The Strongest Brain" should know that Water Brother Wang Yuheng, a man with super observation. The first place in the design major of Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts in the college entrance examination, Tsinghua Xueba, the top ten all-round artists.
He seems to know everything, ceramics, painting, design, piano, translation, he is a walking encyclopedia, he takes his daughter to travel all over the world, only you can't think of it, without him wouldn't. Brother Shui's high IQ gave him the right to choose his life.
The difference between high IQ and low IQ is so big, so how can you know if you are high IQ or low IQ?
There are now many questionnaires to measure IQ, such as the Merriam-Webster intelligence test, the Raven test, the Kaufmann intelligence test and so on. In "Becoming the Strongest Brain" by Professor Liu Jia, the general consultant of science and proposition person of the "Strongest Brain" program, the 6 directions that the "Strongest Brain" selection contestants focus on, these 6 abilities are also the favored directions in various intelligence tests.
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6 abilities to measure IQ
For people's abilities, the core is the ability to solve problems, which is also reasoning, which is the core element of intelligence.
The core of intelligence – reasoning
Reasoning ability is the ability to measure a person's ability to use knowledge to solve problems and to extrapolate the known to the unknown. The ability to analyze and understand the causes and consequences of things in daily life, and the ability to find the crux of the problem on professional problems, are all reasoning.
Back to the foreshadowing I just left – why do people with low IQs have a high crime rate? In fact, there is a problem with their reasoning ability.
In January 2020, Yang Wen, an emergency doctor at the Civil Aviation General Hospital, was brutally killed with a knife by Sun Moumou, the son of a patient.
The cause of this injury and medical incident is that Sun X's 95-year-old mother was hospitalized for 20 or 30 days, and the fever has not receded, and Sun X has already quarreled with the doctor several times. Sun Moumou deliberately entered the hospital with a knife for a long time and gave a cruel hand to Dr. Yang, who was working.
Dr. Yang Wen's rescue is ineffective, and Sun Moumou has also been punished by the law, and the old saying that he should pay the blood debt and blood repayment is just that such a life for a life is difficult for people to accept. A doctor with rich experience in diagnosis and treatment, an unemployed vagrant with a confused mind, is really sad.
People like Sun Moumou can infer that he has a low IQ and does not have the most basic reasoning ability without passing an intelligence test. Doctors are not gods, 95-year-old people are sick with fever, no one can get rid of the disease, blame the doctor for the mother's illness, a little careless use of such a brutal way to solve the problem, reasoning ability is basically zero.
STEM foundation – spatial force
STEM is an acronym for the four disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
Science is to understand the world and explain the objective laws of nature; technology and engineering is to transform the world on the basis of respecting the laws of nature, achieve harmonious coexistence with the natural world, and solve problems encountered in the process of social development; mathematics is used as the basic tool of technology and engineering disciplines.
In the era of knowledge economy, cultivating people with STEM literacy is the key to enhancing national competitiveness, and talented people with outstanding performance in STEM can promote the development of science and technology, and the foundation of STEM is spatial force.
Spatial force is the ability of visual space, people with strong spatial force can accurately feel the visual space and construct the perceptual visual content in the mind. Many professions require good spatial skills, such as pilots, sculptors, architects, and scientists.
A must-have for outstanding talents - creativity
Qian Xuesen, a famous scholar, said, "An important reason why China has not developed now is that no university can run schools in accordance with the model of cultivating talents for scientific and technological invention and creation, and does not have its own unique and innovative things." It is a big problem that outstanding talents are always not produced. ”
People with strong creativity are people who are not conformist, have the courage to accept challenges, and open up ideas to solve problems. People with good creativity are extremely sensitive to new things, and many professions require creativity, such as artistic writers, photographers, music producers, etc., research-oriented teachers, engineers, etc.
The core literacy of the information age - computing power
Computational power is not computational addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, but the ability to think computationally and use computer and programming ideas to solve problems. After all, as long as someone can give instructions to the computer, the computer can solve the complex problems that the human brain cannot calculate.
In the new curriculum standards promulgated by the Ministry of Education of the Mainland in 2017, computational thinking has become the core literacy of information technology disciplines. Having a computational mindset can make people better adapt to the development of the Internet, big data and information technology, artificial intelligence and other technologies. It can be said that with computational thinking, you can make full use of advanced technology, and you naturally have a super brain.
Precise input and fast output – observation and memory
Observation and memory are like twins, one input and one output.
Observation is an individual's ability to process visual information effectively. 80% of the information obtained by humans comes from vision, the same scene, some people look at a hilarity, some people see the head is the Tao, the development of observation affects the child's ability to obtain information. Observation is input, memory is output.
Memory is the ability to store and extract input information from the outside world. Super memory, can make people quickly and fluently put forward information from the brain, remember the experience and knowledge obtained in daily life and learning and use it, which is more conducive to the collision of thinking and improve creativity.
After years of research, scientists have found that genes determine the upper and lower limits of intellectual development, and the acquired environment determines the extent to which intelligence can approach the upper limit. There is only one factor that has been confirmed by countless scientific studies to contribute to intellectual improvement, and that is education.
Education is the only way to steadily and effectively improve a child's intelligence. Parents are the best teachers for children, and they are the real guides and supporters for children's intellectual development.
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Cultivate your child's high IQ in stages
At different stages of the child, to improve the child's intelligence, it is necessary to guide the child's development characteristics with purpose.
Brain development at 0-3 years: perceptual training
In the theory of child psychologist Piaget, children aged 0-3 years old are mentally and cognitively advanced in the perceptual motor stage and the pre-computing stage. The child is curious about everything around him, and this curiosity is satisfied through the perception of the external world. Children will greedily look at the world, which is the best time to cultivate children's observation.
At this stage, parents should consciously guide their children from "rough look" and "general look" to pay attention to details and look at it with feelings.
For example, if you take a walk with your child to see the leaves falling from the tree, we can observe the color shape of the leaves and the veins on the leaves with the children, introduce the differences between the leaves in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and let the children know the life of the leaves as a whole.
From seeing a fallen leaf, to observing a fallen leaf, to looking at a fallen leaf with emotion, the child can see not only a leaf, but also a sense of life and the sublimation of beauty.
Mental development at 3-6 years old: spatial, memory and computing
The language skills of children aged 3-6 are developing rapidly, and their cognition of the world is gradually moving from concrete things to symbolic representations. Children begin to use symbols to replace external things and construct the transformation of the psychological world.
At this stage, we must strengthen the training of the child's symbol system, mainly from the three aspects of spatial force, memory and computing power to guide the child.
Guide children to establish spatial concepts and form mathematical models in their minds.
For example, if the child builds a good building block, we can take pictures from different angles to guide the child to look from above, from the side, and from the back, so that the child has an overall understanding of the building blocks and further explore the three-dimensional image of the building blocks.
The process of finding angles is the process of allowing children to explore in reality and construct spatial imagination and spatial rotational figures in their minds.
To improve children's memory, we must guide children to actively remember.
For example, take your child to the supermarket, let the child remember what to buy, and remember what he bought. Start guiding your child to say 3-5 things, which can slowly increase the difficulty, with details such as the say color function. Extend the child's memory time, such as recall after 1 week, and so on. Improve your child's memory by allowing your child to actively remember.
Computing power includes not only narrow calculations, but also quantity, time, space, classification, collection, correspondence, sorting, and so on.
The cultivation of children's computing power is not enough to learn addition and subtraction, but to comprehensively cultivate children's computational thinking.
For example, looking for the relationship between the features of different objects, classifying concrete features and abstract features; finding differences from the same kind, and also looking for common features of different objects. This is conducive to the development of children to more advanced collective thinking and corresponding thinking in computing.
Brain development at 6-15 years old: reasoning and creativity
Children after the age of 6 enter what Piaget calls the specific computational thinking mode.
Children have a clearer understanding of logic, rules and foresight, and have the ability to find the essence from the concrete, and at the same time expand to the social field to solve practical problems. This stage is the golden age when children develop logical reasoning skills.
Reasoning depends on observation, and to improve reasoning, it is necessary to start with full perception of the environment, relevant experience and rich appearances.
Let the child see, listen, smell and play, perceive things from multiple angles, and give the child the opportunity to reason and guide the child to think.
For example, after visiting the zoo, you can summarize with your children which animals are a category, and what are the characteristics of mammals and birds. Let the child observe natural things, predict the weather, dragonflies fly low will rain, why? Guide children to observe the phenomena that exist in the natural world and find connections between things.
Creativity is not limited by age, and creativity can be cultivated anytime, anywhere. Children of a young age can make simple artistic creations and develop divergent thinking. We can draw a lot of circles, let the child draw different things, wheels, sun, smiling faces, etc., let the child give full play to the imagination.
For upperclassmen, language is a better medium of creation. We can play games about language with children, such as finding words with the same tone, idiom solitaire, ancient poetry solitaire, family story making up, etc., which can stimulate the formation of vocabulary networks in children's brains.
Through the cultivation of children's multiple abilities, children will gradually evolve from single abilities to multiple abilities, helping children get rid of the constraints of thinking and become highly intelligent talents.
Psychologist Professor Schaebel says that anything that is intellectually challenging has the potential to become a stimulus for the growth of neuronal dendrites.
The growth of dendrites means it can increase the brain's "computational reserves." Intelligence is influenced by genetics, but acquired effort is just as important.
Believe in hard work, pay attention to the learning process, do not give up when you fail, and enjoy the fun of learning, in order to continue to grow to the maximum limit of intelligence.