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You Don’t Have to Be Smart to Get Rich
The key to career success is not necessarily intelligence, but the ability to synthesize your skills into a coherent whole.
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“If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”
That has long been a rejoinder from businesspeople to academics, economists in particular. It’s an excellent question — and it is becoming increasingly clear that it applies to businesspeople as well. The link between earned income and IQ, which is admittedly just one measure of intelligence, simply isn’t that strong.