Successful Intelligence
The further you go in school, the more money you make. Education works, in part, by transmitting the effects of earlier experiences. How much education people get depends, in part, on the affluence and education of their parents.
In relationships, we tolerate dissatisfactions, so severe that, had we known, we would never have entered the relationship in the first place. People who stay in unhealthy relationships may be smart enough to know the relationship isn’t working and may know even why, but they are not smart enough to know what to do about it. Successfully intelligent people can make mistakes and get into bad situations in business or in relationships, but they have judgment and the courage to know when and how to get out.
Many problems are hard to solve, people bring a particular mental set to them (entrenchment) that works in solving many problems, but does not solve the problem at hand. Functional fixedness is to find a solution with multiple uses.
Incubation involves putting a problem aside for a while, then coming back to it later. You do not consciously think about the problem, but it is processed subconsciously. As time passes, new stimuli, both external and internal may activate new perspectives on the problem, weakening mental set effects.
Overconfidence in our judgments is not clear. It could be that we prefer not to think about being wrong. Another is a belief that we have not been wrong in the past, so we have demonstrated our invulnerability in making bad judgments.
Another common error is the gambler’s fallacy, a belief that just by the nature of things a person’s luck is bound to change. The gambler who loses five successive bets, believes the winner is the sixth bet. Another error is fallacy of composition, when we believe what is true of the parts of a whole must be true of the whole.
Successful Intelligence- Robert Sternberg.
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