To public, the above title may look normal but to researcher who specialize on this matter, those two are completely different. It is because someone who possess a high IQ is not certain to be a successful mankind. In other words, IQ does not tell us whether the person will be successful or not.
The most tragic incident regarding this can be seen in Theodore John Kaczynski. He was a genius mathematician graduated from Harvard Univercity and Michigan Univercity. He was also called an "unabomber" after he killed 3 people and injured another 23. He was planning for this event for 17 years. From what he had done, we couldn't expected that Ted (nickname for Theodore John Kaczynski), during his 16 received a scholar to pursue his study at Harvard Univercity and obtain his MBA and PhD at the age of 20 and 21.
This young, genius mind is actually full with mathematical formulae. His ability was incredible. "Ted always used his imaginations" said one of Ted's former lecturer. But unfortunately, although his IQ was very high, he lacked on social skills. Ted was unable to make any social relation with other people. And we can see that nowadays "Ted" exist around as in many form.
In this world, some of us may know and admire Thomas Eddison rather than Muhammad Ali. This is not wrong but it proved that the reason why different people admire different person is because these people possessed different skills and talent. Thomas Eddison was good in science and technology but he's not good with boxing. Same goes with Ali, he was very good at boxing but was not good at science. The Intelligence Quotient introduced by William Stern a century ago attract people from many fields. And by using this IQ thing, people are forced to have a high IQ and it is too sad that IQ is the prime key to success at this time. This system terminate chances or ability or talent that people with low IQ has and therefore they are considered as failure.
According to Daniel Goleman, a psychologist, IQ only contributes about 5% to 10% in order to achieve a high achievement in our lives. The remaining percents are the combinations of many different thing such as Emotional Quotient (Gramedia, 1996). Stoltz in his book, Adversity Quotient (Gramedia, 2000), said that efforts, talent, desire, attitude, knowledge and believe are the factor that lead towards successful life.
IQ, EQ and Multiple Intelligences (introduced by Howard Gardner) are the aspect that hold the key that hide the hidden ability of human mind. But this three concepts have some weaknesses in revealing the brain's potential power. IQ for example, only deals with rational thing and it doesn't give any chances in emotional aspects such as empathy, self motivation or social relationship. Same with IQ, MI only revealed cognitive aspects such as music, sports and social skill. EQ on the other hand leave spiritual aspect behind in order to achieve success. But the Spiritual Quotient, which involve religions and moral value, is the strongest quotient above all the quotient because by using this quotient, you can have a happy and beautiful life although you don't have very high EQ or IQ.
Thank you for reading up until here. Later on I will post some other interesting fact about human mind hidden potential.
*All the facts here are taken from "Revolusi IQ,EQ,SQ" written by Taufik Pasiak, an Indonesian writer. This is a very nice book and you guys should read it.
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