Originally Posted by Val
I'll try to get it tomorrow. I have long thought that talent (especially the cognitive variety) involves more than IQ. Factors like creativity, thoughtfulness (desire to dig deep and look at a problem in many ways), ability to focus, ability to question widely accepted ideas, stubbornness, and independence are all important to varying degrees, depending on what you're trying to do. Obviously, IQ is important, but it's not everything. If it was, we wouldn't have so many unsolved problems in theoretical physics (to give one example).

Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away

When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn't see him there at all!