Originally Posted by PoppaRex
Originally Posted by Durentu
In my study of successful people, intelligence means nothing. It all depends on one's meaning in life and the passions that ignites the heart.

I'll agree wholeheartedly with the second sentence but beg to differ on the first. I don't care for what I do, yet I am quite successful at it and make a decent living to boot. I could not solve the problems that I do without my brain.

HG+ kids are considered high risk in school for dropping out, depression, and drugs (to name a few). I find her argument valid in that most 'successful' people who really make a difference in this world are of above average intelligence but not in the HG+ range.