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SYSK Choice: How to Boost Your Self Confidence & Avoiding Misapplied Intelligence

Something You Should Know

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Is Our Intelligence Set or Can We Be More Intelligent or Less Intelligent?

Is our intelligence set or can we become more intelligent or less intelligent? There's undoubtedly a kind of genetic component to peoples acuticls. When you compare people within the same population and roughly similar backgrounds, it's about 70 to 80 % genetic. But that doesn't mean that it's fixed. And we know it's not completely fixed, and that you can still make huge strides due to something called the slin effect. This is this mysterious rise in i cues that we've seen between generations for the last 80 years or so - amounts to a round 30 ic points over all.

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