Best predictor of professional success isn’t cognitive performance
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Best predictor of professional success isn’t cognitive performance
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#3TLDR exercise and such don’t actually boost cognitive ability, and the full title ends with “it’s whether your parents have money”
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#4"it’s whether your parents have money"
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#5Title shouldn't have been changed to be so clickbaity.
Real title is: "Daniel Sanabria, psychologist: ‘The best predictor of professional success isn’t cognitive performance, it’s whether your parents have money’"
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#6It's not just having money, it's keeping it. Plenty if stories if lottery winners being back where they started soon enough. Plenty of poor athletes and musicians too who once had it.
It takes intelligence and discipline to build wealth and if your parents have it they may pass that on to you. Sometimes that doesn't make you wealthy but they are still good things to inherit from your parents.
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#7No surprise. We over-worship smartness and education. Doing, trying, and attitude are probably much more important beyond basic intelligence.
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#8Title shouldn't have been changed to be so clickbaity. Real title is: "Daniel Sanabria, psychologist: ‘The best predictor of professional success isn’t cognitive performance, it’s whether your parents have money’"
HN doesn't allow titles that long. How would you have reduced that to 80 characters?
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#9Or successful patents often have successful kids?
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#10Title shouldn't have been changed to be so clickbaity. Real title is: "Daniel Sanabria, psychologist: ‘The best predictor of professional success isn’t cognitive performance, it’s whether your parents have money’"
HN doesn't allow titles that long. How would you have reduced that to 80 characters?
“Best predictor of professional success is family wealth.”
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