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Re: SMTP import error #-5
No Alias Created wrote:
> Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> > Dale Thorn wrote:
> > > The biggest influence on IQ are the so-called "engrams" (fears, super-
> > > stitions, anxieties, etc.) planted in your brain early in life.
> > > Some of this can be overcome with mental exercise, and awareness of what
> > > negative influences are holding you back. Much easier said than done!
> > > IQ as they attempt to measure it can probably be most easily explained
> > > as pattern matching skills. Unfortunately for testing, and although you
> > > can be every bit as intelligent at 70 as at 10, your pattern-matching
> > > skills change and evolve over time, so any given tests will only apply
> > > (more or less) at the age group they are optimized for.
>
> > Would you dismiss strong correlations between IQ and success in life
> > and academia as something irrelevant?
>
> Not at all, and I think you could make some interesting equations out of
> this if you wanted to spend the time.
>
> Factors for raw intelligence, i.e., pattern matching skills.
> Factors for aggressiveness, assertiveness, self-confidence, etc.
> Factors for manipulative ability (to manipulate people, etc.). I don't
> know how to properly categorize this last item, but perhaps a professional
> psychologist would.
>
> In sum, I think you could observe successful people and establish most
> of the relevant factors, but be aware - if you are not an insider in
> several of these "success circles", you might miss one or more key
> factors, particularly those that would be denied by successful people,
> such as willingness to do things people don't like to talk about openly.
Another new error message! Seems like a new one every couple days now.