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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IQ has little impact on life time achievements.  Beyond IQ and hard work I think people who excel are also willing to take more risks in life.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/07/science/75-years-later-study-still-tracking-geniuses.html?pagewanted=all

http://aplus.com/a/75-year-harvard-grant-study-happiness

Last paragraph sums it up.

Though the Terman kids were handpicked for high IQ, the longitudinal results tell us little about the meaning of IQ, except for one study conducted by Terman's associate, Melita Oden. In 1968, she compared the 100 most successful and 100 least successful men in the group, defining success as holding jobs that required their intellectual gifts. The successes, predictably, included professors, scientists, doctors and lawyers. The non-successes included electronics technicians, police, carpenters and pool cleaners, plus a smattering of failed lawyers, doctors and academics. But here's the catch: the successes and non-successes barely differed in average IQ. The big differences turned out to be in confidence, persistence and early parental encouragement.[/quote]

The confident, risk taker gets the girl, the job, the sale, and so on. [/quote]

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