These are the skills and qualities you need to possess in order to be upwardly mobile and head for a successful life. The IQ that Gladwell talks about is primarily the old standard analytic thinking IQ. Not the broad range of intelligence factors measured by Daniel Goleman and others, such as spiritual intelligence and emotional intelligence. These types of intelligence are exactly what we need to get what we want from the world.
How to Move Up in the World
You have to know your basic goal or path - or at least, you have to have some path in mind, even if it's not the be-all-and-end-all path. Then you have to know how to elicit the help of others to get there. Namely, you need to know:
-who to talk to
-what to say
-when to say it
-how to say it
-what not to say
Have you often wondered about this? I have. I've found myself wondering how to know the answers to these things for complex social situations. I think it's a lot more complex than Mark Victor Hansen and Brian Tracy and Anthony Robbins make it out to be. And Dale Carnegie and all of them. People can see through mindless flattery. And who would want to engage in such an empty practice anyway?
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Based upon and inspired by Malcolm Gladwell's recent book, _Outliers: The Story of Success_ (2008). Outliers is a term for people, events and phenomena that fall outside the realm of the everyday: extraordinary people and their achievements. We would all like to be exceptional at something. The good news is that it isn't intelligence that causes true success, but a lot of practice and taking advantages of the opportunities we are given.
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