Got Low IQ?

High IQ isn’t correlated to success in life…personality traits are.

I’m going to tell you something most people outside of psychology don’t know. That is, that average *is* intelligent….but most people won’t even come close to using the potential they’ve got.

The average person stops learning when people stop teaching. Most don’t seek out information individually, they don’t grow on their own, and they don’t search out expansion.

It isn’t because average people don’t have the capacity for it, it’s because human nature is often to *get by* with the least possible effort.

This is why having an average IQ would never hold you back - but others things certainly will.

• Lack of motivation,
• Lack of resilience/persistence (grit)
• Lack of self-control

These are the things will hold you back.

So while it’s great to have a high IQ or an average IQ…it’s what you do with it that matters. There are people with high IQs who fail high school all the time and never do anything with their life…and there are people with average IQs who end up with an 8–9 figure net worth.

IQ is about your intellectual potential…but it’s up to you how you are going to fulfill that potential…

…and if you’ve got drive? Well, there isn’t a person in the world that can stop you.

IQ tests (and I’ve given hundreds of them), tell us about your potential, and they can be influenced by a *lot* of different things - if you’re bilingual, if you are actively depressed or anxious, etc…to me, they’re just good rule-outs for certain illnesses and disabilities.

I wouldn’t worry *at all* if scoring in the average range…most people have no idea how to use what they’ve got. You can be amazing.

-Julie Gurner