The Ten Step Plan to Be an Instructor

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If you want to be happy as you get older, recognize that it's normal to change. You need to go from one set of skills to the next. What made you good is what you to keep doing because you're a success adect. And too clarify, when you say instructor, you don't literally mean that everyone needs to go into a teaching profession or even become a mentor. That doesn't mean o being a professor like me. But you can be a better manager if you focus on synthesizing ideas.

#363: In our 20’s and 30’s, we have high levels of fluid intelligence, or raw intellectual horsepower. We can ace tests, impress people with our memory and recall, and analyze facts, documents and data.

But in our 40’s and 50’s, we have higher levels of crystallized intelligence, which allows us to draw together novel insights from across domains.

Fluid intelligence allows us to analyze, or break apart.

Crystallized intelligence allows us to synthesize, or put together.

Each type of intelligence invites us to express different skills, to pivot our role at work – or perhaps even to change careers or industries altogether.

In today’s episode, Harvard professor Arthur Brooks discusses these two types of intelligence, and outlines how we can gracefully move from one strength to the next.

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