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Malcolm Gladwell Questions Everything

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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I Don't Choose My Intelligence, but It's Highly Heritable

"This has kind of been annoying me for 14 years. You've carried this festering annoyance around with you now," he says. "I didn't choose my intelligence. I was born into it. It's highly heritable." He adds that the things that predict success in a select universe have not had nothing to do with intelligence, but they are parallel to intelligence. 'There are certain things, very particular things that I'm increasingly interested in'

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