How to Get the Right Kind of Hit From Finishing Your Job

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In order to pivot from a position in which a knowledge worker uses primarily fluid intelligence, that raw horse power when they're young, is this something a person can do within the same role? Or does it require a career change, or an industry change? It starts with your own orientation toward yourself. Most people who are really hard workers and have done well, they become success adects. And i'm telling you, i had one brand that i was smoking, and i wouldn't go, i would go away out of my way if the place where i bought cigarettes didn't have the brand. That's what success attics all have in common.

#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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