Are You a Pure Crystallized Intelligence Person?

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If you are currently in your twenties, and at this point in your life, your skill set is already what you've just described. You're going to find that what you're really good at is finding stuff out before other people. And so you can be highly loaded on fluid intelligence, amiliar kind of crystallized intelligence business, and your goin to find at that's harder to do. On the other hand, if you're a pure fluid intelligence person, you might in a career like being a a a biotec inventor, you're probably going to have to change professions. So the bottom line is that some people get into professions that are a mix, that require a mix

#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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