By Royane Real

Author of:  “How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative”  

Most of us are very interested in trying to find out what our IQ score is.  That is why websites that offer free IQ tests are so popular.

Believe it or not, there is a potential danger in finding out your IQ score.  The problem is that once you know your IQ, you may get too focused on it.  You might end up letting your IQ score have too much influence over your life. 

For example, if your IQ score happens to be very high, you might think that you don’t have to work very hard in life.  You may believe that because you are so smart, that success will just automatically come to you.  `

You may start to use your high IQ as a reason to feel superior to everybody else, especially if it seems that other people don’t like you.  You might use a high IQ as a reason not to bother developing your social skills.

On the other hand, if your IQ score happens to be low, or just average, you may feel like your life is over before it gets started.  You may believe that having a low IQ score will doom you to a lifetime of failure and mediocrity.  You may use a low IQ score as a reason to feel that you are an inferior human being.  You might use a low or average IQ score as an excuse not to try very hard.

If you do know your IQ score, you shouldn’t focus too much on it, whether your IQ is very high, or whether it is just average or low.

The truth is that having a high IQ score doesn’t really guarantee success in life.  Many of the people who have high IQ’s aren’t particularly successful in school.  Very often, people who have high IQ scores don’t do anything outstanding later in life either.

Many people with average IQ scores have gone on to become very successful in life. 

IQ tests measure a type of potential.  However, just having a potential is no guarantee of future success.  In order to be successful, a person who has a potential talent still needs to take steps to develop that potential further, and he needs to find a way to make use of that talent in a practical way. 

Not everyone who has a potential talent also possesses the desire to do something with it.

Here’s an example:  A person might be blessed with one of the greatest singing voices in the history of the world, yet that person might have no interest in music.  Or, a person may be able to sing fantastically well, yet they might be too terrified to perform in front of others.  So the fact that they have a potentially great singing talent does not mean that they will find success in the field of singing.

Another person might have a body that would be great for swimming, yet they might be afraid of water.  A person might have a great talent for high jumping, yet might have no interest in sports.

The world is full of many kinds of potential talents, that for some reason are never fulfilled.

So, you can look at a high IQ score as a kind of potential talent.  Whether or not that talent is fulfilled depends on many other factors.

Being smart is a great advantage, but it’s not the only quality that you need to become successful.

This article was written by Royane Real who is the author of the book  “How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative”  Download it today and learn more ways to get the maximum use of your brainpower. It’s available at  http://www.lulu.com/real You can also get this book in a paperback version.

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