If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultivate these. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there.

The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.

Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged.

If you enjoy reading, writing, learning, and sharing what you have learned, don't hesitate to look for a life where you can continue to do those things. It could be as a scientist, an educator, an editor, a journalist, the founder of an organization. You only live once, and it is a tragedy if you deny yourself these options without trying to pursue them.

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.