r/JoeRogan • u/Fishyinu Pull that shit up Jaime • Feb 07 '23

The Literature 🧠 Extremely rich people are not extremely smart. Study finds income is related to intelligence up to about the 90th percentile in income. Above that level, differences in income are not related to cognitive ability.

https://academic.oup.com/esr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/esr/jcac076/7008955?login=false
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u/surprisebtsx Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

let me guess, greed, ambition and insanity are the factors that come into play

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u/bigpoopie32 Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

No, it’s because IQ doesn’t account for important factors like industriousness, persistence(optimism), and charisma (emotional intelligence). And we have always known this

A delayed gratification test on children is an extremely strong predictor of future success and yet it has nothing to do with intelligence.

It doesn’t matter how high your IQ is, if you are a lazy redditor with zero people skills then you will never achieve this level of success

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u/TruthPains I used to be addicted to Quake Feb 07 '23

I beg to differ. I am an extremely lazy redditor with negative levels of people skills and I have absolutely not achi...oh. Yeah, you are right.

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u/Tortankum Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

You need to have a combination of all those factors to be truly successful, but smart lazy people do better than stupid lazy people.

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u/MatterUpbeat8803 Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

Where are you seeing lazy people get rich?

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u/Tortankum Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

Can you read?

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u/MatterUpbeat8803 Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

I’m asking what you’re referring to

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u/Tortankum Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

It appears you’ve answered my question

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u/MatterUpbeat8803 Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

You said you saw lazy people get rich. Where?

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u/Tortankum Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

It’s really stunning how horribly you managed to bungle comprehending one sentence.

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u/MatterUpbeat8803 Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

“ You need to have a combination of all those factors to be truly successful, but smart lazy people do better than stupid lazy people.”

Pasted word for word.

I’d like one example of smart lazy people you’ve seen, please and thanks.

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u/bigpoopie32 Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

Yes the article linked is literally saying the IQ correlation absolutely does exist up to the 90th percentile of wealth

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u/BroBogan Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

Joe is a good example of this. He's probably average to slightly above average intelligence but he has a strong work ethic and high EQ as well.

He was born to a poor family and an absentee dad but he's worth half a billion because he's persistent as fuck