Muse Magazine - March 2018
English | 132 pages | True PDF | 41.1 MB
English | 132 pages | True PDF | 41.1 MB
Just because you’re not a member of Mensa, or need a bill splitting app to work out who owes what, doesn’t mean you won’t outperform a brainiac – whose interpersonal skills may limit the potency of IQ. Being ‘smart’, it seems, is more about recognising when and how to harness your strengths than merely riding on the coattails of genetic fortune. More important than innate, measurable strengths such as spatial acuity, perhaps, is the belief that you can improve the way your brain works – or having a ‘growth’ versus a ‘fixed’ mindset – which is now a formal focus within schools worldwide. This month in muse we analyse the true nature of what it means to be 'smart'.