Paul Bloom: recommendation

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…You think when you interact with other people that you’re too much impressed by their intelligence, or not enough? Because a lot of smart people overvalue smarts in others. Why not just drive that out of your calculus? Is it so hard? No. I read your talent book, and it was actually very, very useful to me because it taught me other ways, other things to look for. When it comes to choosing graduate students, for instance, I tend to rank intelligence very highly. A good conversation with someone who’s quicker than me and smart on their feet and everything — I value that very highly. It’s only recently I started to try to also value things like productivity and work ethic and other things and a certain degree of creativity, but I go too much for smarts. What do you think is psychologically the hardest trait for us to value properly? Disagreeableness or something else? Because after all, they might be disagreeing with you, right?…

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