1. You cannot learn or grow without curiosity, regardless of intelligence
2. Pure IQ does not lead to success - practice does
3. But Masculine Intelligence is knowing how your brain as a man works. It doesn’t take a high IQ
4. It’s all about doing the right things as a man CLICK FOR DEEPER INSTRUCTION
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Dr. Paul:
Yes, so he's commenting on our mobility: transportation, communication, really technology. My answer is that all technologies have an upside and a downside. They can be used for good or bad. They bring new challenges, but they bring new advantage. We keep evolving through new
technology. We have the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. New technologies always come along, and they always have an upside and a downside.
I think the idea of relationship and international travel – The upside to them that for us to fit in to our culture; you could say that culture is becoming world culture now. It's not provincial. We all need to fit into the greater society we live and love in. If all of culture is becoming more global, then we are staying right in tune and right with the beat of the music to also be global in our relationships and in how we do business. We fit in, if that becomes the cultural norm.
The downside of globalization on relationships probably has something to do with diminished in-person contact with each other. Remember we're evolved over hundreds of thousands of millions of years. We are not evolved for electronic communication throughout our relationships.
We need in-person contact because of those primitive instincts in us that are still there, even after hundreds of thousands of years.
What happens because of this? Probably more cheating, more break ups of relationships, caused by temptation and poor communication. That's what I think. There's a good side and a bad side.
Question: Andy, all the way from Helsinki, Finland. "Hi again Dr.
Paul. I really enjoyed last week's teleseminar. Thanks. It got me thinking about the idea of being limitless."
Dr. Paul:
Yes. We've been talking for two months about men's films;
films that are educational for men about their specific instincts and growth. So, Limitless, with and actor named Bradley Cooper, is what we covered last week.
Question: He says: "I think it's common in society today to want everything and to think that it's realistic to get everything, be limitless, to be in great shape or handsome or successful, have a lot of women, be confident, perfect family, perfect husband, perfect wife, and perfect sex. I've always sensed that there is something wrong with this. It never really felt
right and last week's teleseminar put it nicely in perspective.
Thanks. I now think I understand fairly well that it ismature and wi se to give your energy in some area of life
persistently and long term.
Do you have any tips on how to
learn to kind of block the have to get everything now, right now, marketing mentality in today's society and remember to focus on a couple of key areas of life persistently and long term and maintain focus on these and not get distracted by the sexy promise of getting it all in today's society?"
Dr. Paul:
Yes, I have a couple of things for you: one from MindOS Mastery and one from the Mature Masculine Power
Program. You know, there are also two resources that I'd like to send you to: one is the author Malcolm Gladwell.
He has really remarkable books that are journalistic and they are about some unique things about our culture. His most recent book is called Outliers. He is taking about success, successful people. What makes successful people? He found something stunning in the research.
He found out that IQ doesn't matter.
He found out that genius talent doesn't matter.
What he found is that it's all centered on your question. It's centered on discipline and commitment over time. That is the singular thing that makes people successful.
In fact, he describes it as if you are just barely good enough to do a task like play the violin, or be an accountant, or be an athlete. If you are just barely good enough to do it, meaning you won't totally screw it up every time otherwise you
shouldn't be in that field.
If you are barely good enough and then you add 10,000 hours of practice which usually takes people about 10 years to accomplish. 10,000 hours of practice at whatever the task is, whether it's a violin or accounting or sports; that after 10,000 hours you have reached not just good status, but world class ability at that task. That's stunning. That is exactly that answer to your question.
10,000 hours of discipline or practice at something equals world class mastery. That's amazing to know. It doesn't have to do with IQ or height or looks, and it is unfortunately for all of us, not a quick fix. It's 10,000 hours. That's your answer. If you want to be world class, you've got to do
something for 10,000 hours. That's Malcolm Gladwell's answer.
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Another resource I'll direct you to is actually an old Hollywood maxim about success as well.
It's called The Three Ps.
The old time producers, when asked how does somebody
"make it" in Hollywood; make it as a movie star, become famous? They say there is no such thing as "getting
discovered." You won't "get discovered." You've got to have the three Ps instead.
The three Ps are: