“Is it worth studying a course of botany in detail or reading all of Tolstoy? parents often ask. “After all, this knowledge is unlikely to be needed by every child in the future…”
It turns out that the abilities that help you be successful at school later lead to success at work, psychologists from the universities of Illinois and Minnesota (USA) Nathan R. Kuncel and Sarah A. Hezlett confirmed. They analyzed 126 of the largest studies of the relationship between intelligence and professional success, in which more than 20 people participated. It turned out that the so-called g-factor – overall mental energy – really affects our educational and professional success. So it makes sense to spend time at school and college on the development of primary intellectual abilities: memory, perception, spatial imagination, verbal flexibility, the ability to reason, so that they feed the rest of your life.