“IQ is not necessarily something anybody is born with. But an environment rich in learning situations engages the functions early on, and the IQ responds proportionately.”
I’ve had to deal with men from privileged backgrounds who had every opportunity and some of them were remarkably unintelligent. While your observation is correct, I’ve also dealt with people from poor backgrounds who had nothing in the way of opportunity growing up who are doing very well. I conclude there is an element of IQ that’s like having a big penis. Either you do or you don’t and there’s nothing (despite what the internet says) you can do about it. But in my opinion, the biggest differentiator between success and failure is attitude. If you have a bad attitude, it doesn’t matter if you’re a genius, you’ll do poorly. Good attitude and good work ethic, you’ll be fine. A huge number of blacks I’ve met have a built-in bad attitude and it holds them back in ways they’ll attribute to racism. No, it’s attitude-ism. A high school science teacher explained it this way. He said, “black culture is like a bucket full of crabs. Anytime a crab almost gets out, the other crabs latch on to it and pull it back down.”
“Anytime a crab almost gets out, the other crabs latch on to it and pull it back down.”
Nail that sticks up gets pounded flat.
said to be a common Japanese belief