Billy Oppenheimer

SIX at 6: Intelligence Follows Interest, A Terrible Attention Span, A Disagreeable Task, C.S. Lewis’s Advice, A Way To Think of Success, and The General (opens in new tab)

Intelligence Follows Interest The psychologist Angela Duckworth talks about how intelligence follows interest. “This is why I say,” she said, “I can be very dumb about things that I’m not interested in, and I can be extremely smart about the things that I am interested in…If you talk to me about something that I am not […]

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