NOTE: This is an incomplete set of notes.

General Notes

Cutoff Dates

• Date of birth and cutoff dates affect a person’s success rate.
• People with more time get the “accumulative advantage”.
• Cutoff dates matter.

Talent

• Hard work triumphs over talent.
• 10,000 hours for mastery.
• Not everyone is born equal.
• Not just based on individual merit.
• Fate versus choice.

IQ

• IQ threshold.
• IQ doesn’t equal smartness.
• IQ as a logarithmic graph.
• Divergence and convergence test.
• ABCD versus brick and blanket.
• IQ doesn’t equal creativity.

Culture

• Be assertive, culture affects us.
• Cultural legacies matter.
• Asian people are good at math because the language component makes it easy and the culture is hard working.

Evolution Notes

• Organisms don’t adapt to the environment. They change randomly and by chance they get better traits suited to the environment.
• Survival of the fittest doesn’t mean the strongest organism, it means the organism best suited to it’s environment, not survival, not reproduction.
• Evolution has no purpose.
• My apologies for the lack of notes on this book. I read this years ago and I didn’t take very good notes at the time. I’ve also learned that a lot of the ideas in this book are false or misleading.