Is Intelligence Enough For One To Succeed?

The world no longer revolves around the gravity of perfect intelligence and a large brain capacity does not mean you can crush your competition with a force that is titanic. As the world turns it seems as though in order to succeed in life, one needs more than just intelligence. I mean look at the example of the blue whale. It has a monstrous brain, but it still doesn’t know how to avoid whalers or use its immense size and weight to capsize some of these pirates who try to use their meat for profit. Why highly intelligent people seldom succeed in life is because they can’t communicate well with the world around them. Can a blue whale raise a protest? Not really.

Ok let’s get real. Intelligence is a preposition in life that makes you think that you are better than a lot of the rabble that surrounds you. That intelligence can blind these very people from the insensitivies that they exude and how others view them. Often, people who pride themselves of being intelligent and openly flaunt their impressive IQs are the ones living the delusion that because they are intelligent, success is a sure thing for them.

This is a distance that develops whether or not they realise it and sometimes, a person can be disliked simply because of his or her intelligence. Whether anyone realizes it or not, a sense of resentment may develop and adversely affect the communication between both parties. One side thinks the other is stupid and the other thinks they are haughty. More often than not, the ones who consider themselves intelligent end up on the short end of the stick. They become unpopular with most of the people around them; they become reclusive and start to have a low opinion on everyone around them in the constant journey to find intelligent conversation. They get ostracized in community and this leads to what people called a deficient personality and a ’super ego inferiority complex’. The result? A massive loss of confidence that no doubt affects the way they relate to others, and coupled with what might have been a lack in communicative skills in the first place, it’s a guaranteed one-way paved road to failure.

It doesn’t help that they get a culture shock - especially when they leave college (the haven of most of the intellectuals) and realise success and riches don’t always and sometimes never come naturally with intelligence. The sudden revelation that intelligence does not always equate to success will lead them further down the path of failure. While some might think this is a dramatic picture to paint, it is sometimes the end result of some people - people who get so involved in this mindset and get so disappointed in the real world that they become stunted, emotionally and lose all ability to communicate with the world outside them. Their mind is immovable and once that happens, they get stuck inside a frame of mind that can only lead them to further failure.