What is the connection between boldness and higher IQ?

Answer 1

Absolutely none. It is proven through history and even today that people with a high IQ or even genius' are very quiet people. The reason being, they are too into what they are doing to care what other's think of their IQ. Most don't even know they are considered at a high IQ level and if people remind them it's like water off a duck's back. The bold and the dramatic keep telling those round them that they are of a high IQ and some people buy into it. If you ask yourself this: What makes a person a genius? You will be hard pressed to come up with an answer. Good grades don't make you necessarily a genius. We quite often label people with the wrong labels. Edgar Allan Poe was considered a genius in his writings, yet he would get high on coke and did his best work while stoned out of his mind. Even today some people feel if they have a toke or snort heroin it makes them smarter. Isn't it odd that even when any of us drink and have a few too many we feel we can conquer the world, but when the hang-over is starting and we are praising the porcelain altar we don't feel quite so bright then. Of course there are intelligent people in the world, and some more than others, but I've found in my travels and all the people I have met that some of the smartest people I've known have been the ones with little education, but great knowledge of life through experience. It depends what each of us feels makes a person with a high IQ on a genius level. I admire Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln (Grade 1 Education) and the Kennedy brothers JFK and Bobby. They weren't genius' but they were charismatic, smart, and gambled in their decisions. There are many other people I consider to be highly intelligent and some are on this board.