Belief and Confidence

What would you do if you took an IQ test and scored 94? This means you are "stupid", but also incapable of operating in a normal environment with other people.

Then, you take another IQ test, in which your score has now risen to 142. This now means you're among the world's most intelligent people. So, what happened the first time? An error in the testing system meant your score was calculated to be lower than it really is. Does this change the way you think about yourself, and how to work out problems?

Mr Le Roux from South Africa is a motivational speaker that experienced just this. He decided to use his motivational speaking to make jokes of the tests mistake: of how he became incredibly intelligent from incredibly stupid between two tests.


However, he learnt something when he was declared "stupid". It is what we believe we can do that limits us, not our intelligence. If we believe we can do something and we have the confidence to try it, then intelligence does not play an important role. Mr Le Roux believed in himself, and so was not hard knocked by his poor test performance. Realising later that this test was wrong, he knew that whether he was officially "stupid" or "intelligent" would no longer matter.

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