Book Review on Successful Intelligence: How Practical and Creative Intelligence Determine Success in Life by Robert Sternberg, 1996

Abstract

Successful intelligence was made simple by the author, kind of intelligence psychologists have most often written about, were not very much of a much broader and more complex intellectual spectrum. Meant by the author is the inert intelligence. The inert intelligence mostly measured by IQ, does not lead to goal-directed movement or action. In the book, the author discussed inert intelligence from the perspective of what really matters in life. Sternberg stated that successful intelligence is the kind of intelligence used to achieve important goals. People who succeed, whether by their own standards or by other people’s, are those who have managed to acquire, develop, and apply full range of intellectual skills, rather than merely relying on the inert intelligence that schools so value.