American psychologist: Children with high IQs do have many similarities, but it’s not genetics

Since last year, 15-year-old Tan Fanglin has participated in the world's top scientist conference as a "scientist" through a research result called "Fibonacci Sequence and Shell Number Estimation" After that, the parents' obsession with the child prodigy suddenly became apparent.

For a time, the market was full of discussions about prodigies, and many businesses also sensed a business opportunity. Therefore, various cram schools and training courses for prodigies appeared, such as an early childhood education center in Beijing. The “Quantum Speed ??Reading Class” developed by the institution even held a competition, which left me stunned.

Although this training class looks like a joke, countless parents are still signing up. Although I can understand the obsession that parents have in cultivating their children, I also hope that parents can keep their eyes open. Don’t blindly sign up your children for those so-called “prodigy training classes”.

It is undeniable that children with high IQs can indeed gain great advantages in the learning process, but high IQs are not cultivated by prodigy training classes, and have nothing to do with heredity. According to the United States Psychologist Lewis Tumen's research on children's IQ found that among 1,500 children with high IQs, more than 80% had these three common features.

Later, in order to prove that children’s IQ is related to heredity, an IQ test was conducted on the parents of these 1,500 children with high IQs. It was found that less than 20 parents had high IQs, which means that heredity is indeed Useful, but not absolute. Children of parents with low IQ can still have high IQ.

1. Strong creativity

Creativity is a unique ability of human beings because it is a necessary psychological quality to complete certain creative activities, especially in this era of fierce competition and In a constantly changing society, if there is not enough creativity, it will be difficult to keep up with social trends in the future. Such children will eventually be eliminated. Even Jack Ma said that children without creativity will not be able to find a job in 30 years. .

Among these children with high IQs, most of them have strong creativity. This kind of creativity can allow children to have their own ambitions, make children unwilling to be ordinary, and become more creative when doing things. Be confident.

The key is that creative children often have stronger powers of observation than their peers. The difference between them and ordinary people is that they can quickly understand the essence of a thing. It takes a few seconds to Those who can see through the essence of things and those who spend half their lives unable to see clearly are destined to have completely different destinies.

2. The left and right brains are developed

During the research process, Professor Tui Meng found that the left and right brains of these high-IQ children are more developed than ordinary children, and the left brain of children is generally responsible for Logic, text, reasoning, analysis, etc., so it is also called the "academic brain"; while the right brain is responsible for art, creation, imagination, emotion, etc., so it is also called the "creative brain". The left and right brains complement each other, and the child's IQ is will be higher.

The age of 0-6 is the golden period for children’s brain development. If you help children develop their left and right brains at this time, it will have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort. Therefore, if the children at home are not very developed, then Parents must not miss this opportunity.

3. Strong concentration

Today’s parents hope that their children will do well in English, Chinese, and mathematics, and they also hope that their children will be good in these three subjects of physics. But if a child cannot even sit still in class, how can he learn these subjects well?

You must know that concentration is the basis of all learning, and it is one of the key factors that constitute intelligence. It is also an important ability in children's lives; Professor Li Meijin once said: "The level of children's grades and Intelligence does not matter much, the key is concentration! ”

Generally speaking, children with strong concentration can maintain concentration for at least 30 minutes in class, while ordinary children can last for 10 or 20 minutes! It’s pretty good, but don’t underestimate the 10 or 20-point difference. You may not be able to see the difference in one day, but over time, it will form an insurmountable gap!

There are still many naive parents who choose to make up for this by giving extra classes, but the reality is often cruel. When faced with this method, the vast majority of children not only do not learn better, but become even more annoying. After learning, even if the child can make up for the gap in the class through make-up lessons, when you make up the lessons, the top student has already learned the next step of knowledge, so it is a temporary solution rather than a root cause. If you want to fundamentally change, you must train your children. of concentration.