Do low test scores from your youth limit how you view your leadership capabilities today? You’ll be happy to know that testing is much more subjective than they told us previously. In fact, I discovered fascinating new options, when I wrote a book in 2005 to research how testing can become more accurate for adults, when we test a wider scope of intelligences.
If your leadership is more shaped by low grades you pulled through mismatched tests in your youth, this article is should help you to see your value from a brighter perspective. You’ll be glad to see, for instance, how you can recover more positive leadership results for a successful high-performance mind, in your later years. 
No wonder Einstein often reminded people that he flunked out of high school math, and that his teacher called him a bonehead. Interestingly, she went on to become a bit of a bonehead, without any recognized name, while Einstein led others to apply the Theory of Relativity. He attributed his intelligence and achievement more with curiosity than with test scores. He also attributed his success to the fact that he simply stuck with problems longer than most people stick around to find solutions.
There are increasingly contemporary examples of intelligence – that reach beyond traditional test scores, to show brilliance. Do you know leaders who admit that tests let them down on one hand but inspired high end achievement on the other? It’s a good thing that world famous psychologist, Robert Sternberg, neither forgot nor limited his leadership choices, by the low IQ scores that marked his youth. Sternberg asks the question, How can leaders use more intelligence to overcome everyday challenges?
Do you see your strengths in spite of weaker areas you’ve had to overcome because of poor test scores? You may be happy to know that new research points to more and more evidence that the tests often got it wrong. In Sternberg’s case, for example, the limitation was in the IQ test itself, and narrow IQ test scores limit many intelligent people today.
Check out Sternberg’s theory of successful intelligence, and you’ll find amazing brain power possibilities for leaders who draw on creativity and trust their lived experiences.
Dr. Sternberg found that IQ shows only part the story of human brainpower, and that discovery helped him to welcome wider offerings from people’s potential into his circles. At
If you looked past limiting test scores in your youth, what might you risk today to lead based on higher scores attained from your life accomplishments?
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