Selbstbewusstsein:

Stolz als eine Kraftquelle. Auf dem Gefühl dafür, wer man ist, kann man letztlich sein Leben aufbauen.

Konzentrierte Beschäftigung:

Stehen bleiben um sich wirklich Zeit zu nehmen, sich mit einer Sache auseinander zu setzen.

Das Vorübereilen an einer Angelegenheit als "anti-konzentriertes" Verhalten.

Listening:

Kate Murphy:

"When was the last time you listened to someone? Really listened, without thinking about what you wanted to say next, glancing down at your phone or jumping to offer your opinion? And when was the last time someone really listened to you? Was so attentive to what you were saying and whose response was so spot-on that you felt truly understood?"

Bessere Stunden:

Da finden sich Momente oder Zeitspannen, in denen wir innerlich etwas Schöpferisches erleben: Wenn wir das Frühlingserwachen miterleben, etwas Schönes betrachten, dem Wahren nachspüren, uns in ein gutes Buch vertiefen, in ein gutes Gespräch vertiefen, uns im Anblick des Gebirges verlieren, innerlich durch eine schöne Erinnerung in die Vergangenheit zurückkehren, erwartungsvoll vorausblicken ... . Viele Momente oder Stunden mit unterschiedlichen Inhalten strahlen über das Leben aus.

Smart Friends:

 Scott Adams:

"... think about how you begin the process of tackling any new and complicated problem. There's one step you will always do first if it's available to you: You'll ask a smart friend how he or she tackled the same problem. A smart friend can save you loads of time and effort."

Until pushed ... :

"Many, perhaps most, individuals routinely function below their maximum. Thinking is hard work. If my students are any guide, many have never experienced working to their maximum (except on standardized tests) so do not even know what they are capable of until pushed. Exploiting one's intelligence more fully is a form of developing it: taking greater advantage of one's existing capacities to learn and accomplish more. Like other forms of capital, human capital is wasted if not invested."

Linda S. Gottfredson

Intelligence:

Linda Gottfredson:

"For practical purposes, g is the ability to deal with cognitive complexity - in particular, with complex information processing. All tasks in life involve some complexity, that is, some information processing. Life tasks, like job duties, vary greatly in their complexity (g loadedness). This means that the advantages of higher g are large in some situations and small in others, but probably never zero."

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Arthur Jensen:

"People's environments, or their perceptions of them, differ in complexity and cognitive demands. One might even characterize different environments in terms of their g loadings."