Jordan Peterson - Which Careers Require the Highest IQ?

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Jordan Peterson - Which Careers Require the Highest IQ?

In the video, Peterson discusses the different kinds of jobs and key personalities such as cognitive ability, conscientiousness, and stress tolerance. He also talks about strengths and weaknesses, IQ levels for various jobs, hierarchies of competence, correlation of temperament to job success, and leisure vs. work.

According to Peterson, if you are going into a job and you are not smart enough for that job, you will have a miserable time. Plus, you will make life wretched for the people around you because you cannot handle the position; then, once you climb the hierarchies of competence, the demand for fluid intelligence increases unless you want to fail.

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🎓 ABOUT JORDAN PETERSON:

This audio clip was taken and edited from Jordan B. Peterson. Jordan Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto.

Psychology professor Jordan Peterson has become a controversial figure ever since speaking out against Bill C-16 (2016), a law that adds gender expression and gender identity to the Canadian Human Rights Act.

He has received both praise and criticism after the publication of his self-help book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2018). His fans are thankful for the advice he’s given them to take responsibility for their lives. Peterson has become an important inspiration for various men’s groups, an influential voice.

Jordan Peterson gives an EXTREMELY POWERFUL motivational speech on becoming unstoppable in life, showing you the steps we need to take to achieve our true potential. If you enjoyed the wonderful life advice, be sure to support Jordan Peterson himself and purchase his latest book, it's a great read!

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[thehollowknerd]

I have adhd(low working memory) but my iq test(cogat) came back as 96th percentile. My digit span is still in the 96th percentile for my age group. It is quite accurate.

[Anonymous-rjlk]

I agree with peterson on a lot of things, but I do not agree on the IQ theory of a fixed IQ, calling a biological machine which is capable to change exponentially a fixed machine is a hell of an absurdity.

[lilyzemengist]

@0:56
Just and FYI. Manager is spelled wrong in the fourth set of professions.

[leinad]

Remembering is more important than transitory parlor trick memory games

[christophersoo]

If you want to work in intellectually demanding career just for the sake of money and reputation, don't. If you want to because you love challenges and hate repetitive tasks, then it's perfect for you.

[AlexandrBorschchev]

You need great social skills, or at least be able to speak fluently and communicate to people.

[hollybigelow]

Hmm, I love Jordan Peterson, but I'm not convinced how many digits you can remember is correlated to the number of digits you can remember. I studied NLP, and we call that chunk size. I'm not sure how many standard deviations it is, but it's at least one standard deviation of people have a chunk size that is 7 +/- 2, meaning 5-9. My chunk size is 3 or 4, which means I'm QUITE low on this. I admit I've only ever done those free online IQ tests, but they estimated my IQ at 141. I also did quite well on the ACT and managed to get my Master's Degree, and I've heard Dr. Peterson say IQ is related to those measures as well. And I'm not the only one. Several people in my NLP study group have quite low chunk sizes, but must have high IQ's. For example, one of them is a programmer who was a programmer back when many people hadn't even heard of a computer. Our NLP teacher suggested a small chunk size is common for people who work in detail-oriented professions such as programming or accounting because they need to parse the data in much smaller chunks because they need to make absolutely sure each chunk doesn't have even the smallest error.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Dr. Peterson has data to back up that statement or he wouldn't have made it. But because it doesn't pass my initial "gut instinct" test I would really love to know the data behind it and if it may have been biased in some way. I know someone who has a chunk size that is over 20 as well, and she is an absolute genius, so I don't doubt that having a large chunk size can help with IQ. And I know my working memory is TERRIBLE, and that certainly hurts me at times, and it may be why I don't have a higher IQ. I have been diagnosed with Inattentive ADD, and I'm sure my terrible working memory is associated with that. But I have also learned as long as I can parse the data into smaller chunks I can still learn large amounts of data. For example, I have tons of digits of pi memorized, I just memorized it in chunks of 3 digits at a time. The more I think about it, I'd be really curious if the truth is that people who have EITHER extremely small or extremely large chunk sizes are more likely to have higher IQ's - large because they have great working memory to help them, and small because we can see the data in a lot more detail. Or maybe those of us with extremely small chunk sizes started with larger ones and just were trained to have smaller ones due to the nature of our work.

To be clear, this isn't a brag. I know I did nothing to earn my IQ. And I also know I may be over-estimating my IQ. Heck, if anything my IQ allowed me to coast through the first 11 years of my school. It wasn't until my senior year of high school when I was taking all college-credit course that I actually started to have to do things like study for tests, and that was a rough transition. There's a reason why they say B's get degrees - they have done the discipline and hard work to actually know how to learn and study. Being proud of a high IQ makes about as much sense as being proud of your natural eye color or your height. You may like those things, but you didn't do a solitary thing to earn them, and thus should never feel a single ounce of superiority to anyone who doesn't have the trait. Plus, even if my IQ is 141, or even say only 138, that still means around 2% of the population still has higher IQ's than me, so I still don't have much to brag about. I'm smart enough to survive, but certainly not smart enough to be considered a genius, and I know that.

[jreactcmb]

The future is programming and if you can't program, you'll be left behind. A message to the young folks still in high school.

[OCViews]

mathematicians and physicists are small

[killiancohara]

Practicing as a lawyer has long since become a poor return on investment from both an ‘impact’ point of view and a financial one.

With the exponential increase in complexities comes a decreasing number of way idealistic lawyers can actually be helpful.

And the work required of a more financially motivated lawyer doesn’t pay off anymore either.

The best thing to do with your law degree now is exploit the rules for your benefit.

[allenh]

Looks and charisma will give more advantage than iq anywhere you go. Always has, always will.

[dreqm]

Let me handle a tiktok account for you.

[ThiagoOS-vzrf]

lawyers are dumb af. I have no idea where he came up with this nonsense of "smart lawyers"...

[darbyheavey]

Most of the programmers I have met are dorks…