Reading Response of Chapter 3

 In chapter 3 "The Trouble With Geniuses Part 1," the author Malcolm Gladwell mainly states the relationship between success and IQ. He says that the IQ will no longer influence people's success when it gets to a level. A successful people must have a high IQ, but it doesn't mean he is the smartest  one. On the contrary, those people who have the highest IQ may not succeed. He gives many examples to convince his readers of his argument. Chris Langan whom is called the smartest man in America by many people. He has a higher IQ than most people, including Einstein. Although he is a famous people in American, he has not got the achievement that Einstein did. The author also uses the example of a professor from Stanford University, called Lewis Terman. Terman took an intelligence test for many people and he recorded the outcomes. Through the experiment, the author illustrates that not everyone who have a high IQ can make great success in his life(pp.69-90).

After reading this chapter, I know that the author prefer to owe people's success to their hard work. Just take IQ that the author talks about in this chapter for example. Having a high IQ can make it easier for people to be successful, which is a build-in advantage. However, the most important thing is that whether people are willing to work hard. That is to say, those people who are successful must try their best to translate the high IQ into natural advantages. In this chapter, in order to make his statement easier for readers to understand, Gladwell takes the basketball player for example, which is a really useful strategy and makes be understand his argument better. In my opinion, the professor Terman did not do a good analysis of his experiment. He was so sure about that those people who are successful must has high IQ, so he just did the research about intelligence, which led that  he failed to find who was the famous people. Actually, there are many thing that can influence success in our lives, like education level, opportunity, friends and so on. I agree with the author that not every genius are successful, but I think those people who work hard must succeed even if their IQ are not higher than most people.