Reflections on personal development

Abstract

Alfred Binet, the inventor of the IQ test, wrote the following summary in his book, Modern Ideas about Children [1]: A few modern philosophers…assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism…. With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.