The Best Talent is not necessarily the best student

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1. Being smart doesn't necessarily mean getting good grades. 
1.1 the par-coeur
1.2 other aspirations

2.The ease of looking at notes
2.1 quantifiable
2.2 Notes are less topical today

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"Most of us have learned to think of ourselves as more or less intelligent than others. But the definitions of intelligence we learned in school were built around the specific types of intelligence most valued in school - verbal intelligence and numerical intelligence."

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1. Being smart doesn't necessarily mean getting good grades.

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1.1 The 'par-coeur'

As the philosopher Paul McKenna so aptly points out, we cannot define an individual's intelligence in terms of the grades given to that person.Good grades measure only one aspect of a person's intelligence: their academic performance. True, good grades may depend on how long a person has studied, how well they understand the subject matter, or how easy the test is. But these factors don't mean that one student is smarter than another.In fact, a student may learn their course by heart, yet have no understanding of its content, and simply unload their knowledge by walking out with an empty head. Ask them about the exam and what they wrote in the room after three days and they won't remember.But, do you know the funny thing? Most of the time, these people always get good marks, but if you call them up and say okay, come and teach us or explain things to us, they won't help you.

1.2 Other aspirations

Another possible scenario is that some of the most successful people didn't do well at school because they were always busy working on their projects. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of school, but still managed to become some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs.Many successful people didn't do well at school because they suffered from dyslexia or other learning disabilities. Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group, suffers from dyslexia. He says: "It's been a huge advantage in life because it's made me see things differently. I've never been able to read or write music, but I have a good ear and can feel which notes work together.

2. The ease of looking at notes

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2.1 Grades are the most quantifiable criterion

It's easy for employers to quickly shortlist candidates based on their grades and the university they attended, but this means they're missing out on a whole group of people who would also be a great asset to their team. Unconscious bias in the hiring process has a critical and problematic effect on our judgment, creating false ideas about a candidate's abilities based on our own personal opinions.

Our goal of empowering people to succeed is at the heart of our own hiring and interviewing process, but we also encourage our clients to look beyond the CV and interview people, whose grades may not be the best, but who actually have the drive and motivation to succeed. beyond the boundaries of one institution or educational system.

2.2 Notes are less topical today

"Grades don't measure your intelligence... But they do define what society will hire you to do with your intelligence," Richard P. Feynman, former professor of Physics at Cornell, tells us.

We're now looking for 21st century skills in the workplace, for people who are innovative, empathetic and good at learning new things. Increasingly, we're looking for divergent thinkers, people who seek new ways of doing things. Since grades don't measure these traits or skills well, Google is now one of the first companies to declare that a student's grade point average has no value as a hiring criterion.

This was very useful back in the day, when it was necessary to see if a student was good at math, or code - however, today it's soft skills that are taking over in business schools. Computers calculate and create programs much faster than the best students could do years ago.

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