By encouraging us to engage and stretch our minds, these characteristics can boost our learning and ensure that we thrive when we face new challenges, ensuring that we make the most of our natural potential. Crucially, however, they also provide an antidote to the cognitive miserliness and one-sided thinking that contributes to some forms of the intelligence trap – meaning that they also result in wiser, less biased reasoning overall. These insights may be of particular interest to parents and people working in education, but they can also empower anyone to apply their intelligence more
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