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Vol.25
Intellectual Ability and Physical
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It has been 45 years since I
started my career. For those
years, a wide range of people
have advised me about what
things are and what lives are.
Among these, there are a few
who especially inspired me. Let
me tell you the story of an
economic man who taught me
about intellectual ability and
physical strength.
He
graduated from a national
university with Associate of
Science degrees and became the
top management of a major
holding company. After
retirement, he created a
psychological test company out
of his interest in statistics.
Then, he wrote a book about his
statistical analysis of
post-test data. The book covers
data of intellectual ability
and physical strength, and he
explained them in detail to me
as follows:
“We
selected a college-graduate
worker for research and found
out what types of abilities he
used at work in the first year
after he joined the company.
According to the data, his
working abilities were made up
of 25% inherent ability, 25%
learning ability, and 50%
physical strength. Meanwhile,
the data for his last year
before retirement showed 25%
inherent ability, 50% learning
ability, and 25% physical
strength.
It is no
surprise that his learning
ability doubled while his
physical strength halved. But
an interesting point here is
that his physical strength
still occupied 25% of all his
working abilities even before
retirement. These data proved
that I was wrong in raising my
child. I greatly regret that I
should have let my son play
sports. Now I know that study
alone will not shape a person.”
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