http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/healt ... ei=5087%0A
These two articles help those of us as we approach mid life
(when does that start?) can really be enabling and/or comforting 
Used to really piss me off when I'd get told "You're just like your father" and I did everything in my power to live my life differently than he did his, yet it took years to finally figure out his disposition wasn't necessarily such a bad thing. Then, when I read the one about the relative value of the Harvard MBA, I began thinking about my own educational background and noticed the number of people I've worked with over the years from the leading schools and can't help but think about the best of the best and how they usually came from the best schools, and the dispositions all of our graduates exhibit also. Great correlation, in my honest opinion. As my wife is from the ed psych program that seems to alternate with Harvard as to which school is ranked number one on any given year, I was struck at the laziness of the recruiters who naturally understand just how difficult it is to even walk into one of the elite school's graduate programs. I mean, my wife's Miller's Analogy Test score was absolutely off the chart high and she was admitted solely on the basis of her test. Her quiet confidence and ability to ultimately explain IQ scores to parents who have had the fear something may in fact be wrong is amazing, but when she grew up with the people in and out of her own household, I can't help but think the age-old argument over nature versus nurture will only be recycled over both of these articles
Couple that with the fact that she, with her liberal household upbringing, can't stand the fact that all of her IQ tests were in fact developed by the military 
Anyway, I'm struck by the thought that out of all the great people I've had an opportunity to work with over the years, the very best don't appear to be any more intelligent inherently, but rather they just get to what they do a little earlier and stay a little later than the rest of the participants. In fact, all the overachievers seem to have some type of sleep disorder because they seem to get by on three to four hours of sleep a day and there's this internal drive to be the very best at whatever they do and whatever they do isn't viewed as work. Have a great day.