All 3 of you emphasize sth important. We distinguish the practical, the emotional, the social, the esthetical and spiritual intelligence at least. These are used on the Basis of a certain character which is partly inherited partly educated. What do you think about this hypothesis?

When it comes to success, it’s easy to think that people blessed with brains are inevitably going to leave the rest of us in the dust. But new research from Stanford University will change your mind (and your attitude).

Psychologist Carol Dweck has spent her entire career studying attitude and performance, and her latest study shows that your attitude is a better predictor of your success than your IQ. 

http://www.thelowdownblog.com/2015/09/why-attitude-is-more-important-than-iq.html

All 3 of you emphasize sth important. We distinguish the practical, the emotional, the social, the esthetical and spiritual intelligence at least. These are used on the Basis of a certain character which is partly inherited partly educated. What do you think about this hypothesis?

When things are not going well attitude can be translated as wants, needs, courage, and love-for-life. Then we can overcome hurdles and nightly moments. IQ is certainly good for those who don't face serious troubles and difficulties. 

Think both Emotional Quotient (EQ) and Intelligence Quotient (IQ) are equally important to achieve success in the working world today albeit there are more & more research to emphasize the importance of EQ.

According to Wikipedia, EQ refers to "the ability to identify, use, understand, and manage emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict".  Hence, EQ is an useful ability during challenging times faced by a worker.

Many businesses are also providing training on how to improve their employees' EQ as well as taking new employees that passed the EQ test (see link below):

http://psychology.about.com/od/intelligence/fl/IQ-or-EQ-Which-One-Is-More-Important.htm

Attitude, IQ and other things may be important for success, but you need good luck also.

  I think you have to add the significance of motivation and values, because individuals vary in how "successful" they want to be.  Indeed, one of the flaws in the construct of "intrinsic motivation" is that it implies infinite motivation, as in people seeking without limit power/ competence/ success.  One important reason people are not more successful is they do not want it.  Separately, the application of positive psychology to religion reduces it to bribery (believe in god so you will be successful). In my book and research articles 16 Strivings for God  I show how wanting to be successful and not wanting to be successful seems to play out in spirituality.

The question targets important issues. Thank you, Subhash!

Recently, a guest of mine got his "fortune ticket" in a coffee shop. It was saying "Passion is the genesis of genius" - a quote by Galileo Galilei. ... And I happened upon your question.

I think both IQ and attitude must be melt in synergy for the success of a company or a team. So, it is very important for the leader to find and connect smart people with good attitude - sharing vision and goals, trustful and compassionate, proactive and passionate for work... good people are needed.

I am very happy to meet people with good attitude towards life, work, teaching and science in RG:)

My best wishes, 

N.F.

From a philosophical point of view, the Empiricists already set out that it is our feelings and passions what drive us in life, not the ideas. This was the main dispute against Rationalists.

I think education is the main point, from this it derivates attitude and intelligence. The figure of the fathers and educators are very important for success.

Dear All RG members,

Thanks for your valuable comments.

Intelligence can't help if one is not having right attitude.

Dear Renzo,

Please see link.

The Simple Wisdom in Having the Right Attitude

http://www.prolificliving.com/the-simple-wisdom-in-having-the-right-attitude/

First, it depends on your definition of success:

academic? scientific? financial? political?

If a generic answer could be found in my opinion would be attitude more than IQ, but as mentioned by others depending on the scope different aspects of IQ may become more relevant

Is there any "external" way to define success?

I think success is a subjective individual concept

Put in the same situation, two different people may consider as failure or success, and only depend on them.

This holds even for evaluating the success of others.

You are basically going in the wrong direction in thinking about this.  No, it doesn't really depend on the definition.  Success is motivated by the basic desire for power, which motivates people to value competence and achievement.  It is not that people define achievement/ success differently that matters but that they are unequally motivated to achieve.  We have assessed over 100,000 people.

Well, maybe is my english not clear enough.

I cannot agree that all humans share the same desire for power, and people as you say respond to different motivators.  So again, the same situation may be perceived as success or failure by different subjects. For that reason, I insist that in my personal and humble opinion, attitude would generally weight more than IQ

Thanks a lot for contributions, Dear RG members>

With a level of competence, an attitude to work is very essential.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

This is a good question.   From the incisive answers already given, it obvious that there are many possible answers.

My father used to say that one must get along with one's colleagues to be successful in any organization.   Who can imagine a cranky member of an organization having a sustained existence in that organization?

I think attitude and IQ are strongly related to each other. A person with good attitude also have good IQ. Also, a person with good IQ must have good attitude. 

However, it is attitude which results IQ. 

Not necessarily, good IQ leads to good attitude! Dear  Mahamad Nabab Alam.

Dear sir, 

That is just my opinion, it may or may not be fully right.

IQ, EQ (Emotional Quotient), MQ (Moral Quotient) and SQ (Spiritual Quotient) are all important for the success of a person.

To me its only attitude which can take a person to heights. Yours intelligence matters but without right kind of attitude intelligence cannot take anywhere. 

Yes, Dear Tanu,

Attitude is important!

Dear  Mahamad Nabab Alam,Yuan-Yeu Yau, Renzo Bianchi,

Thanks for good contributions.

For me, also attitude is more important than IQ for success because by our attitude we can do anything but if we have IQ and not interest, attitude nothing will be done.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

--- Thomas Jefferson

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

― Winston S. Churchill

in today's perspective attitude has become important to showcase your IQ and ask your share of respect.

Otherwise IQ is far superior aspect in comparison to Attitude.

Both are important and necessary. The attitude as will of superating difficulties, and the IQ as abilities to superate them.

Both are important

I think that IQ is a very important measure of intellectual potential of a person. However, it might be not sufficient for success. For example, I know a person with higher IQ than mine (both of us are in top 3%, above 128) who did not manage to get Ph.D. and even did not try.

All else equal, a person with higher IQ should have higher performance for intellectual tasks than with lower IQ. However,

a) he/she may spread his abilities over huge spectrum of tasks, and be too lazy to finish any of them (then we have comparison with water drops that can destroy a stone if applied to the same point for many years);

b) he/she may be not familiar with proper problem for application and spend his life on solving non-useful problems, getting much less benefits comparing to a person who solves socially important problems;

c) a part of knowledge measured by IQ may be not applicable directly to solving real problems; if other person with lower IQ has this complementary knowledge (or if somebody will help with this), he/she will perform better.

For success, my experience, as a Latin teacher, tells me the attitude is much more important. I have had so many students,  with strong  habilities  and skills to translate very difficult Latin text and to intuitively grasp meaning, who has failed because they do not get envolved in the activities, quickly lost motivation or interest, and do not work hard on homework. So by the middle and the end of the semestrer, the ones who really work hard increase their habilities. On the contrary, the ones with the best cognitive skills do not developed them. So attitud does better job than IQ.

Yes, Luisa,

Attitude matters!

Thank you, Yuri,

Good interpretation of IQ.

Both important........

The attitude is evidence or evidence of the intelligence of the person, sometimes "We are in an unenviable position It remains here the intelligence of the person in how to get out of this situation or predicament for the two are important and necessary, the situation is a test of the intelligence of the person and his ability to get out of him safely and intelligently

IQ is a gift that you received when you born. Using it to gain true/complete knowledge will be the way of success. When you found it, called success.

I agree with Mahesh Premarathna

Depending on the way I think and experience, a person's attitude may change depending on the society lives in.

Eg. People who live in a good society can have good attitudes and those who live in a society with bad attitudes can have bad attitudes.

But depending on the person's level of IQ, social adaptability can be very successful in any social situation. Thus, IQ is a rare talent only fewer people have among the society.