How Rare Are Exceptional People?

Hello. Cod, race, fear. Happy Monday. About one week away here from Christmas. Hopefully had a great weekend. Give it about one minute here, people. Join in. Sorry. If you hear that in the background, that is my cat playing in a bag rustling around. Hello, Mom. Becky, welcome. Happy Monday. Give it about one more minute here. Colleen, hello. Welcome. Happy Monday. Again, I mentioned before, if you hear rustling, it's my cat playing in a bag. So I'm sorry if that interrupts, but I'll get started with what I always get started with.

And that's the three things of three. So kind of a good way to take a break during your Monday. The Hamza. Welcome. Happy Monday. So three things of three. I want you to think of three things that you're currently feeling can be emotions, could be sensations, could be anything. So what are three things that you're feeling? It's the first step to emotional intelligence is being able to put a finger on what exactly is going on inside our perceptions and what's going on. Hello, Jules, welcome. Yes.

A plastic bag. Yes. So three things that you're currently feeling, sensations, anything. You can throw it in the chat if you like or keep it to yourself. Yourself as well. And then once you got three things that you're feeling, once you kind of know what you're currently operating with, what are three intentions that you have for the rest of your day? So it's not necessarily how you're going to change these feelings, but maybe how are you going to use these emotions to keep you going throughout the day?

So maybe you're feeling a little stressed out. So maybe you need to take a walk during lunch or just take five minutes during lunch to reset and get ready for the rest of the afternoon or anything. So if you're feeling a certain emotion, you can kind of channel that into maybe something more positive. So what are three intentions that you have for the rest of your day? How do you want the rest of your day to go? And then the last thing is what are three gratitudes that you have? Could be from the weekend, it could be from this morning or maybe something coming up.

So three gratitudes. Make a mental note of three gratitudes that you have. And now that we kind of just kind of press the reset button, looked at how we were currently failing and operating, let's get on to kind of the topic that I have today, which is how rare are exceptional people? So kind of just bringing research, a research article that I came across to your knowledge and how can you apply it in your life? So some research by He's An Australian psychologist from the University of Western Australia, Gillies E.

Gantic. I'm gonna pronounce that word, but it looks like G, I, G, N, A, C. So he did some research on how rare are exceptional people. And this is mainly targeted towards kind of selection and recruiting, but it applies to everyone, I think of how we all think about things. So I looked at how rare is it to find people who are absolutely brilliant, outstanding across the three key traits that everybody looks for and that is intelligence, conscientiousness and emotional stability. So intelligence is that, you know, ability to think of new things using cognitive processes.

So kind of using all of our critical thinking skills. Conscientiousness, this is our ability to, you know, be on time, take responsibility for actions, kind of keep a schedule, details. And then emotional stability is probably, you can guess it, it's that stress, resilience, composure and reflecting calmness. So these are the main key traits that when using personality tests are defined to make somebody a great applicant or a great performer overall. So when we often, we often look at these traits and look for people at the highest level and think that if we're going to hire somebody, we want somebody at the highest level who are across these three traits.

So it's found out that this is actually very, very rare. Scores that typically are exceptional are intelligence, that's above an IQ of 130, but then also have traits that are two standard deviations above the mean. So it means that the average 66% of people are within one standard deviation. About 99% of people are within two standard deviations of the mean. So this is that 1% who are above and beyond at both emotional intelligence and conscientiousness, that ability to stay calm and keep structured.

So 1% of those people and then across and then also 130% and 130 above an IQ. So what they found is that 16% of people, so about 163 out of 1,000 are slightly above average in all of these trades. So not even above that 66%. They're still within that standard deviation. They're just above average than all three. And only about 1% are above that standard deviation. So getting, you know, above, outside of that standard deviation line, only 1% are above kind of one standard deviation. So outside, so it's another 44% of people.

Actually no 22% of people. So only 1% of the population. This is a lot of numbers I'm throwing at you right now and very scientific. So but I'll just simple it down to 1%. Nine out of 1,000 people are what they considered remarkable. And then 85 people out of 1 million are what they call exceptional out of all three. And this exceptional number that they used is what most selection and recruiters or HR people look at as what do we want to find an applicant is kind of this exceptional range. And they found that only 85 people out of 1 million are exceptional in this.

So what does this mean for you? And so the practical implications of this paper found that, you know, recruiters and HR need to dial down their expectations a little bit. And what does that mean for you and me? It's meaning that, you know, what they call perfect in the world and in research is not that common. You know, research is used to explain phenomenons in the world that exist. And that's just exactly what an exceptional person is. It's a phenomenon. So we shouldn't be looking at these exceptional people and comparing it to ourselves and these expectations because again, only 85 people out of a million are that.

So most people are exceptional at being average. Yes. That's the key is what are you. Everybody's going to fall within that average. So we're all exceptional at that. There's very rare people who are not average. And why is this so rare? It's because. So this detail orientated people are likely to be emotionally stable. Yes. But intelligence actually doesn't correlate or relate to conscientiousness. So if you're high in intelligence, you're not likely to be as detail oriented. You know, if you're exceptionally high in intelligence, you're not likely to be kept on to schedule.

You're going to be more open to things kind of flying around and then same thing with emotional stability is that there's nothing correlation, there's no correlation there saying that intelligence and emotional stability are gonna go up together. It's very random how they manifest in people. So just because you're intelligent doesn't mean you're good at the other two. Or just because you're good at one thing doesn't mean you're gonna be good at other things. That's why it's so rare to find these people because it's kind of by random happenstance that people turn out to be high in all three.

So yeah, just don't compare yourselves to these incredibly high standards that we often are set to because very uncommon. And it's better to use a more. I like the Hogan assessment because it doesn't look at personality as, you know, very high is a good thing and very low is a bad thing. It looks at well, high emotional stability can help you remain calm and composed. But if you're low in emotional stability, that could actually mean that you give good and honest feedback. You just might be need to be a little bit more aware of how you word it, but it means that you're more apt to be giving good feedback.

Oh, intelligence is a broad spectrum of things and we shouldn't base ourselves on intelligence because what they show is that once you reach a certain threshold of intelligence, it's, you know, emotional stability that takes you to higher performance in the workplace or it's your ambition that takes you to a different standard in the workplace. There's a very low threshold intelligence, once you meet it, and it doesn't really matter anymore because you're going to be able. You're going to differentiate and be better in different ways because of it.

So that is all I've got. Just a quick hit of some research that just came out and I thought I'd share it with you. So I hope you have a great rest of your Monday and great rest of your week. I'll see you next week. And keep on Cadre. We got Nick Hansen on at 2 with take a Walk and you can check out the whole schedule on the calendar by clicking the calendar icon here on the app. Have a great rest of your Monday and rest of your week. Bye.