Scott Barry Kaufman: Redefining Intelligence by The Story Collider

As a child, psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman is told by a school psychologist that he's doomed by a low IQ score.

Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD, is an author, researcher, speaker, and public science communicator who is interested in using psychological science to help all kinds of minds live a creative, fulfilling, and meaningful life. He is a professor of positive psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of 7 other books, including Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined and Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind (with Carolyn Gregoire). His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Scientific American, Psychology Today, and Harvard Business Review, and he writes a blog at Scientific American called Beautiful Minds. Kaufman is also host of The Psychology Podcast.

This story originally aired on The Story Collider's podcast on December 22, 2017, in an episode titled "The Science of Growing Up: Stories about coming of age" Find the transcript and other information here: https://www.storycollider.org/stories/2017/12/14/the-science-of-growing-up-stories-about-becoming-the-people-were-meant-to-be