I spent around three decades associated with the military, and across this period....I came to realize (really in basic training)...that about 10-percent of the people I was around....were low IQ folks.
I probably had associated this idea in high school but in the military atmosphere....you had to ID these folks....ensuring their actions didn't get you into trouble.
So there are five things I eventually figured out:
1. Low IQ aren't the Einstein's, the Edison's, or the engineer-types. They don't invent things....they don't grasp problems and solutions....they don't really want to improve things.
2. New landscape? They are the least likely folks to adapt.
3 Zero will-power to change their mind.
4. Hypothetical situations? Don't invite them to the thinking-and-talking meeting.
5. Introducing some new software or process? They are the least likely to progress into this period, and every step involves stress in their mind.
But here's the key thing to remember.....you need them. You can't cut them off and say they don't exist.
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We owned a restaurant business for ten years.
I hired low-IQ types for the backroom, prep-cooks and dish-worshers.
They were always on time, never needed days off.
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And they were always cheerful.
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One old fellow -- John -- repeatedly saved us by constantly inventorying our shelf stock.
Nobody told him to add this to his duties, he simply cared about our extended 'family'.
As we passed, me intent on doing something urgently important, he occasionally might mumble something along the lines of "Getting low on eggs..."
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