IQ
I just fixed a problem with my web site mindprompts.com. I'd been struggling with trying to fix relinking the shopping cart to my web site and adding a link to Amazon.com. In the interim the company that provided the software I used to create my site had upgraded its software and I would need to save the entire site and then re-enter the information into the newer version of their site builder. Needless to say, I wasn't looking forward to doing this since I'm at best challenged in the site design area. So I decided to scrap the other software and re-do my site using software provided by the site hosting company. This turned out to be a good decision. I migrated the site over to the new software and hooked up the shopping cart without issue....but then...I fiddle-faddled around with trying to get the Amazon.com link to work. During a call to the tech group of the hosting company, a simple phrase the customer service person used set off an eureka moment and sure enough, I easily got the Amazon.com link to work on my new site. This reminded me of those times in my elementary school years when we were given IQ tests. There was a particular section that I thought was "too easy" so I must not really understand it and rather than mark the answers I thought were obvious, I would select answers that I didn't think made sense to me but that must have been correct because I wasn't bright enough to understand the question. Well, as an experiment on the "next" IQ test, I went with my instinct and selected the answers that seemed so obvious to me...and guess what? I became a genius (well not maybe all that high, but certainly raised my IQ score significantly). This web site experience is a great example that I haven't learned very much in all these years, I still struggle with the obvious and when I give in to the "obvious"...surprise, it works! (Guess I'm a genius after all...but just don't realize it!)


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