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Here's a quick quiz to start with:

Does venial mean excusable or immoral?
Is prodigal a synonym for extravagant or wandering?
If people are equable, are they even-tempered or fair-minded?
Does refulgent mean swelling or gleaming?
Is meretricious a synonym for exemplary or tawdry?

What makes these five words interesting is what they have in common–in each case, one of the wrong answers was far more popular than the...

When she took the Johnson O’Connor aptitude tests in 2012, Sara Gorsky was working as a project manager for a boutique web design firm. “I always had this generic technical knowledge, above [the average person], in terms of knowing my way around computers and knowing basic programming,” she said, “At that job I learned how to apply design to websites.” High in Analytical Reasoning and Number Series with an Objective personality, her aptitude pattern has all of the earmarks of an effective manager and computer whiz (“I taught myself Photoshop,” she adds), but she possesses many additional...

Steve Greene, director of our New York office, was interviewed by Adam Taggart, President and co-founder of Peak Prosperity. Listen to it here.

Rex E. Jung, Ph.D.

Are you more likely to come up with a creative idea if you produce many ideas? This question is at the core of the "equal-odds" rule, formulated by Dean Keith Simonton, who has observed that highly creative individuals tend to put out a lot of ideas. Pablo Picasso is, perhaps, best known for his masterpiece Guernica, which attempts to translate the horrors of war. However, over the course of his career, he produced over 25,000 individual pieces of art. Beethoven...