Brick and blanket test

I read about this test in Outliers about testing for creativity and non-rigidness. When I was young, my parents were worried that I wasn’t developing fast enough. My social skills were lacking. My speech development skills proceeded at a snail pace. Catching a ball? Impossible. But when tested for my IQ, I was tested for someone a few years older than me.

To this day, I wonder how my IQ was tested if I could barely communicate. And whether my parents believed that I would be the person I am today when they brought their oldest daughter to a series of tests (including a MRI scan). If it wasn’t for my social anxiety, what could I have become? Did my circumstances inhibit me? And why did suddenly my ambition finally broke free when I edged into third decade?

A dear friend once said to me in college, “If you really applied yourself, you can do great things.”

But couldn’t anyone?

Brick: building structure, oven warmer, steps, weapon, a door opener, a car opener, mini table, when decorated a piece of artwork, doorstop

Blanket: clothing, towel, fire smother, comforter, poor man’s parachute, blindfold, rope, chair, rug, table, pillow, stuffed animal

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