This mapping offers a challenge to those who subscribe to a narrow view of intelligence, arguing that IQ is a genetic given that it cannot be changed by life experience, and that our destiny in life is largely fixed by these aptitudes: That argument ignores the more challenging question: What can be changed that will help our children fare better in life? What factors are at play, for example, when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well? I would argue that the difference quite often lies in the abilities called here emotional intelligence, which include self-control, zeal and persistence, and the ability to motivate oneself. And these skills, as we shall see, can be taught to children, giving them a better chance to use whatever intellectual potential the genetic lottery may have given them.