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Intelligence quotient, is only 25% of what makes you successful. iq misses the other 75%. >> what we have here, mechanisms that measure an important part but an incomplete part of what it means to be intelligent and what it means to be successful. this ought to alarm us more than it does. imagine getting into an airplane where the pilot was getting only 25% of the data she needed to fly the plane? >> reporter: if that's the case, what does it really mean to be smart and how do you get smarter? we went to the mcgovern institute for brain research at m.i.t. this doctor is a professor of neuro sc...

Should 3 year-olds be taking kindergarten entrance exams and can you change your brain as you get older? alina cho has a look inside your head for answers. and that sound. what is up with the horn session at the world cup? players, fans and networks all screaming, making it stop! sounds like a swarm of bees. those stories and more beginning those stories and more beginning at the top of the hour. hoice ho,

Your life. >> every few points you get increases your chances of a better paying job, of a healthy future, of more stability in your family life. >> reporter: and a longer life. >> even a longer life. >> reporter: which is why these kids start so early. >> can you point to the picture of the season? >> pumpkin. >> pumpkin. >> you know what's remarkable about brain research is that even after all of these years of studying the brain, researchers still know very little about it and a genius brain, guys, even less. one researcher told me, you can be really smart. you can be really, really smart, ...

>> reporter: the higher iq brain, not so much. >> they're trying smarter, not harder. because it is easy for them relatively speaking. >> reporter: smarter brains, simply put, are more efficient. >> we think in many ways the magic of the brain is the wiring, that our brains are really made up of millions of little brains all working together. >> a smart brain is just processing information much faster than a less smart brain? >> we think that's a huge part of the secret of smartness. >> reporter: there is a way to make your brain smarter and it is a new frontier in science. >> this is an exerc...

Test is the measure. average score 100. but researchers say iq, your intelligence quotient, is only 25% of what makes you successful. iq misses the other 75%. >> so what we have here is we have mechanisms that measure an important part but an incomplete part of what it means to be intelligent and successful. this ought to alarm us more than it does. imagine getting into an airplane where the pilot getting 25% of the data she needed to fly the plane. >> reporter: if that's the case, what does it really mean to be smart? how do you get smarter? we went to the mcgovern institute for brain researc...