Without ethics you will not become an excellent professional. Science says

It is a common place in very competitive professions that ruthless and unethical people usually do better than individuals with scruples.This may be true in certain careers, or in certain societies that do not give higher priority to results that the way they are achieved.

What does not seem to be true is that an ethically questionable person can become an excellent professional, or at least that is the opinion of the neuroscientist Howard Gardner .

Without ethics you will not become an excellent professional.Science says it

The American Howard Gardner is also a Harvard professor, psychologist and with a long career full of awards, such as the Principe de Asturias award; but Gardner is especially known for his theory of multiple intelligences, in which he proposed the existence of at least seven types of intelligence : logic-mathematics, linguistics, musical intelligence, space, kinetic-bodily, intrapersonal and interpersonal.

This theory has caused some countries to change their pedagogical methods to influence these multiple aspects of human mentality and help develop all types of intelligence.

Without ethics you will not become an excellent professional. Science says

Gardner, in an interview conducted in April 2016 by the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia , commented that he also wondered why there was so many seemingly bad people standing out in different areas , something that contradicted their belief that there was a close relationship Among ethics and professional excellence .Or was it not so?

Being a scientist, he decided to get out of doubt through an experiment at Harvard, which was called the "Goodwork Project", and in which 1,200 people who were subjected to interviews participated.

The result contradicts the premise that bad people can be excellent professionals:

“We discovered that they were not There are, really, bad people cannot be excellent professionals .They never become professionals.They may have technical expertise, but they are not excellent."

Without ethics you will not become an excellent professional. Science says

The most qualified and best performing professionals who participated in the experiment used to have three distinctive features: they were committed, excellent and ethical .

When asked by the journalist if it would not be possible to be a bad subject, without ethics, and at the same time an excellent professional, the neuroscientist reiterates:

" No, because you do not achieve excellence if you do not go beyond satisfying your ego, your ambition or your greed.If you do not commit, therefore, with objectives that go beyond your needs to serve those of everyone.And that requires ethics.(…) Without ethical principles you can become rich, yes, or technically good, but not excellent ”.

The experiment also showed that a great The number of young professionals tends to ignore the ethical principles at the beginning of their careers, but eventually the best accept these, and try to defend them.

It is Howard Gardner's theory is likely to have his exceptions, or that extraordinary professional you may know is not as bad as you think.What do you think? Do you also think that a brilliant professional cannot be bad people? Just in case, check our article: Do you work with a psychopath ?, and find out.

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