Some personal characteristicsplay a vital role in the developmentof one’s intelligence. But people fail to realize the importance of cultivating these factors in young people.The so-called “non-intelligencefactor”include1feelings, will, motivation, interests and habits. After a 30-year follow-up study of 8,000 males, American psychologists found out that the main cause of 2in intelligence is not intelligence 3, but non-intelligence factors including the desire to learn, will-power and self-confidence.4 people all know that one should have definite objectives, a strong will and good learning habits, quite a number of teachers and parents don’t pay much attention to5these factors.Some parents are greatly worried6their children fail to do well in their studies. They blame either7factors, malnutrition, or laziness, but they never take into consideration these non-intelligence factors. At the same time, some teachersdon’t8into these, as reason why students do poorly. They simply give them more course and exercises, or even rebuke or9them. In the end, these students lose self-confidence. Some of them just feel defeated and10 themselves up as hopeless. Others may go 11 because they are sick of learning. Another investigation of more than 1,000 middle students in Shanghai showed that 46.5 percent of them were afraid of learning, becauseof examination, 36.4 percent 12 persistence, initiative and conscientiousness and 10.3 percent were It is clear 13 the lack of cultivation of non-intelligence factors has been a main14 to intelligence development in teenagers. It even causes an imbalance between physiological and 15 development among a few students.