The argument is for intellectual competence to correlate with the intelligent personality accounting for both the ability and inability to perform those tasks as determinants of academic performance, translating one can assume to occupational performance. A discussion occurs of theoretical implications regarding attempts to explain existing correlations of intelligence and personality measures, conceptualizing novel constructs bridging the gap between personality and intelligence, and the development of furthering the understanding of the relationship within the individual differences affecting human performance within the life setting. The implication is acting as a predictor of future achievement is the intelligent personality.