I'm not talking about Mensa and I'm not talking about all of you who score in the upper range on the I.Q test. I'm talking about the real smarty pants. I'm sorry to burst the bubble of anyone out there who boasts about their I.Q scores, but intelligence is in the eye of the beholder. Stephen Hawking once wrote that simplicity is a matter of taste. If we can come to accept that something so seemingly resolute can be a matter of taste then we can certainly accept that there is no absolute measure of intelligence. A large vocabulary does not denote intelligence. Skills in math do not denote intelligence. MEMORIZING FACTS does not denote intelligence. Intelligence is, to me, one of the least understood human characteristics.
About Me
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- The most powerful tool we have is our mind, and if we don't make the most of it, our life has been in vain. I consider myself a thinker. I like to think, about anything and everything. If I'm not questioning something that's already out there, I'm thinking of something new to question.
A little while ago I read an article by Noam Chomsky (my favorite intelluctual) and the idea was to define intelligence. He and a group of other Prof.s at Harvard wanted to nail it down. They decided that the ability to use available assets to solve problems was the best measure of intelligence. One of them was having his house renovated at the time and brought the tradespeople working there into the study. After a few weeks of observation, the entire group agreed that the tradespeople working on his house were by far the most intelligent group they encountered at the university or elsewhere. The observed group held world class physicists, mathematicians and art prof.s. I agree, for me, intelligence is all about solving problems in life and moving on to the next one. Truely smart people are energized by an intelluctual challenge and refuse to repeat mistakes.
ReplyDeleteCheers,