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In my view intelligence cannot be measured. The most important skill is the ability to adapt.
Yes, that is intelligence. The ability to adapt is intelligence.
Known information is called knowledge
Your ability to do something is called talent
Your ability to do something well from experience is called skill
If you have both knowledge and skill than you're an expert
But the ability to think, calculate and adapt is called intelligence.
Intelligence is your mental speed, your wit, your capability to understand something new as it is presented to you.
It can be but many argue about the methodology or the different categories of intelligence. But your speed is literally your intelligence. That's why we call unintelligent people "slow" or "retarded" (medical term for "slow").
They all do.
Human intelligence isn't static, and it's time we stop treating it as if it is. With coaching and practice, people can improve and get faster over time.
A person might struggle because their creative, visionary "right brain" can't form a clear vision of the problem at hand. Often, this is because they can't relate the problem to their own life experiences.
Take me, for example: when I was younger, I couldn’t understand diagrams of a building from a top view. I couldn't grasp the spatial perspectives.
Fast forward 20+ years—after lots of software engineering and drawing experience—I now understand x, y, and z points in space. I get slopes and spatial relationships that used to be a mystery to me.
When I was 13, I failed badly at this. I just couldn't do it.
So what changed? I gained enough life experience to allow my right brain to turn problems into a clear picture of:
What the problem is. Why it's a problem. Different approaches to solve it. Now, my math skills are much sharper and faster compared to my teenage years.
Intelligence is not a fixed trait; it’s dynamic and constantly growing.
Many teachers doubted I would amount to much. I was barely a C student for most of my life. But today, I am much smarter than I was back in high school.
Intelligence is the speed it takes you to understand something. Your intelligence does not increase over the years, rather it gets worse as we age and our brains degenerate. Your IQ was likely HIGHER when you were 13 years old. Intelligence isn't the sum of knowledge that you have acquired over the years, it is your ability to absorb, understand and implement new knowledge. Our neurons die over time and we lose that ability (our speed) as we get older.
Your logic brain is slow because your right brain does not have a visual context of the problem to begin with.
So your logic brain is searching for a random solution that it can’t place.
IQ is useless because it’s a static number.
If means nothing.
You seem like the type of person who would tell a kid, "There's no hope for you—you won't amount to anything."
I was in the lower 50% of SAT scores. If I had taken an IQ test at 13, it probably would have said I was an idiot. I'm not joking.
But things are very different now. After 20+ years of working on complex software engineering systems, analytical and spatial thinking just make more sense to me.
For example, when I see "x to the power of n," I understand it now because, in code, it's like having three nested loops running inside each other. I now have a clear vision of what "x to the power of n" means.
I didn't have that vision when I was a kid, so I struggled with the concept.
That's because you are retarded. No offense, but that's basic algebra and exponentiation which most people learn in middle school. It took you 20 years to grasp it. That doesn't mean that you're any worse of a software engineer than the rest, but the speed at which it took you to understand certain complex concepts could have been predicted by you taking that IQ test when you were 13.
Your main implication is that you would score higher on an IQ test now than if you were to take one 20 years ago; that's not true and if you truly think that than you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what an IQ test is.
Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to change and adapt its structure and function throughout life. It's also known as brain plasticity or neural plasticity.
You can improve you brain connections of neuros via practice.
This is a FACT!
Here is more about "Neuroplasticity"
Neuroplasticity can occur in response to a number of things, including:
Injury
The brain can reorganize itself to bypass damaged areas and restore function after an injury like a stroke or traumatic brain injury.
Learning
The brain grows new regions as a person learns and practices a new skill, like playing an instrument.
Mental focus
People can rewire their brains by focusing their attention and practicing positive activities.
Read the last 2 items. Did you see the parts about "brain grows new regions" and "People can rewire their brains"
This proves my point.
Thank you and have a nice day!
So you are saying that if I took the IQ test. Then got a coach to walk through that same test and tell me what I got wrong.
Then I practice to take it again and again and again and again!
That I would not prove my score?
How many people who have taken the IQ test has gotten a coach to help them understand the problems.
Then they were allows to repeatlu take it as many times as they want!??
No.
You don’t understand. Speed comes from PRACTICING over and over again from different angles.
Speed comes from repeating going over the concepts from different angles.
You IQ loyalist don’t understand PRACTICE does increase the speed of thought.
Being able to draw PROVES this!!!
When you draw. What is your brain doing!
It’s making 1000s of mistakes and it corrects itself.
As you do this. The speed of understanding a line in 3D space becomes super fast.
What about typing on a Keyboard without looking!!?
That’s muscle memory that now you can do on autopilot from the repeated practice!
It’s the same with math. If I spend 8 hours a day working on math problems.
Over time muscle memory will take over and I will get faster!
What the hell do you think muscle memory is???
Muscle is the speed of thought on autopilot due to repeated practice.
That high IQ smart kid is doing something internally that you aren’t seeing.
They are repeating certain patterns in their head over and over again.
So when you test them. They are going off of muscle memory!
If you want to be fast at something. You need to practice enough to make it muscle memory!
Look... I believe that every human has unlimited intelligence potential. I believe in coaching and self improvement.
Placing someone in a box is SPITTING on God. Do you think that God would limit us????!!
I say bullshit!
No he did not.
Having a set standards for people is not heretical. It is necessary for certain careers. That is why the military, all universities and almost every corporation uses some form of IQ test. This indeed limits which people follow those paths but it is for their own benefit to be guided where they would not struggle.