How do you personally define intelligence?

Willshw · 2018-04-02T14:34:59+00:00

Neural efficiency and the capacity to understand and articulate complex and abstract ideas.

CIAC50 · 2018-04-02T15:46:42+00:00

Cognitive privilege.

butbutbuttwhat · 2018-04-02T18:33:03+00:00

The other answers collectively do a good job in explaining how I personally judge intelligence. I'll add one thing however. To use a chess analogy, the more moves ahead you can see the more intelligent I consider you. Average (dumb) people react to their environment...think of any kind of emotional reaction to anything you see everyday. In this analogy this is being able to see one or no moves ahead from both you and your opponent. Smart people bypass all emotions and think with cold, hard, rational logic about what they were presented with be it a situation, argument, whatever. This gets into the realm of seeing 3, 4, 5, even 8 moves ahead in our figurative chess game. Ive found that people follow a bell curve when you look at how they "maneuver" through life in this fashion, roughly lining up with the IQ bell curve so at least for me this is a fairly accurate way of judging intelligence. (Good way to interview applicants too)

1DGL · 2018-04-02T14:38:13+00:00

Focus, if someone is able to focus well, I would call them intelligent. ALTHOUGH The ability to take a step back and observe your actions from different perspectives MAY be impeded in a highly focused person, so maybe its a good balance of the two

TowerOfMG · 2018-04-02T14:49:57+00:00

The ability to use critical thinking skills to come up with a rational, logically answer to a given situation, be it social, problematics of work and learning.

Hypogamy · 2018-04-02T15:08:28+00:00

I like turtles.

raisins3142 · 2018-04-02T16:07:20+00:00

Creative problem solving of new tasks

Vaginal_Tissue_Balls · 2018-04-02T19:05:43+00:00

Not what you know

But

What you are able to do with the knowledge you already have.

treble-n-bass · 2018-04-03T06:04:22+00:00

Self awareness and fluent awareness of the world around one's self.

Title	How do you personally define intelligence?
Author	amalgamatedthoughts
Upvotes	1
Comments	11
Date	April 2, 2018 2:05 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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