posted February 06, 2008 01:38 PM         

Often people who are say, genius in mathematics , etc, lack in other areas. I heard of such people who worked for government central head quarters here. There were people they knew there who were extremely clever at some things, and yet lacked common sense or were impractical at other things, even neurotic in some ways.

Tony Buzan's book, "Head First" explains how we have at least, to make it general, 10 different types of intelligence.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Head-First-Youre-Smarter-Think/dp/0722540469

Tony Buzan is the author of the books about how to increase your I.Q, how to master your memory and is the inventor of "min-mapping".

Last but not least, if the way we behave and perceive things are down to the construction of the biological body with all its chemistry......then what is soul intelligence?

posted February 06, 2008 03:13 PM           

i don't believe intelligence has to do with those i.q tests. yes, einstein had some astronomically high number for his i.q. so does stephen hawkings. they are brilliant; they are intelligent. some peopdle just don't test well!!!

to me, intelligence goes beyond a book yet we do gain more knowledge from reading and our studies. there is practice in intelligence - meaning putting lessons learned into the who of who we are.

intelligence comes from "knowing". the understanding of a higher S-elf, the karmic debt, the eternal of life, the humility of being human, Love, the compassion to all beings & creatures, the ability to forgive, non-judgment with the smarts to know when it is best to keep someone at arm's legnth, being able to read a book and discern for ourselves what we want to take away from it while not having to buy it hook, line and sinker. the ability to say i'm sorry.

i could go on with what defines intelligence, at least for me. there are genius' out there; the one's whose minds and beings have helped pave the road and redefine. can i say that these people may have understood more than i and in a different way than i, yes. but do i, for one second, find myself to be unintelligent because of that fact, no way!!!

posted February 06, 2008 03:23 PM         

I am Dyslexic,Dyspraxic,ADHD....those type of tests don't work on me

posted February 07, 2008 08:15 AM         

also, i think this concept is socially constructed. if i look up wikipedia, i'll have a definition, but if i look up in wikipedia in 30000 years i might find a different one. so for me there's nothing as THE intelligence.

posted February 07, 2008 10:23 AM         

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i think intelligence is a fake concept created by human to categorize between people. some people are intelligent in emotional relationship, some are full of knowledge, some are intelligent in their dealing with people (could be seen as manipulation) some are intelligent because in the systematic implementation of their theoretical understanding, and more that my limited intelligence cannot think of...

also, i think this concept is socially constructed. if i look up wikipedia, i'll have a definition, but if i look up in wikipedia in 30000 years i might find a different one. so for me there's nothing as THE intelligence.

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to be clearer, i think someone involved in his day to day life without regard to essential truth is as intelligent as someone that lives his life by the book, trying to fit into an universal concept of truth. cause the former is just as realistic, if not even more, about his significance in the universe than the latter, who consider himself somehow above his real place. the only intelligence i can think of is the intelligence of the heart. the fact to love everyone, even the one who hates you (ok it sounds cliche but i really feel that way-and i've got venus at pisces 28)

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