RickSeymour.com » intelligence http://www.rickseymour.com "I am what I am because of who we all are" [Ubuntu] Wed, 05 May 2010 19:51:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Intelligence Knowledge Reasoning http://www.rickseymour.com/2009/05/11/intelligence-knowledge-reasoning/ http://www.rickseymour.com/2009/05/11/intelligence-knowledge-reasoning/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 05:15:09 +0000 Rick.Seymour http://www.rickseymour.com/?p=257 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I’ve met some very smart people over my years. But I’ve also been pondering what is smart, how do I define it and when do I define someone as “stupid” (ok ok .. start the flame wars) and where do I position myself on the whole spectrum of intellect.

I have an amazing desire for knowledge but I wouldn’t describe myself as knowledgable on many subjects and prefer to keep what I know to what I need to know about. However I believe my strengths lay in my emotional intelligence and reasoning of a problem. (Although sometimes taking your own advice can be a hard thing to do).

Do you define your intellect as the conversations you have with yourself on a Sunday morning laying in bed? Or the drunken slurrings you have with your best friend on a weekend night? Does either one make you more or less of a conversationalist?

So to end it all, to be honest, it doesn’t matter really whether you are smart, dumb or somewhere inbetween, so long as you keep an open mind to learning new things and don’t believe that you know everything, cos ….. you don’t….

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]]> http://www.rickseymour.com/2009/05/11/intelligence-knowledge-reasoning/feed/ 0 I am the authority http://www.rickseymour.com/2008/12/25/i-am-the-authority/ http://www.rickseymour.com/2008/12/25/i-am-the-authority/#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:02:44 +0000 Rick.Seymour http://www.rickseymour.com/?p=7 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I am the authority on what…. the authority on myself, and knowledgeable about various other subjects that I have learned throughtout my life, but it is ones ability to analyse the information, skills and experiences that is of most importance.

The ability to pass on those tools which have allowed us to get to where we are now is of most importance. To fundamentally understand that there are people that know more or less than you on various topics. Therefore surely your own intelligence is not just about

  1. What you know
  2. How to interpret what you know
  3. How to empart that knowledge and interpretation of what you know to others

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