Wisdom is the keyword in my view. We get wiser by several means when we allow ourselves to be always learning and admitting both our successes and failures, acting accordingly to always improve ourselves. Intelligence, for me, is just our "toolbox", what we do with the knowledge we accumulate.
There are highly educated idiots and toothless sages...
It comes from hard work and effort you have to put in work to educate yourself also you have to have an open mind to accept the knowledge coming in
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Intelligence is a blend of both education and life experience. Formal education provides a foundation of knowledge and critical thinking skills, while real-world experiences develop practical insights and adaptability. Throughout my journey, I found that combining structured learning with life experiences empowered me to make informed and effective decisions. It's not about choosing one over the other; rather, it's about integrating education with street smarts to foster a well-rounded intelligence that can thrive in diverse situations.
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Intellect comes from any and all forms of learning. This means learning about academia and how to work with it in the classical education sense and also learning about the subtle interactions that happen outside of school in the street sense. Neither form of intellect is “greater” than another, both can be utilized for personal and societal gain.
Intelligence is influenced by both genetics and environmental factors, with a strong role for both. While genetics may contribute to a baseline level of intelligence, environmental influences like home environment, parenting, education, and healthcare can significantly impact how that potential is realized.
Here's a more detailed explanation:
Genetics:
Studies suggest that intelligence has a genetic component, meaning that individuals inherit genes that contribute to their cognitive abilities. However, no single "intelligence gene" has been identified, and multiple genes likely play a role. Some research suggests that genes related to intelligence are more prevalent on the X chromosome.
Environment:
The environment in which a child develops also plays a crucial role in shaping their intelligence. Factors like home environment, parenting style, educational resources, and healthcare can all influence a child's cognitive development.
Nature vs. Nurture:
The interplay between genetics and environment is complex, and both are essential for intelligence. Genetics may set the stage for intellectual capacity, but the environment determines how that capacity is realized.
In essence, intelligence is not solely determined by either genes or environment, but rather by the interaction between them.
Today, scientists agree that both genetics and environment impact the physical development of the brain and the cognitive development of the mind which ultimately determines intelligence. Our genetics may provide us with an intellectual capacity, but our environment determines if we reach our potential.
High intelligence, or "genius," isn't solely determined by genetics; it's a complex interplay of both genetic predisposition and environmental factors. While some studies suggest a genetic component, scientists have not conclusively identified any single genes that significantly impact intelligence. The environment, including home environment, parenting, education, and healthcare, also plays a crucial role in shaping intelligence.
Main forms of writing or relaying info on papyrus… stone.. were ways of life. Tradition. If not themselves directly these writers wrote of people close to them who had street smarts. Not all did well on those streets of course.
Mappers of every sort. Geographical, war/tactical, etc etc.
Even those who seem to invent or create in math and on and on were on their own level of street and using some info written by others before them who had their own fair share of time on the street.
Before the street was the forests and the predators, prey, hunger, sickness, foes, and on and on.
And people wrote about this. If we never learned to write and make language there would BE NO book smart.
If we remember to pass on and partake from others’ shared experiences and conclusions. Then we get better and better. It will always be both. If someone on street would make use of street survival points written by a few others they will be well equipped. But it won’t guarantee their success. They may have all the knowledge of karate but if they can’t take courage and think of what to do in the right timeframe then it will be the equivalent of papers buried in the sand. It either stays buried in a cave. Buried in our mind. Or actively used.
Both are parts of the same coin, and make a pretty good final product. Everyone can benefit from balancing both. For sure.
It definitely includes both, but started and always starts with street smart. That’s developed. How we respond to situations. That requires intelligence. And even if we don’t write what we learn down it’s written in our memory. So we make use of book smart but it’s like Anne book a psychological book. So can’t have one without the other. Decisions made and reference books.
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Also the buried in mind is forgotten
And the written in mind is when we “reread” and look over. Make use of that info. So I seemed to repeat the phrase but meant two different things.
Also those who create and write I meant like Isaac newton and all. Scientists. Mathematicians. Albert Einstein. Benjamin Franklin. Their street smart made way for books and writings left behind/ passed on for others.
Jane Goodall had street smarts “ “ with chimpanzees. Without her revelations and contributions we would be able to have book smarts in such amounts as we have now.
Everyone would have to try and learn what they could in their own experiences and make their own choices about. So having both is beneficial
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I'm of the opinion that there's not one single answer to this question, as intelligence in itself can be multifaceted and complex. It's no coincidence that there are many diverse definitions of what constitutes intelligence. Even scientists haven't come to an agreement, or reached a consensus on the term. For example, there are people, who have a very high lexile level and utilize an elaborate and sophisticated vocabulary, yet don't perform equally well in mathematics, or natural sciences.. Also, you have individuals, who are highly-creative and are able to effortlessly come up with novel ideas and solutions to a range of problems. Then there are those with high emotional intelligence, who can easily put themselves in other people's shoes, understand and recognize their feelings. Some mathematical geniuses cannot navigate through simple life conundrums, while some individuals with low I. Q. scores can look at a real-life problem and find the solution that a committee of really intelligent people cannot recognize.
For some of these types of intelligence receiving a quality academic/formal education matters more (for example, by studying a lot of books, you enrichen your vocabulary with new words), whereas for others being street smart is equally important. For instance, empathy, which consistutes one of the key traits of emotional intelligence, can be fostered through reading fiction stories and novels by simulating aspects of real life and putting yourself on the characters' shoes, but it's also correlated with one's real-life experiences, background and upbringing.
I feel like the question is asking more about learning than about intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to learn, retain what you’ve learned and, i would argue, effectively apply it. However, i am a product of the US public education system that focuses very little on that last part.
This used to be done exclusively through experience. Before we evolved to communicate verbally and later with the written word, everything was learned through experience. This is part of why we tend to view as less intelligent animals, including human babies and children, that don’t communicate the way we do. There is an argument that suggests being less learned is not the same as being less intelligent. I am of that mind.
I think the transfer of information is superior to experience in some ways, and experience is superior in others. Would you rather learn that something is poisonous by eating it yourself, or by hearing it from someone you trust?
Did you learn everything you needed to know about driving from classroom instruction, or was it beneficial to get behind the wheel?
Unfortunately ignorance has been turned into an insult. Merely suggesting someone has something to learn about anything tends to make people act more ignorant. Especially when you criticize the means by which they learned or failed to learn.
Intelligence doesn't come from formal education or the streets. Those things only provide knowledge, facts, and experience. Tools. Intelligence is innate. Your mind can either use knowledge, facts, and experience or it cannot. The tools are wasted on some people.
You can't take a student who gets F's in math and educate them to understand differential equations or physics. Likewise, some people will do well on the streets and some will live in misery forever no matter how much life experience they endure.
There are old sayings. "You can't fix stupid." and, "Stupid is forever." Education and experience is simply wasted on people without the capacity to connect the dots. Intelligence is the innate ability to connect the dots and extrapolate new connections without any book or further experience.
I think school education/indoctrination has some small influence but you can meat a lot of people with limited horizon who have a doctor title. Being a drug dealer in a ghetto gives someone surely some advantage in knowledge about their customers and opponents but I doubt it's usable general knowledge for entire population where people play just different games with different more complicated rules.
I think highest factor on your IQ has the IQ of your mother and grand mother. Genes of fathers have lesser influence on mental capacity. What fathers can give is being a long time mentor who shapes his children from time they open their eyes to the time they leave the nest.
None of those. It comes from your brain. You are born with a brain and genes that dictate how your brain will work. Your environment can certainly influence how much you learn. But it's how you rationalize, how you think and are able to manipulate information in your mind so that you can understand it, that determines how intelligent you are. Take a baby born with Downs Syndrome. Because of the condition, there is only so much that baby can learn. Take a "normal" baby and put it in an environment that is very limited, and that baby will not learn much even though it can.
i would say both although intelligence and wisdom are not the same to me and i wanna make that clear to me intelligence is knowing what to do in a situation and wisdom is applying that knowledge for instance i can know all about math and have taken every math class ever but if i wanna be an architect and dont know how to apply the math i learned into my job there is no point in taking those classes just like you can be very intelligent because you know what to do if someone is trying to beat you up but if you can't apply that knowledge you are going to get beat up and this is where most people take a turn because quite a few people are intelligent they just dont know how to apply that intelligence towards the task at hand. so what am I saying? in short I am saying you might know how to do something but if you can't do it effectively you might as well forget learning the skill
Intelligence is inherent. You're born with a set amount of intelligence. KNOWLEDGE is what is gained throughout life. You can gain knowledge through experiences. Experiences can come in many forms. Reading, socializing, seeing, tasting, etc.
The amount of intelligence we have since birth dictates how quickly we learn and gain knowledge. And the more knowledge you have, the faster your growth becomes. That's why hard work beats talent if talent doesn't work. But if talent works hard, there's nothing that beats that combination.
None of these if we are talking of general intelligence which is more regarded as fixed inherent capability.
You can learn stuff through perspiration but it may take you longer if you are lower IQ compared to someone who is higher IQ but has the same dedication. It is not book learning.
Interestingly IQ correlates quite well with reaction time. As in how quickly you respond to a specific stimuli. It might relate to the clock speed of your brain and nervous system to put it in IT terms.
80% genes, 20% hard work. being well read, educated and cultured has nothing to do with intelligence. that's all experience and knowlegde. having experience and knowlegde is not at all dependend on intelligence unless you're talking about how much of it can be acquired in a short time. intelligence is defined as the ability to gain knowledge fast and apply and transform that knowlegde to solve new problems efficiently. everyone can solve any problem given infinite time. so just the knowlegde itself doesn't define intelligence.
a less intelligent person can be more well read, well cultured and well educated, than a more intelligent person if the more intelligent person spent no time acquiring these things.
Intelligence mainly is planted during childhood.
It's a mix of personal stimulation and of ''genetical'' disposition.
''Culture'', ''Education'' and ''reading'' may then contribute and reinforce intelligence.
To only rely on it through life experience is like watching a train leaving the station without oneself - you ''understand''... but you missed the trip anyway.
Intelligence is the ability to understand and reason but it hasn't been well defined. A pet can be intelligent about some things, despite never having read or gone to school.
Ai (as we currently have it) isn't intelligent at all. it is just capable of using words which goes to show that speaking doesn't require a brain.
Neither intelligence is just potential to comprehend. Even before i read stuff, at age 4 my intelligence was measurde, and so high that they refused to tell me how high until later.
If it was experience in life or study, then wouldn't measure kids.
Knowledge is by study but not by street smart.
Intelligence is literally the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. It’s a potential , whether applied in an educational sense or environmental like street smarts due to a situation being imposed upon a person that requires cognitive ability to work through or past.
Intelligence is thought to be hereditary in part , and so passed genetically , but additionally learned from the environment and the interplay between both
It's genetic, though if your asking why does IQ has increased on average that's due to evolution but even more so pushing ourselves.
Pushing overselves, with tools and answers. We solve things but then there is always another thing to solve therefore we need to increase our IQ to solve the next problem.
So education does this by giving us tons of stuff we need to solve. But so does experience through life. Therefore it's both really but on a long time scale.
m I believe (and I'm not the only one lol) that intelligence develops from stimulating curiosity, early on, any child wonders about their surroundings. They ask questions, all the time. Take a child, listen to them asking questions, do not answer questions, then look at them becoming dumb kids, dumb teens, dumb adults, dumb elders
Dumb elders... Dumble... Dumbledore? I digress.
Oh another way to produce dumb adults is to discourage them to ask questions, giving them silent treatment is just one way. You can also make use of a religious discourse, to teach them that all questions have already been answered by the Bible, it's effective !
I Think it's a little bit of everything I think as you grow you become aware of everything
When doing so you learn how to read it and you adapt from learning and watching people and the environment or settings that your in I think with some people there brain never really shuts down
I'm not very well read at all but, most often, while watching, "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" I got nearly every question right!! Quite a lot of it is observation and logic. I've always been very astute or at least used common sense when it comes to fixing or building things.
Neither of those things.
Intelligence comes from a combination of genetics and proper nutrition.
You're talking about knowledge, which is something intelligence can be applied to, but isn't technically intelligence itself... for the same reason ignorance (lack of knowledge) isn't the same as stupidity (lack of intelligence).
well its just your ability to learn stuff, memorize, and critically think
so a lot of its genes but if you're going off tests then A LOT of it is bc of your background/education. its not even funny how big of a difference that makes
It's genetic. You can't teach a Somali with an average iq of 58 basic knowledge of an Irishman with an average Iq of 110 let alone an idiot like me with an iq of 123. It's like training a dog. There are levels. and some humans are barely human especially when an actual gorilla has 10 points more IQ than a Somali
Intelligence comes from pattern recognition. The more you read and travel, the more patterns you pick up on.
Wisdom is applying knowledge to life in ways that go "with the grain" of the universe.
It comes from sensory organs interacting with the world and the brain and effectively, and translating that information in ways that work and are comprehended.
Jensen Huang would probably say intelligence comes from Nvidia.
The more you buy, the more intelligent you are.
A combination along with biology which also plays a factor.
Being curious is a sign of intelligence and when action follows that curiosity it brings intelligence to life
genes mainly. but educating yourself can help improve that
Education. Many people have never picked up a book these days. Unfortunate.
I would say true intelligence is a combination of both formal knowledge and lived experience. Each sharpens different kinds of thinking.
It certainly isn't overflowing in our government at the present time!
Intelligence comes from genetics. It quite literally is the result of a brain that works more quickly and efficiently than those of other people. That is the result of good genetics and luck!
It comes from finding out... which in turn comes from f#$%ing around
You haven't asked about intelligence, you have asked about knowledge.
It's ez. Curiosity necessarily leads to an intelligence life
I think it's a combination of genetics and well-read & well-educated.
Learn the basics, then apply them, improve on them if you can. I'd say that's a blend.
Education from proper sources, always learning, double checking information from the source, and self-reflection.
I think intelligence come from experience and school. Plus those super geniuses what so us not what to do.
Neither.
Someone has to show interest first and that effort comes from within.
I don’t know exactly but I would never go within miles of someone who pretends to be good
A combination of of the two but with real world sims experience too…. lol.
Intelligence actually doesn’t come from any of these sources, intelligence is natural.
the result of living conditions and the environment
I think experience plays the major role
@Simslover92 combination and social too
Nature and nurture. Just like most traits
I say both. Gain more as you age too.
From seed to fruition
It’s equal
Genetics.
Fuck formal education
ROFL, why am I not surprised at all. Ah don't need me no book learnin. Ah kin fail all by myself.
Combo.
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