Do you think you are intelligent?

Tefal will know which one it was, but i thought it was the one above.

Anyway i was having a friendly joke in my original post, i like reading some of your stuff :)
 
Hard to define intelligence, used to like to think I was more intelligent than I really am so about average. Managed to hack through a degree in Physics years ago however that only made me realise how stupid I really am compared to say that of the lecturers. Huge amount of work and equipment has been created that boggles my mind. Look at CERN for example, can you imagine the complexity of that at it's core. Apparently our head of department at Uni designed one of the detectors for it. I was quite good at passing exams though, worked out strategies, had a very good memory and scraped through with minimal work. So my memory was a strength. I think I have pretty good intuition and reasoning skills. But overall I ain't no Einstein by a long shot.
 
Edrof said:
I have done several proper IQ tests and my average score was 122. I think that's fairly high but the tests don't take into account a great many things that others would consider marks of intelligence.
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indeed IQ tests don't measure intelligence - they're a rough indicator of lets say 'analytic capabilities' - they mostly measure how good you are at passing IQ tests

I think most people consider themselves to be of above average intelligence :)
 
I consider myself average, but prefer practical skills to academia. I know some highly intelligent people who wouldn't have a clue how to wire a plug. :p
 
i'd be one of those people who has a high degree of intellegence and dedication, but only within a certain field, and moving outside of that field i fall down pretty quickly.

at least it makes it easy to pick careers- just follow the skillset i enjoy and am good at.
 
Uther said:
I consider myself average, but prefer practical skills to academia. I know some highly intelligent people who wouldn't have a clue how to wire a plug. :p
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I'm not saying I'm intelligent (I'm not) but I used to work in a Winery when I was younger and my boss asked me to wire a plug. One hour later I finally got it done. He never asked me to do anything like that again :).

I also put up some shelves once and it was a total disaster. One thing I can say for sure is I am not a practical man. I'm fine (ish) when it comes to computer programming (although I'm not the best by a long shot) but anything practical and I screw up instantly. I'm trying to learn electronics at the moment and am having a really hard time with it.
 
Interesting a few people said they were highly intelligent but lacked social skills. I think you can learn social skills and improve them like any other skill. Listen to some podcasts of charismatic individuals, emulate them a bit, put yourself in large group situations and learn to small talk. Try smiling a lot and maintaining eye contact, take an interest in what people are saying and genuinely actually listen to them, don't just pretend you are and nod along.
 
Roar87 said:
Interesting a few people said they were highly intelligent but lacked social skills. I think you can learn social skills and improve them like any other skill. Listen to some podcasts of charismatic individuals, emulate them a bit, put yourself in large group situations and learn to small talk; smile a lot and maintain eye contact, take interest in what people are saying and genuinely actually listen to them, don't just pretend you are and smile and nod along.
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yes and no, you can certainly do enough to get by on doing that sort of thing but like all things you can't completely negate a lack of natural talent.
 
adolf hamster said:
yes and no, you can certainly do enough to get by on doing that sort of thing but like all things you can't completely negate a lack of natural talent.
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Personally I've improved loads since I was in my teens. Meeting and hanging out with a really sociable mate helped, working in a pub helped, hanging out with my girlfriends family helped as you don't get a word in unless you're willing to talk over people..
 
asim18 said:
What I personally do is, I identify smarter more rational people and learn from them. I also identify emotionally charged, predisposed and irrational people and try not to take anything they say too seriously.

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Although I can understand why you may perceive things as such, it really isn't "everyone", it's limited only to specific arguments where people try to argue against a point I've made without a reasonable, logical, and sequitur argument. It really isn't my fault that your attempts to retort me sometimes increase the perceived gap between our relative intelligence, therefore inflating my sense of intelligence relative to yours, (not everyone lol).
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sounds like a nice coping mechanism you've developed - it is numerous other people who are the 'irrational' ones ;)
 
Roar87 said:
Interesting a few people said they were highly intelligent but lacked social skills. I think you can learn social skills and improve them like any other skill. Listen to some podcasts of charismatic individuals, emulate them a bit, put yourself in large group situations and learn to small talk. Try smiling a lot and maintaining eye contact, take an interest in what people are saying and genuinely actually listen to them, don't just pretend you are and nod along.
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Wait? You need to smile at people. Well blow me down. Smiling is hard. I look like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2 when I try and smile.
 
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