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Some people are intelligent but don’t have a lick of smarts. Their ability to succeed in the world might surprise you on the downside.
Others lack intelligence but gush smarts. Their potential will surprise you on the upside.
On rare occasions you meet people who are both intelligent and smart. They run laps around everyone.
I’d define intelligence vs... See more
Others lack intelligence but gush smarts. Their potential will surprise you on the upside.
On rare occasions you meet people who are both intelligent and smart. They run laps around everyone.
I’d define intelligence vs... See more
Intelligence is a very general mental capacity which, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for c
... See moreIain McGilchrist • The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
A good time to remember that intelligence and wisdom is not the same. Intelligent people understand technical details, smart people understand emotional details.
Why smart people often do stupid things: Intelligence isn't a substitute for wisdom.
Intelligence is the capacity to learn.
Wisdom is converting learning into good judgment.
Using brainpower requires willpower. It takes self-control to choose future gains over current impulses.
The computer scientist François Chollet has proposed the following distinction: skill is how well you perform at a task, while intelligence is how efficiently you gain new skills.
Ted Chiang • Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art | the New Yorker
Measuring how smart people are is somewhat pointless – intelligence is categorical. Somebody can be super good at analytical ‘figuring out stuff,’ and super useless at conceptualizing what to do next.
Stephen Wolfram • Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People on Apple Podcasts
Just like those lines, I think all of our various tests of intelligence aren’t as different as they seem. They’re all full of problems that have a few important things in common:
- There are stable relationships between the variables.
- There’s no disagreement about whether the problems are problems, or whether they’ve been solved.
- There have clear bounda
Adam Mastroianni • Why aren't smart people happier?
IQ vs EQ — “IQ is a total score derived from one of several standardized tests designed to assess human intelligence.” “EQ is the capacity of individuals to recognize their own, and other people’s emotions, to discriminate between different feelings and label them appropriately, and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior.”