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Intelligence: the ability to learn complex concepts quickly and communicate those concepts in an easy-to-understand manner.
Mark Roberge • The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million
‘possession’, and using tools which have the effect of making you smarter is a kind of cheating. 6 MYTH: Intelligence is an individual not a social concept. 7 MYTH: The concept of intelligence is universally valid, and not closely tied to the details and demands of one’s particular ‘habitat’. 8 MYTH: Intelligence is an intellectual function, separa
... See moreBill Lucas • New Kinds of Smart
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
Psychologists today generally accept that individuals possess at least two kinds of intelligence. Fluid intelligence is the ability to reason, see relationships, think abstractly, and hold information in mind while working on a problem; crystallized intelligence is one’s accumulated knowledge of the world and the procedures or mental models one has
... See moreHenry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
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
Research reveals that the higher you score on an IQ test, the more likely you are to fall for stereotypes, because you’re faster at recognizing patterns. And recent experiments suggest that the smarter you are, the more you might struggle to update your beliefs.
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
A good time to remember that intelligence and wisdom is not the same. Intelligent people understand technical details, smart people understand emotional details.