PostAWeek 27: Intellect – A Conceptual Understanding
By David “Clever is a
Subset” Dysart
By David “Scoring an 88”
Dysart
By David “General Facts”
Dysart
By David “Walking
Encyclopedia” Dysart
By David “Visual,
Musical, Mathematic” Dysart
By David “Wisdom
Department” Dysart
By David “The Operational
Aspect of Intellect” Dysart
By David “Genius
Component” Dysart
I’ll be honest. If you know me, I
have pretty low self-esteem and self-deprecating sense of humor. While I’ll
recognize some of my weaknesses in this blog, I view myself as intelligent, so
I might come off as an elitist jerk at some point. You’ve been warned...
When I think of a person’s
intellect, I don’t think of it as a single construct. If you put a number on
it, two people scoring an 88, they will look very different and get to that 88
in very different ways. Now, don’t be confused. When I say intellect, some people
might think I mean what people call intelligence, which many people have broken
into categories such as visual, musical, and mathematic. When I say intellect
though, I’m talking about an even broader order of mental faculties that a
person possesses.
Before I go into depth of each, I
want to show you the topics together. Some of the broader categories in my mind
are:
Static
Information
General facts
Knowledge
A body of facts
relating to a field or subject
Being Well-Read
Broad base of
facts and knowledge
Wisdom
A collection of
life experiences leading to improved life decision-making
Operational
Intelligence
The mind’s
operating system
Clever
Novel connections
Witty
Cleverness honed
for humor
So Intellect can be separated into
Static and Operational categories. Static is more content-based on what you
know. Operational is your active ability to take in, comprehend, and use
information and the world at large.
The first things to cover are
Information and Knowledge. Information is the general facts that a person has.
Being a Walking Encyclopedia, I’ve got a decent range of Information
Similarly, Knowledge is a body of
facts a person has in a particular field or subject. This could include what a
person’s learned about their major or their on-the-job experience or hobby. I
get the feeling I underestimate my knowledge.
Being Well-Read is something I’m
definitely not. Broadly, this is just accumulating Information from a multitude
of sources. From Socrates to Tolstoy, a person who is Well-Read can pull from
writers, philosophers, and scientists.
Wisdom is the know-how of living
life and is the bridge between the static and operational intellects. I’m
probably a bit light in the Wisdom Department
Now we move to the Operational
aspect of Intellect. The main thing to understand here is Intelligence. It’s
basically the operating system that your brain is running on. The more
intelligent you are, the quicker you’re able to handle information, pick things
up, and become adept at them. Granted, people are going to pick certain things
up faster and certain things slower than others, but this is the basic or
standard of doing so. I’m relatively intelligent and is my redeeming grace for
my laziness (and probably facilitates it a bit)
I would almost argue that being
Clever is a subset of intelligence. I don’t have a very tangible grasp on how
to describe it (I need some more time with it), but it’s basically the genius
component of Intelligence. Being able to make novel connections that other
can’t. As for examples, The Doctor (Doctor Who) and Sherlock Holmes (BBC’s
Sherlock) are Clever. I’m not nearly as clever as I should be or could be. Need
to surround myself with more Clever folks and do so consistently so I have
people I need to keep up with (who won’t let me dangle participles).
I wasn’t going to include
Wittiness, but meh, why not. It’s basically harnessing cleverness for humor or
less formal displays of Cleverness.
Things like memory are going to
affect these things, but these are how I would break Intellect down. Any
thoughts or opinions are welcomed
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New to the PostAWeek?
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5, 6, 7 – The February
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posts, Chuck deals with a Batman-quoting Tom for over 1,500 words in this
three-bit of brilliance
8, 9, 10 – The Mile High
Diaries Trilogy – My yearly pilgrimage to the top of Mount Etatslac chronicled
for the future generations to tackle the peak, written article-style with
pulled quotes and all that jazz.
I really should come up with something smart or
clever to put here given the topic, but I say just go back to all of my
nicknames this week and be happy with that.
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