Four Characters Who Prove There's More to Life Than Being Super Smart

[james_davis_nicoll]

Four Characters Who Prove There's More to Life Than Being Super Smart

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[rezendi]

As someone who is himself extremely intelligent, I've long found extreme intelligence to be sorely overrated by our society and almost everyone in it. It's just an accelerant, very far from a panacea. I've grown to value compassion, a work ethic, openness to new ideas, and good judgement far more. (You can argue the last two are somewhat correlated with intelligence ... but the legion of counterexamples makes it clear it's only somewhat.)

[(Anonymous)]

I've long said that intelligence is like four wheel drive: the better yours is, the further you are from help when you finally get stuck.

[estrevan]

Also useful to remember there’s no such thing as generalised intelligence and consider all the many kinds of thinking people can be good and bad at. Extra bonus usefulness for trying to spot and work past the blind spots of your particular culture and subcultures, even a little

[thomasyan]

That's a great quote. How would you like me to attribute it to you?

[(Anonymous)]

Why, thanks.

On other genre sites where I've actually made logins, I post as Patrick Morris Miller; that would do fine.

[rezendi]

Ha, that's very good.

[ba_munronoe]

Right, "intelligence" is weakly tied to "logic" and "reason." For far too many people, intelligence is just a tool used to come up with better rationalizations for ones prejudices and presuppositions.

[james_davis_nicoll]

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