A thought about thinking

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Everybody is intelligent it’s just a case of what you reveal, the style you maintain that influences others one way or another. I don’t think anybody can be truly stupid.

For example someone’s good at diplomacy; they have a matured level of emotional affluence, so they make a point out of it and become adept at hiding what they’re not so good at.

Thus they get a badge for being intelligent, but they’re still bad at some things. Stupidity is trying to be good at everything with no regard for your human limitations. And,the chances are, in most cases stupidity is just a style that is maintained just as intelligence is. If you think somebody is stupid, scratch the surface and you will see that there’s something they’re good at, you just haven’t seen it yet.

fullfeeling:
Intelligence is just raw intellectual processing power; what we put it towards (by disposition or inclination) varies, but people can certainly have more or less of it.  An individual might apply their processing power to diplomacy or to math or to fashion.  But between two people who put all their brains into fashion, Sean may be smarter at it than Avery, and I'd say Sean is more intelligent.  Sean's also more intelligent if they're just as good at fashion as Avery, but also better than them at calculus and finding metaphor.  With the zillion things every one of us applies our minds to, all this can only come out to rough relative approximations between individuals.  But I know for sure that I've met people more intelligent and less intelligent than myself.

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