Intelligence?

[ReverendLostLamb]

When people talk about intelliegence they always tend to try to prove that they would be more intelligent than you are. But what is intelligence really? How can you define it? Is a person who is good at math an intelligent person? Is the person who always gets full points in all the tests an intelligent person or is it just because he/she spends all the time preparing for the test?
What is the difference between being smart, being wise and being intelligent?
Do IQ-tests work in reality or are they based on luck and memory?
Am I an intelligent person? How do I know it? Is it because other people would classify me as intelligent?

[Sparrisen]

One of my best friends has dyslexia, he almost can't read or write. He comes from a small village in the hinterlands of germany.

When he was 20 he said: "Fuck this, I'm gonna go out travel the world. I don't know how. But I will do it." (in german, because he didn't know a word of english)

All his family, all his village said:"You stupid fuck, you can't do that! You don't know english! You can't even LEARN english. English is IMPOSSIBLE to learn, especially for you who got no brains." (the general idea in the village was that one couldn't learn english, if one spoke german beforehand.)

He said: "Either I die, or I have the best time of my life." -Then he went. He stepped off the airport in US and tore his return-ticket into pieces.

5 Years later he speaks fluent English
He speaks fluent Spanish.
He's got friends all over the world.
-who taught him to trade shares successfully.
When I met him, he was working on securing a passive income, so that he would never have to work again, ever, and can just party and have fun, go where ever the fuck he wants to, for the rest of his life.
After I met him, he started on a new goal, he wants to have sex with 10 000 women, and have calculated that i will take him 20 years, if he has sex with 2 girls a day, for 5 days a week. In his own words: "I just want to be the biggest slut."

This is not a fucking fairy tale, this is real life.

Now, some people would call him a stupid fuck. His whole village called him a stupid fuck. To me, people are born differently. We have different mental gifts. But it's what we MAKE OF IT, how we USE those flaws, or those gifts, that we HAVE, that makes up for the real brains. We are born differently. So what, if someone calls you stupid, you gonna let that stop you?

THEN you're a dumb fuck. 

[Bernhardt]

What is the difference between being smart, being wise and being intelligent?
Do IQ-tests work in reality or are they based on luck and memory?
Am I an intelligent person? How do I know it? Is it because other people would classify me as intelligent?

By my standards:

Intelligent: an intelligent person has the potential to become what he chooses to, because he is either a jack of all trades, or highly gifted in some specific field (numbers, music or broad systems, for example). I see intelligence as a tool to become smart, wise or a healthy balance of both. An intelligent person is a person who can make the best use of whatever is before him and give it the optimum shove in the optimum direction, depending on his immediate or non-immediate goal. An intelligent person is later characterised as "smart", "wise" or simply "intelligent", if a clear distinction can't be made.

Smart: a person who makes "smart" decisions. These decisions usually involve some aspect of one's everyday life, like making a good bargain, or optimising your time consumption in doing your groceries. It's also the smart person who will excel in the field of raw numbers and calculation (natural sciences). Smart is located in the field of immediate intelligence and utilises short-term memory.

Wise: wise is someone who has experienced life through travelling, for example, like in Sparrisen's story. Travelling is only a naive example, of course, but to gain wisdom, one does indeed have to leave his comfort zone, intellectually (spiritually) or physically. Wisdom is involved in decisions that can change the course of history, if an appropriate amount of leverage is at your disposal. It can sure change your life (values and the bigger picture). Wisdom is located in the field of non-immediate intelligence and utilises long-term memory.

[lingojac]

I think the use of "smart" should be abandoned once a person gets older; it's a word with a very fuzzy definition, and its interpretation varies way too much to have a concrete meaning.  It's a very casual description of someone.

[Hullu]

lingojac is slightly dumb

[Myrmox]

Intelligent is the professor of theoretical physics, who can make incredible calculations by his head and discern patterns where others see only chaos, but still is totally unable to tie his own shoes or find his glasses.

Smart is the professor who abandons theoretical physics and applies his math-muscles to construct models for predicting the stock exchange fluctuations, and using his newfound wealth to get in bed with 10,000 different women.

Wise is the desillusioned and chlamydia-ridden professor-playboy who realizes he has been living the dream of others, and now tries to find one fantastic woman whom he can see himself going to bed with 10,000 times.

[Sparrisen]

AH, wisdom is limiting your love to one person. Not only adhering to old christian ways, but also REAFFIRNING COMMON SOCIAL BELIEFS, ALL HAIL THE BIBLE

[Sparrisen]

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[Sparrisen]

They're all around me, I can't take it

[Hullu]

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[ReverendLostLamb]

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[lingojac]

lingojac is slightly dumb

You just broke my heart Hullu

[Hullu]

nuuuuuuuu, give me your forgiveness lingojac, I beg you. Please don't leave me like Lillebror did!