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| I believe the complete intelligence of any human cannot be measured by other humans unless the humans making the measurement are | certified to be above the person or persons being measured. For example consider a pot of boiling water. |
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Neither the pot or the water can measure the temperature of the water because they are part of the measurement process and not above it. The methods used to measure intelligence in society today fail miserably because my beliefs are not put into use. What's worse is that most certifications are based on certification by scholastic achievement alone.
I believe most of us are born with specific abilities and capabilities but few of us ever discover them or get them discovered by others. This is because of improperly certified experts who mislead us from birth to death. I also believe you can't give someone (i.e., by training or teaching) talent they do not innately possess in basic form. Unless your child is born with an affinity for dancing, all the money in the world and the best dancing school or college around cannot turn the child into a Fred Astair or Ginger Rogers. Without rhythm, agility, quickness afoot, etc... your pride and joy will be stumbling over dust mites, and stomping on their dance partner's toes until the day they die. Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Michelangelo did their great things largely on their own. |
The real stuff was in their blood. In fact, schooling and training people without innate abilities
and capabilities for their chosen profession, creates doctors who cut off the wrong leg, judges who turn serial killers loose, cooks who cause food poisoning, brokers who steal peoples life savings, mechanics who return your car in worse condition than it was when you brought it etc...
All you can get from schooling or training is exposure to tools that can help you polish up the basics already in your blood. Achieving objectives is strictly up to the individual. Now, on the lighter side, I believe it is possible to classify the world's people into five basic types: Dopey Dogs (the worst), Foolish Dogs (a cut above the worst), Faceless Dogs (the majority), Techie Dogs (working for the best), and Top Dogs ( the top of the heap). Some people are super good at what they do. So I refer to them as top brains. Their savvy I call Top Brain Savvy (TBS). The majority of people are mediocre in what they do. I call them Faceless Dogs and their savvy is Faceless Dog Savvy (FDS). The other three classes of people have less savvy than top brains or less than faceless dogs as illustrated in my next figure. |
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Based on my personal experience, no person has high TBS
and high FDS. Must be part of the natural balance of human nature. Most
of the super brains that I've encountered don't have a practical bone in their
bodies. If a faceless dog or techie didn't call them away to eat once in a while, they would starve to death doing their thing.
On the other hand a faceless dog is always searching out practicality. For example he/she might say to a car salesman who just explained how the seat belt keeps her in place during an accident, "While I'm strapped in that seat, what stops the engine from turning me to hamburger, while on its way to the trunk? |
The bottom line is I believe society should spend its time and money on finding out what individuals are good at and then give them the "tools" to polish and sharpen those innate capabilities. Forcing kids to study and learn about things they have no interest in or no ability to use in their future, is a huge waste. When Arnold Palmer was a kid in school, a teacher told him if he didn't get his mind off golf, he'd never amount to anything.
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