Brer Fox
Slut
I consider myself pretty remarkably intelligent, at least book smart. I have, in total, studied something like ten minutes in my academic career. All I take into my college classes is a yellow notepad and I have collected but two-thirds of one page of geology scribbles thusfar this semester. If it is a test, I can pass it in confidence without studying at all, I just need to hear the lecture, or read the passage, and osmose the information... after that I am good to go.
Once I ingrain a piece of knowledge into my mind it stays forever. On Gardner's I am a philosophical learner, which allows me to internalise and theoretically apply all I learn to many situations. There is far and away not one sort of intelligence, however, and I with much humility state that I do not have an analytical brain for shit. I stayed in resource math classes for most of my career, and before I got an IEP I did a whole lot of epic failing. I abhor arithmetic and fear the day when I finally have to take a math class again.
Those sort of logic questions they ask on traditional I.Q. tests frustrate me, and I cannot wrap my mind around them. In that regard I am rather stupid, but I am not going to short-change myself and say that I am not pretty elevated in other methods of thinking. My ability to collect 'conventional wisdom' is more than sufficient. I am a knowledge vacuum and I can understand complex ideals and apply them readily wherever I go. It all goes back to the mindset of internalisation.
As for this supposed intellect impacting my life, it does. I really do think way too much, to the point of having this feeling of always being confused. It is like a physical presence of confusion, like my head is going to explode with facts and thoughts and shit. I live most of my life in la-la land mulling over some crazy shit, and it does not at all reflect in my social communications or behaviours. Someone mentioned it being very difficult to communicate because people just 'don't get it,' which I find happen every day. I try as hard as I can to explain myself, but I just get taken wrong at every turn because the elements that exist in my mind comfortably do not at all exist in theirs. It is frustrating.
Discussing individual intelligence is always a hot bed, and I will never ever say I am a 'genius,' because I will always side with perspectives such as William James when he said 'genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.' I think anyone can become a 'genius,' because I see genius as just thinking about shit, I mean really genuinely thinking about it, and looking underneath it all and getting to the essence and literally becoming that thing.
The most intelligent people I have ever known and respect possess a common trait, and that is that they just genuinely think. It just crushes me when I see people who just do not have a thought meandering through their mind. I see classes full of people who are just flagrantly neglecting knowledge. No wonder people are going to seem ignorant, they choose to remain ignorant. Without first collecting a piece of knowledge, you are never going to regurgitate it or apply it into your life.
I may, in fact, be the dumbest man alive, but honestly I sure seem pretty smart, and I can readily say I can trace the exact origin of this. I am into everything... if I read about sexuality, I am into it, if I read about sports, I am into it, if I read about the moon, I am into it. I take everything and just geek the fuck out on it until I know all I want to know. Eventually I have collected so much in my head that my perspective flourishes in such a way that what once seemed unfathomable or obscure becomes clear. You can't get much more 'genius' than that, I don't think. The trick is I am pretty dead set sure anyone can do it. Perhaps the possession of this mentality, the sheer ability to think this way, is what genius is. Maybe certain individuals are doomed to just never look beyond the obvious. Hell if I know.
Maybe if we were all this way there could be some definitive measurement that allows us to tell just who is 'smarter' than someone else, but as it is, I see trying to quantify intelligence, one singular intelligence, in a number as being so ludicrous I can hardly believe it is being done. That is taking the whole ingenuity and inspiration of the human spirit and condensing it into a three-digit figure based on some hokey test where they ask you which duck fucked what duck first and if you can identify that apricots don't belong with howler monkeys. Perhaps I am truly mad, but that seems pretentious... that seems like a sin.
Once I ingrain a piece of knowledge into my mind it stays forever. On Gardner's I am a philosophical learner, which allows me to internalise and theoretically apply all I learn to many situations. There is far and away not one sort of intelligence, however, and I with much humility state that I do not have an analytical brain for shit. I stayed in resource math classes for most of my career, and before I got an IEP I did a whole lot of epic failing. I abhor arithmetic and fear the day when I finally have to take a math class again.
Those sort of logic questions they ask on traditional I.Q. tests frustrate me, and I cannot wrap my mind around them. In that regard I am rather stupid, but I am not going to short-change myself and say that I am not pretty elevated in other methods of thinking. My ability to collect 'conventional wisdom' is more than sufficient. I am a knowledge vacuum and I can understand complex ideals and apply them readily wherever I go. It all goes back to the mindset of internalisation.
As for this supposed intellect impacting my life, it does. I really do think way too much, to the point of having this feeling of always being confused. It is like a physical presence of confusion, like my head is going to explode with facts and thoughts and shit. I live most of my life in la-la land mulling over some crazy shit, and it does not at all reflect in my social communications or behaviours. Someone mentioned it being very difficult to communicate because people just 'don't get it,' which I find happen every day. I try as hard as I can to explain myself, but I just get taken wrong at every turn because the elements that exist in my mind comfortably do not at all exist in theirs. It is frustrating.
Discussing individual intelligence is always a hot bed, and I will never ever say I am a 'genius,' because I will always side with perspectives such as William James when he said 'genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.' I think anyone can become a 'genius,' because I see genius as just thinking about shit, I mean really genuinely thinking about it, and looking underneath it all and getting to the essence and literally becoming that thing.
The most intelligent people I have ever known and respect possess a common trait, and that is that they just genuinely think. It just crushes me when I see people who just do not have a thought meandering through their mind. I see classes full of people who are just flagrantly neglecting knowledge. No wonder people are going to seem ignorant, they choose to remain ignorant. Without first collecting a piece of knowledge, you are never going to regurgitate it or apply it into your life.
I may, in fact, be the dumbest man alive, but honestly I sure seem pretty smart, and I can readily say I can trace the exact origin of this. I am into everything... if I read about sexuality, I am into it, if I read about sports, I am into it, if I read about the moon, I am into it. I take everything and just geek the fuck out on it until I know all I want to know. Eventually I have collected so much in my head that my perspective flourishes in such a way that what once seemed unfathomable or obscure becomes clear. You can't get much more 'genius' than that, I don't think. The trick is I am pretty dead set sure anyone can do it. Perhaps the possession of this mentality, the sheer ability to think this way, is what genius is. Maybe certain individuals are doomed to just never look beyond the obvious. Hell if I know.
Maybe if we were all this way there could be some definitive measurement that allows us to tell just who is 'smarter' than someone else, but as it is, I see trying to quantify intelligence, one singular intelligence, in a number as being so ludicrous I can hardly believe it is being done. That is taking the whole ingenuity and inspiration of the human spirit and condensing it into a three-digit figure based on some hokey test where they ask you which duck fucked what duck first and if you can identify that apricots don't belong with howler monkeys. Perhaps I am truly mad, but that seems pretentious... that seems like a sin.
). I find that it leads me to be quite exasperated at times when dealing with people i consider to be F'ing stupid. Mainly because i've found people don't appreciate that there may be a better way of doing things than their old stubborn ways. And i've found that no matter how smart you are, you can never convince someone who's stupid that they're doing something stupid.
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