Self Improvement

First Sign of a Highly Intelligent Person

Sizing up people’s mental acuity is pretentious, condescending, belittling, and self-serving, even though most of us do it.

If you have to find a reason to determine a person’s intelligence level, something is already askew. That’s right. Whether you’re evaluating a workmate, a potential employee, or a friend, a little worm in your thinking showed you need to know the level of the wet noodle’s computation powers you’re interfacing with.

Why is that?

Is it because you’re insecure and threatened by them? Or are they acting ridiculously, indicating lunacy? Who can say? Why say at all?

The Crux

• You don’t need to size up anyone’s mental acuity.
• If you think you need to evaluate their IQ, EQ, SQ (Social Quotient), AQ (Adversity Quotient), you don’t know the meaning of Need.
• The first sign of a highly intelligent person is they don’t need to read an article to tell them how to rate another person's intelligence.
• If you still need to rate every human being, you are obsessed with fitting everyone and possibly everything into neat little categories that will never be completely true.
• Find out the damaging effects of absolutes and using limiting thinking as it applies to yourself and when encountering anyone else.

Reiteration

If you think you need to evaluate their IQ, EQ, SQ (Social Quotient), AQ (Adersity Quotient), then you don’t know the meaning of Need.

Yes, I’m ripping on another author’s story title and subject. That author is Sean Kernan, and this is the story:

Read the story if you’d like. I’m sure it’s full of fun, insightful information for those seeking to analyze and categorize people. It may be the best story ever. I don’t know because I don’t need to read it.

It’s not my job to determine if you’re intelligent. It’s your job to be. I know many people who might find simple folk lacking intelligence; however, everyone has an unmatchable skill. Sometimes the smartest person in the room can’t figure out how to do the simplest task, such as relate to other humans in a kind or thoughtful manner. And the kindest person to everyone else may be repugnant to some.

The gist is — be. Be who you are.

And for fuck’s sake, stop labeling everything and everyone. We have the most complex data compiling processors on top of our necks to compartmentalize all within our scope of understanding, but we have a more important choice, the most important choice to let it all — be.

If Sean Kernan should read this story rant and philosophical rambling, I will be honored. He’s a brilliant writer. For an odd reason, I took umbrage when I read his title in the Medium feed of suggested stories on my phone app. How dare they! What kind of thin-skinned, waste-of-time person am I to spend a half-hour concocting a real opinion on a subject thrown in my face by an obtrusive app.

Why do I find it obtrusive, intrusive? I don’t know. Does anybody know? Why do we care that the Medium algorithms think they can tell us what we want to read? Who cares? It’s not like I’m limited to what they suggest.

Rambling for the fun of it now.

And so, in the end: Question every standard and when anyone tells you what you probably should do. Think for yourself. Rebel!

Stop the shoulding!

And get your write on!