What is the most important type of intelligence?
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What is the most important type of intelligence?
What is the most important type of intelligence a person can posses? I think it is a mixture between the two intelligence's (Successful and intrapersonal) because then you would have control of your own inflictive emotions and would generally be more of a happy person, as well as being able to achieve more balance in your life and get ahead in what you do in your life (philosophy, work,studying or whatever).
Being able to find peace of mind and happiness for yourself and people you know is one of the most important things to do in life. The most important type of intelligence's are the ones that help achieve that in my mind.
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Without that you are dead.
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Inquiry opens doors to possibilities, for one thing. One could not have knowledge in the first place unless inquiry had been brought to bear upon presumptions of knowledge, prior to it inception. to know means having inquired, and inquiry is inherently destructive, which is required in order to bring new possibilities to light. For another, inquiry has no limits. it is quite an amazing phenomenon, for once it starts, it never ends by its own nature, but keeps going into any proposition that would make a claim to knowledge, and such claims are always forthcoming. Paradigms, Thomas Kuhn called them. Beliefs is another word, short of knowledge. Then knowledge, more secure but provisional. Third, inquiry shows us our own nature, for since every knowledge claim is subject to inquiry, and it is knowedge claims that are, as with all things, at the basis for understanding what we are, what I am, then, it follows that there is no finality to the quest for the identity of the self. This makes for the most interesting thing a person can do: shut up and let the world speak. To do this, we must give up the pretense to knowing.
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It is not a question of “fluid intelligence” or “crystalized intelligence”. They are both aspects of the g factor (general intelligence.) As an analogy we could perhaps say that “crystalized intelligence” is basically what a computer is.
Basically when it comes to psychometrics (from what I understand) there are reasonably well defined aspects including General Intelligence (IQ is one measurement and the most reliable and studied of all) and the Big Five personality aspects. The empirical data for anything else is either too flimsy or absent - and even the above mentioned measures are far from infallable.
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Here's my 2 cents' worth: I think intuition is highly important and largely misunderstood. All of us possess and exercise intuition on a daily basis. Yet, we hesitate to call it a faculty. It is often associated with the irrational. To be sure, it can't be defined very well, but it can be felt and nurtured nonetheless.
Anybody here read Gadamer's "Truth and Method"? There's a very interesting account of the phenomenon of artistic understanding in it. That could be considered quite a good definition of intuition.
In short, I'd say intuition is important.
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No it does not. Neanderthals are thought to have a high level of social intelligence. They were wiped out by a lack of technology, which would indicate that practical intelligence were far more important.
Bone analysis indicates that N would care for their crippled fellows well beyond their usefulness to society. Too much social intelligence might be more accurate.
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Speak for yourself. I've always given them lots of credit but they just got a bad press. They probably needed a new agent.What I read is that they were more intelligent than we give them credit for and that they were unable to adapt.
And yet now it seems to be fashionable to say that globalism is a bad thing.A smithsonian paleonthropologist remarks that humans had long distance trade networks which could have provided some buffering when the preferred food wasn’t available.
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If Bob is straight up missing any intelligence (emotional, social, intrapersonal, practical, IQ), then his life probably sucks. In that sense, a little bit of all intelligence is important. Okay, so let's say that Bob has average intelligence of all types, and he has a choice to get smarter in one area.
I would say that he should chose intrapersonal intelligence (the intelligence of knowing yourself) because it leads him to other intelligence as well.
Let's say Bob wants to be successful, surely Bob should chose practical intelligence right? Not quite; with practical intelligence Bob might be able to get ahead in a field, but choosing the right field is not that easy. Bob might wake up one day as a very successful doctor and realize that he's unhappy. Instead with intrapersonal intelligence, Bob might be slower than average doctor, but he's sure that this is the right path for him.
But since Bob understand himself well, Bob knows how to motivate himself. So Bob might not be as smart as a normal doctor, but Bob, with his powers of self-motivation, can work a little harder than the average doctor.
Furthermore intrapersonal intelligence teaches Bob social intelligence. Let's say that Joe's unhappy. Bob, with his average empathy, can place himself in Joe's shoes. Bob can then reason how Joe might be feeling based on what Bob would feel himself. This won't be a perfect match of course, since Bob isn't Joe, but in most circumstances its a good enough match.
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Well put. That's what I was referring to in post #5oliverzhang wrote: ↑October 22nd, 2018, 12:44 pm Let's say we have a person Bob.
If Bob is straight up missing any intelligence (emotional, social, intrapersonal, practical, IQ), then his life probably sucks. In that sense, a little bit of all intelligence is important. Okay, so let's say that Bob has average intelligence of all types, and he has a choice to get smarter in one area.
I would say that he should chose intrapersonal intelligence (the intelligence of knowing yourself) because it leads him to other intelligence as well.
Let's say Bob wants to be successful, surely Bob should chose practical intelligence right? Not quite; with practical intelligence Bob might be able to get ahead in a field, but choosing the right field is not that easy. Bob might wake up one day as a very successful doctor and realize that he's unhappy. Instead with intrapersonal intelligence, Bob might be slower than average doctor, but he's sure that this is the right path for him.
But since Bob understand himself well, Bob knows how to motivate himself. So Bob might not be as smart as a normal doctor, but Bob, with his powers of self-motivation, can work a little harder than the average doctor.
Furthermore intrapersonal intelligence teaches Bob social intelligence. Let's say that Joe's unhappy. Bob, with his average empathy, can place himself in Joe's shoes. Bob can then reason how Joe might be feeling based on what Bob would feel himself. This won't be a perfect match of course, since Bob isn't Joe, but in most circumstances its a good enough match.
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By this I mean “social,” “intrapersonal,” “emotional,” and “practical.”
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