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Link Between Intelligence & Viewing the World in Greater Detail
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Ability to zoom in and out between big picture and detail is important, and likely requires high degree of intelligence.
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Hope this helped, feel free to debate this, I will respond ASAP.
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There is a difference between intelligence and wisdom.
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So... You clearly like a certain type of intelligence (what I would call a fast thinker) whereas people like me are what I call fluid thinkers. We are smart at things like chess or poker but not the smartest at a fast paced intensive science exam or a motorcycle race.
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@someone234
Actually, your reference to the game of chess is a prime example of why intelligence is linked to the ability to see the world in greater detail. Consider, in order to perform well at the game, one has to:
(A) Comprehend the rules
(B) Accurately evaluate the present situation
(C) Have the prudence to assess all potential options and the (highly) predictable consequenses to such options (i.e. moves and countermoves)
(D) Always have the “end game” in sight. That is, multi-level focus
(E) Ect. Ect.
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The breakdown is as follows:
Intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. So essentially intelligence is a brain power skill. This being said, more intelligence does not necessarily equate better observational skills. While I myself would personally like to think that the more intelligent you are, the better equipped you are to make an appropriate observation...the simple truth of the matter is that it may not be true. There's something to be said about higher intelligence being limited to speed of observation instead of depth.
Imagine, if you will, that James has a higher intelligence than John. How much...doesn't really matter, let's say by all metrics of measurement he's twice as intelligent. James is in the top 10 percent of intelligent people on the Planet. All that being said, James and John both begin an observational study of the growth and overall life cycle of a common plant, let's say a Sunflower. Now while James, being more intelligent than John, can make astute observations at approximately twice the speed of John...John in this case has spent more time observing than James and subsequently may have observed a greater detail of the aforementioned life cycle.
The bottom line is that, in observing the World in "Great detail", having more or higher intelligence does not necessarily equate a better understanding. This is setting aside the fact that high intelligence can just as easily interfere with observation as it can help it. Too often do intelligent people spend entirely too much time overthinking something simply because their mind is not accustomed to the simplicity of the answer.
So I'll leave someone the question, who observes better...the simpleton with the untainted mind or the genius who's predisposed in thought?
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Knowledge - raw amount of how much information your brain contains.
Big picture intelligence - how much the information you have allows you to understand large-scale effects and the world as a whole.
Tiny detail intelligence - how well you connect the dots in the small-scale effects.
Perceptiveness - how good you are at detecting small and, at the first glance, insignificant and irrelevant details of a certain situation which let you use it to full advantage.
"Street" smartness - how easily you adapt to chaotic unpredictable situations, noticing the patterns in them others do not see.
Wisdom - how complex your thinking is and how deep through the web of philosophy and logic can it pierce in order to make extraordinary conclusions.
Outside the box thinking - how easily you put aside the conventional notions about the entity and look at it from a counter-intuitive perspective.
Attentiveness - how good you are at focusing on a large amount of information and keeping it all right in front of your thought process.
Flexibility - how dynamic your beliefs and thoughts are and how easily you can change them when the new information challenges your preconceptions.
Discipline - how good you are at controlling what your brain is doing in order to force the functionality in it you want to use.
We can go on and on, but the bottom line is that "intelligence" is very difficult to define without the definition either being too wide to draw any conclusions from it, or too narrow to be representative of any global trends.
Personally, I think myself very good at outside the box thinking, at wisdom, flexibility and big picture intelligence - but my tiny detail intelligence, attentiveness and discipline could use some work. I have also always been strongly dissatisfied with how poor my brain is at storing raw knowledge: a lot of things I would like to remember "for reference", I forget. This flaw makes my brain's "field of view" being somewhat narrow, so I have to perfectly combine multiple elements of a matter at hand in order to draw any outstanding conclusions, and that combination process often takes year before various chunks of data finally come into place and show the trend I should have noticed a long time ago.
I am working on my PhD in a very challenging field requiring a lot of intellectual activity - but there are intellectual areas in which my neighbor working at Walmart outperforms me by a large margin. I may be good at understanding how the nuclear processes in stars work, but I cannot for the life of me learn to cook catfish properly no matter what guides and instruction manuals I follow. I am very good at chess, but Go has always been an unapproachable jungle to me. I know the probability theory and statistics pretty well, but I can never win a game of poker against anyone.
With regards to Trump, he had just the right intellectual qualities to be able to win the election at just the right moment. His raw amount of knowledge is pretty poor, and his attention span is smaller than my you-know-what - but his "street" smartness is out of proportions. He always knows exactly what to say to capture the attention of the people he wants to get on the good side of. He is also very perceptive and often jumps at, at the first glance, dubious ideas - only to see them come to fruition very soon, despite everyone's belief that it was impossible.
Trump compared to, say, the average Stanford graduate is like a chess hustler on the streets against a serious player: sure, in normal conditions the latter will destroy the former - but in the hustler's environment, the latter will have a really hard time surviving, as he is not ready for the tricks and will be thrown off by the chaos. Trump is that chess hustler that looks unassuming and plays poor moves objectively, but in the end always wins due to beating you at the mental game going far outside the domain of logic and rules, and inside the dark areas of human psychology.
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