I was classed as developmentally delayed as a child, I had a neglectful childhood. I think I’m a survivalist. I look at some of my peers and they’ve had more stable childhoods than me but still ended up wil drug and alcohol dependencies and prison time. I have a very good life even without a education. Do you think it’s down to acidemic intelligence or is it more emotional intelligence?
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Hmmm. Idk. I think living in an abusive home slows your growth.
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Emotional intelligence is supposed to be a good predictor of success
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I’m a slow learner. I almost failed in elementary school but it was because of video games and poor schools. I ended up attending a top university. If I didn’t have SZA I would have graduated. So yes, you can be slow as a kid but smarter as an adult. It takes hard work. Some kids mature differently. There are a lot of factors like what age you are compared with your peers.
The brain is plastic and IQ can change.
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I think you can. I don’t think it’s about what you accomplished in school that makes or breaks your intelligence. I think a person could be stunted from abuse but not necessarily for all their life. I think it is possible to grow a lot intelligence wise later on in life. I think academics can help a person grow intelligence but so can emotional intelligence. Plus a person can learn a lot on their own depending on what they read and experience and their environment and all kinds of other ways I believe.
What really is intelligence? Are there different kinds? If so, are they academic, common sense, emotional, ethical, street smarts. Can anyone think of any others? One may be intelligent in different ways I think. It’s boundless really if you ask me. How does one define intelligence?
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Yes, I think you can be a slow learner as a child but intelligent as an adult.
I also think you can be intelligent as a child but a slow learner as an adult (what happened to me, I was very bright and a fast learner when I was young, now I’m unable to even read due to MI)
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It’s never too late to learn. We never stop learning.
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I’m like you in this way too @valiumprincess. But, very thankfully, it hasn’t affected my reading. Although I have no memory of what I read.
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I think it can work either way ie you can start off well then do worse or start off worse then do better. With me I started off well , and then around the age of 9 went into an academic tail spin for the next 10 years until I left school by going into the psych hospital for the first time. In my case,on hindsight, with the research I’ve done, I blame it on the negative impact of undiagnosed learning difficulties for which I got no help and support.
As for the OP he’s always struck me as more than intelligent enough . I would agree also with those that say EQ matters as well as IQ. A highly intelligent person with high EQ will do better than one with low EQ.
@bobbilly … It’s like someone who was shy as a kid becoming a socialite as an adult. Environment is a huge factor… in basically everything… environment can be overcame, but most everyone are just sort of stuck with the natural process of being shaped by what’s around them.
There also might be fundamental hurtles for a young person… like reading… that develop over time… even if said individual could understand everything… just couldn’t read.
Emotional intelligence probably has a higher capacity to make stronger social bonds and have a better sense of one’s long term self. It’s not really one or another… as intellect itself is a powerful tool when it comes time to get things done. If you’re only going to go for one though… I think EQ is more important as it is more fundamental to the nature of being a human… (and beyond that there are a ■■■■ load of challenges that the highly intelligent of the world face in life that are totally disrespected and invalid.)
It’s like this… the smart man gets to feel smarter than everyone else… it’s latent to his being that occurs… because he gets to feel “better” than everyone else… no one is concerned with helping him because it’s already unfair… and I’m talking about the struggle of finding one’s place in life. High EQ folk has it easier so long as life is good to them. High IQ folks often create a ■■■■ load of issues for themselves and other people.
Either way pulling off some snappy smart stuff at times or getting things put together in a real good way… those are sort of stress relieving occurrences.
This is more a personal reflection on the nature of that relation… “Man I get so tired of dealing with these idiots who just love each others idiocy and they are constantly just making befuddled messes everywhere… they aren’t capable of better without effort… and that effort only surfaced when they are getting paid. Damn it! I wish I could just be one of them… but I just have some many issues… how do I keep this dumb head of mine content… it’s like a full time job trying to keep reasonable things to think about around.”… then my mind does something snappy and I’m like… “oh ok… well that’s cool…” Let’s me like being me for a moment every once in a while.
This is actually the case for most people… Whether it’s a biological shift or they just decide to stop caring is something I still can’t determine.
This wiki page talks a lot about memory/internal imagery… which are probably better signs for measuring high intelligence than tests. It also states that while most kids demonstrate eidetic capacities… this capability just drops off for most adults.
It’s funny though. It’s like the brain has all this potential power… and then once it really sorts out the least amount of stuff it actually has to do… it then restricts itself to doing nothing else. I think “growing up” or “getting a job” highly correspond to this dumbing down effect… a brain trained by routines and expectations…lol
… it seems so alien from the outside.
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that’s the worst part about it lol…
I’ll focus on the content until I get into it… then the pace picks up so I relax… then I read about 3 paragraphs and recognize I don’t remember any of it.
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