Do you consider yourself intelligent?

wally1990

I work in an accountants and some of the staff are very smart but they also spend so much time studying and working.

Have worked in other roles/fields and have come across absolute idiots of co workers.

Personally, I wouldn't consider myself intelligent at all!
I like to believe I work hard and I am open to learning all the time and taking feedback.
I love to obtain new knowledge and skills . I think I pick up on things quite fast

But how about you?
Do you struggle in certain areas and excel in others?
Have you spent your life studying and learning so have no practical experience?
Are you more hands on rather than book smart?

Would you consider intelligent in your field/profession etc?
How do you think your co workers view you?

How would you define someone as being intelligent?

Lady is a tramp

I often say that I'm book-smart but that I'd much rather be life-smart and street-smart.

The book-smart bit is indisputable really, I've very high Leaving Cert and IQ results and a first class honours degree etc. It counts for so little in some ways. In other ways I know I should appreciate it more. I mean I'll never not get a job. And that's handy like.

I'd still rather normal intelligence and better interpersonal skills, though!

Wanderer78

define intelligents? i do believe most if not all humans show some evidence of intelligence. dont get too caught up in grades and qualifications as our educational system only tests certain types of intelligent thinking and abilities. i personally think its just a giant memory test, and if you have memory issues you're at serious disadvantage. just do the best you can in your job, try learn each day, mistakes are fine, but most importantly, enjoy your work.

SJ.

I am very intelligent.

There's a stigma in Ireland about intelligence, recognising it in children and adults, and providing the necessary enablers to make the most out of it.

ThumbTaxed

I have more qualifications than really necessary but after progressing in that way I don't rate others who boost about such things.

After all you can get 49 percent of an exam wrong and pass. Means very little to be honest

endacl

I'm smart, me. And I have pants. Imma smartypants.

Stone Deaf 4evr

Hodor

micar

https://youtu.be/tcGQpjCztgA

Surreptitious

No.

_Brian

There are many different ways a person can be intelligent.

If your doing manual work often acedemics seem useless.

Likewise for office work someone whose just a labourer isn't of much use.

I've seen mechanical engineers who couldn't lift a tool and do a job.

dbagman

Wanderer78 wrote:

define intelligents?.

Knowing it's spelt intelligence.......

micar

https://youtu.be/tcGQpjCztgA

threetrees

Yes, I consider myself intelligent but as an average B student, wouldn't be "very"intelligent, there are many others better than me. I have always had excellent exam technique which ranges from study methods to time management in the exam and everything in between. I think I've scored better than my intelligence in some papers at LC and 3rd level. I've a level 9 qualification but can feel a bit thick at some new stuff in work, but I speak up till I get it.

(An intelligent person will always admit when they don't get something.... don't they?!?!?....)

Bredabe

My IQ tests vary wildly, BUT I am smarter than this;
meeting my ex's soon to be, and newly pregnant, wife, she tells me how she is working hard to find a school in their rural area that is montessori, in case her baby is...as she places her hand on my arm, leans in and whispers, "like you". Cause as well all know, sharing sperm at different times causes SLD.
:):)

pilly

Bredabe wrote:

My IQ tests vary wildly, BUT I am smarter than this; meeting my ex's soon to be, and newly pregnant, wife, she tells me how she is working hard to find a school in their rural area that is montessori, in case her baby is...as she places her hand on my arm, leans in and whispers, "like you". Cause as well all know, sharing sperm at different times causes SLD.

What??? I'm confused?

Bredabe

pilly wrote: »

What??? I'm confused?

She seems to have assumed as we had both slept with the same man(at different times of course) that my "problematic" DNA would somehow be transferred to her or her offspring.
Still not sure she is aware that it was her baby and nothing to do with my DNA.
either that or she doesn't know how sperm works.

Permabear

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elbyrneo

Do i consider myself intelligent?

I likes armadillos i do's. Crunchy on the outside, smooth on the inside, armadillos.

ella23

There are very different spectrums of intelligence.

Me, I did my leaving cert in 1998. I got 500 points. Out of those points I got 0 points for maths. Failed pass Maths, would have failed foundation if i did it too. I have never been able to grasp numbers or equations. I also got three A1's in Honours English, Honours Art/Art History and Honours Music and got B's I think in Biology, Irish and French.

So obviously I excel in the arts and was average at everything else. The big annoyance out of this though was at the time (I don't know if it is the case now), because i failed Maths through no fault of my own just literally because i had a problem with numbers, I was not able to get in to a university for my undergrad. I had to go to an IT. There's nothing wrong with the IT's, but i would have liked to have had a choice. But thats a whole new rant on a whole new page.

So yeah, I guess I would consider myself pretty damn intelligent in some fields. But my level of intelligence with numbers is far far far below average.

Pac1Man

I'm intelligence fluid.