How would you define your own intelligence?

Yes maybe I should have. Thankfully you have added it now so let's see if anyone else claims to be the same! I am certainly not a book smart person and have always disliked academia; and I am somewhat street wise but not as much as I would like to be yet! Thanks for responding.

I'm smart, but only in relation to subjects that I have an interest in.

I absorb information better if I have a base interest also!

As they say "Ignorance is bliss!" so if it is a known quote then it must have SOME merit! lol. Thanks for responding.

Yep I am blissfully ignorant about a lot of 'guy' things, mostly mechanical stuff!

Ah! The "damsel in distress" play! lol. I know this one and some women are MASTERS at it! Maybe you are smarter than you think? lol.

I don't agree with you. Ignorance can never be blissful. Wisdom is bliss. Don't misinterpret wisdom to knowledge

regards

Hey, how about the hopeless guy who can't boil water ploy? My husband gets me back with that stuff all the time.

Ok. dawnald - The distress stuff works both ways you know. Us men aren't as dumb as we look either!

ajithkumarcc - Thanks for your inputs. Seeing as ignorance in this context can also mean that someone is actually oblivious to many things around them then I feel that it can most certainly be bliss! You can't be affected negatively by things you don't even recognize or acknowledge! And as for wisdom and knowledge; yes they are most definitely two very different things. Knowledge can be instantly gained yet wisdom comes only through the combination of time, knowledge AND experience.

You can't know everything. Everybody is ignorant about something!

True that! If we new everything there was to know then there would be nothing left to learn either. Where's the fun in that? Good night and I look forward to further discussions!

I agree that ignorance is not an excuse. And I too hope that no-one uses this discussion to belittle others. I doubt they will though skywolfcel as they have been asked to assess themselves and not others. Thanks for responding.

I guess this is actually one of the downsides of becoming street smart. It's an intelligence that you gain from real experiences that are not always positive. Most of the knowledge I have gained throughout my life has been from books also. I love to read but cannot handle academic learning well and JUST scraped through high school. I just get too bored with it and like to learn on my own terms. Thanks for responding and keep on reading!

A combination of the three is not a bad way to be! (Did that rhyme?? lol) I too have certain topics that I do feel very confident and intelligent with and am also prepared to quickly learn about new things when needed. It all comes down to my personal interest in the subject matter. If I am intrigued by it I absorb information well. If not, then it goes in one ear and out the other! It sounds like you and you husband have the ideal intelligence combination! Thanks for responding.

"You are a poet and didn't know it" James! My honey and I are quite the team! It all works out rather well, I'm the artist and he's the money man. I read tarot cards and Cosmo, and he reads Wall Street and Forbes magazine. hahahahaha....I'm a intuitive, with street smarts, and he's straight up logic, with a hint of intuitive in there.

Sounds perfect to me, you are very lucky! Opposites most definitely do attract then it seems!

Actually that's an excellent point. I am sure that some people I know may think that I am one of the smartest people they have met; yet others would wonder if I even have any brain cells left! lol. You keep your opinion of yourself TO yourself then! But for the record I don't think that any of us here that know you on mylot would doubt your intelligence for one second! Thanks for responding.

What you are saying is very true. Having book smarts certainly won't provide you with the experience to survive in the big bad world but on the other hand, it DOES feed your mind and ultimately grow your overall knowledge. I am not a book smarts person but I wish sometimes I was! Anyone that is able to have the best of both worlds has an interesting life ahead of them you would think! Thanks for responding.

Not to heap any more pressure on you SaintAnne, hehehe, but you are very funny! My daughter always likes to get straight A's, but she gets lost every time she goes anywhere!

If I had a dollar for everytime I got lost somewhere I don't think I would need to work! Us men would rather cut off a limb in place of asking dorections or reading a map! lol.

I never get lost... I always know exactly where I am. This body, planet earth.

lol. Fair enough. But doesn't help when you are 30 minutes late for a meeting and you can't find the offices you need to go to zigzagbuddha!

I hate going to meetings. I usually didn't show up at all, but if I did I always timed it so that I was arriving just as the meeting was ending. But that is probably why you have a career and I don't.

About time you showed up again woman! I look forward to the day when I too can live my life meeting free! I am working on it!

Hands on learning is my ideal scenario as well. We all respond differently when it comes to absorbing information and I have a much greater chance of understanding something if it is hands on and on my own terms rather than through some structured approach. Street smarts come from cold harsh realities a lot of the time, so those of us that DO have street smarts certainly didn't get them easily or without sacrifice. Intellectual types? I don't mind all sorts of people once in a while. I have experienced what we could loosely call "Intellectuals" on many occasions and I have to admit that it's an amusing adventure every time I am around people like this. Especially IT Academics! I deal with these kinds of people a lot and it can be very funny sometimes.

Well said James!

Boy, I am quite sure that a bunch of IT Academics would leave me feeling like an ignoramus from a different planet! But I have noticed that those types usually have a pretty hilarious sense of humor!

I remember in another of your discussions you said that you hadn't had the opportunity to see much Saturday Night Live stuff. I wonder if you ever saw any of the Nick Burns (Your Company Computer Guy) skits? I am including a link to one of them. They're pretty friggin funny. This is what somebody said about this video:

"This one goes out to all the IT guys out there, although most of you probably aren't this bad. But just remember the next time you're engaging in a lunch conversation about the negative aspects of a positronal ion difibrillating Cisco gateway; you might be alienating some people."

Hehehhe, and here's the link:

http://doubleh7.multiply.com/video/item/14

Thanks for the link! I will watch this in the morning and will let you know how close this dude may be to some of the people I have to deal with most days! lol.

I watched the clip! Believe it or not but I have DEFINITELY had to deal with people like this in the past and still do from time to time. Yes "Nick Burns" is the combination of all the extra annoying and funny traits out there but I have experienced each of these traits in one person or another throughout my career! Many of them are honestly in a world of their own! You do have to admire their passion though. It was great that you shared this. Very, very funny!

I'm very glad it was such a hit!

My daughter is very much like Nick Burns. She is not an 'IT Academic' but she lived with a guy who was... and he would often come to her for her take on a problem!

Anyway, if I was having some sort of a problem with my computer she would rattle off the most complex sounding bunch of directions and I'd be like "what?" And with a big sigh a roll of her eyes she would come over and slap me in the shoulder with the back of her hand and say "Moooove!" I kid you not!!! So when my son and I discovered those videos we could hardly wait to show them to my her! Hahahaha... yeah... they were a hit with all of us too!

I have spent the last two years working on business development for "artificial intelligence enhanced frameworks for adaptive personalization over digital presentation mediums using neural networks and hybrid methodologies" (Phew) so you can imagine the type of people I am around! The terms I hear every day are practically along the same lines as Swahili I reckon! I am sure your daughter and her man recognized many of the traits also!

A combination of both would be great! And yes, a good heart is of great importance also. We could be the smartest person on the planet but without compassion then what good would it be? Thanks for responding.

Well hopefully not from too many bad life experiences then! Thanks for responding.