2006-10-31 12:53:04 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
even after years of experience it doesnt make one more intelligent...just older and stupid instead of young and stupid
2006-10-31 12:58:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm...well, experience or intelligence. I think that there is a certain maximum threshold to your inborn intelligence. I believe that you are not born at this full capacity, but that as you live life, and gain experience, you slowly reach it. While I think that your intelligence grows as you age, I think that there will eventually come a time when you reach your cap, and become incapable of learning something completely new. You can continue to learn more about what you already know, but it is too late to add knowledge about a brand new topic.
Pyro
2006-10-31 13:24:25 · answer #2 · answered by pyro_briar 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Experience enhances intelligence, but if you don't have intelligence, it would take an awful lot more experience to succeed, and even then success is not guaranteed.
Of course, many intelligent people with lots of experience still make mistakes. Take me for instance.
2006-10-31 13:06:43 · answer #3 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In order to grow and learn from experience, one must have intelligence.
2006-10-31 18:00:01 · answer #4 · answered by Sun is Shining ❂ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that show, "The Apprentice" dealt with this topic.
The verdict?
Team Book Smarts won out in the end. Make your own conclusions with that result.
Although, having said that, I believe the two go hand in hand you just can't get by with one without the other.
It's like having popcorn without the soda at the movies, etc.
I know that sounds like a poor analogy, but the truth of the matter is education is important no matter how you look at it.
The difference being is how much work are you willing to put into it to be successful.
2006-10-31 13:03:39 · answer #5 · answered by ViRg() 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It takes intelligence to interpret experience, and it takes experience to expand intelligence. It's swings and roundabouts - a co-dependent relationship.
2006-10-31 13:01:41 · answer #6 · answered by Sarah A 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, on the contrary.....people tend to beleive that intelligence is static. Pre-determined by ones genes. But this is flawed. Science, in the study of epi-genetics, states that you can change your genetic make-up by the actions you do during your life. Therefore, you can become, in theory, a genius through will power. Obvcourse, this would require ENORMOUS will power, something the average human does not have.
In fact, your intelligence level usually VARIES throughout a year, mostly resembling a sine curve. Taking a student as an example, if you start the school year, your IQ increases until it reaches a "plateu" by which it then starts to fall when you reach summer, because you are using less of your mind during the summer (less required of you).
But really IQ, is not the best indicator of intelligence anyhow. There are many indicators of intelligence. IQ is just a way to study the processing speed and discernment (lucidity) of a mind at one point of time. However, a mind can be very discerning in the deep, philosophical sense (abstract), yet be less so, in the more mundane, skill-intensive tasks required in today's society.
IQ test is very biased toward these 'skill-intensive' tasks, and a skill, just as anything else, can be learned. Pattern-recognition can be developed through examples...
Think about it, how do 'naturally' intelligent people get their pattern recognition? What is at times more disordered in small parts, becomes highly ordered at a grander scale...therefore, if you reach order too fast...you will never be able to reach...the greater order...
, through random enviromental events, and through subtle and random genetic coincidences,geniuses acquired a specific skill set that is favored in society.
Just as they learned it through neural programming by "chance" as a child...so can you through hard work not only acquire the knowledge...but a better way of thinking about the particular subject...for example you want to become more math oriented...you can view geometric iterations that help you THINK a certain way...because of half of everything is THE WAY you see it....if you see something the 'correct' way...the faster you will learn it...so learning also not only the information...but the correct way of doing it, is key...
However, this is not recognized in human culture today, so most of later talent in life does not arise.
Through hard work and perseverence, you can not only increase your knowledge, but increase your intelligence...tips:
take a lot of IQ tests.
Take SAT type tests.
if we are focused on math IQ...do a lot of math and see the connections...if you don't get them at first...have someone ELSE who has already mastered it...explain it...
the same with all other skills...SEE HOW OTHER PEOPLE, WHO HAVE MASTERED IT...PROCESS THE PROBLEM (KEY*)
once you have seen a few connections...your mind will 'lock' and then you will exponetially be able to learn from there...
but what often happens is that people think the wrong way, and try to learn this "wrong way" ...so they learn...but at a very slow rate...because they have to make a lot of mistakes on the way to learn..they learn from their mistakes...but often, that just corrects that particular way of doing something...but not the over-arching way of thinking in the "wrong way"...
therefore, often learning how 'other' people that think the 'right way' who acquired randomly and by chance as a child...can make YOU think the right wya...
you see how they think..and solve the problem..and you start "pattering or copying" how they think...
you then become just as smart...and often smarter because you ahve also known how to do things the wrong way...and therefore have even more insights that the guy who just did it the right way right off from the batt..
however, this takes a lot of pro-active behaviour on your part...its a combination of experience and intelligence...and to those which intelligence did not hit the "sweet spot" at first...a lot of hard work and sweat....
you need to go out however, and not only read books...they don't tell you anything...
you have to get the 'smart' guy, to solve a problem and SEE how he does it...you have to do these type of things over and over..
THis forms a 'hive mind' connect your mind to the minds of others...kind of like an internet of minds...and you will pick the best protocals for processing...and then, you will become master of that which is referred to, and sometimes mistaken with, intelligence, but is reallY just skill.....something that even retards...such as savants...can do---it has nothing to do with intelligence.
its a coherence of brain waves which is reached...your mind can have more inherent 'capacity' but its all 'muddled'---you have to correct and 'cohere' your brainwaves...and enlarge it to a certain scale...and through hardwork...your epigenetics will change your makeup...until...you are just as smart as a genius andeven more (with wisdom) even though you were not born that way....
you will also be more respected not only by others...but, by yourself.
after all, we are just pattern-recognizing machines...improove your protocal, and your rate of pattern-recognition will increase...its as simple as that.
2006-10-31 13:57:15 · answer #7 · answered by jack d 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
What is 'it?'
Life, living?
Even so, so what?
Its about forming a legible question, its about expressing yourself clearly and precisely.
2006-11-01 09:05:46 · answer #8 · answered by sotu 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's about them both, the order that you use them is up to you, but the outcome is different.
2006-10-31 15:50:59 · answer #9 · answered by damari_8 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you dont have to be older to be wiser or more intelligent..its in your genes...
2006-10-31 12:55:53 · answer #10 · answered by Lydia K 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋