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2006-11-29 14:00:04 · 7 answers · asked by debatetopic 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I see you have the usual, intellectually feeble, social science BS. You have intelligence, to a degree, or you don't. You can get motivated. All the motivation in the world is not going to get someone with an IQ of 60 the Nobel Prize, excepting the peace category. You can motivate someone with intelligence to do just that, if you have the right motivator or the person motivates themselves. Of course, all the intelligence in the world will not help someone who is not motivated. It is just that motivation is the more variable of the two concepts. Though to say IQ is a concept is too subjective, while saying that about motivation is almost too objective.
PS sin 7 looks to have it correct, also. Good analogy, that.
2006-11-29 14:24:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we were cars, intelligence would be the top speed and motivation would be stepping on the gas. All the stepping on the gas in the world would not get you very far in a broken car. At the same time, someone in a very fast car can travel at decent speeds with hardly stepping on the gas. From this perspective an intelligent person has an obvious advantage, whether he uses it or not is a different question.
2006-11-29 14:21:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think your question pretty much covers what you want to know.
You are motivated to ask a question, but due to lack of intelligence, you enforce a limit on the answers to avoid opinions. And, opinions are a direct result of intelligence coupled with logical or emotional thought processes.
Hence, you will receive lots of answers from motivated people, but very few from intelligent people, and you will still be in square one.
QED
2006-11-29 14:13:44 · answer #3 · answered by Extemporaneous 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Albert Einstein once commented on an individual saying that this person was truly briliant, but unfortunately lacked the motivation necessary to make anything of it. I can't remember the quote exactly or who it was about. Basically, if you have one without the other, it's kind of useless either way.
2006-11-29 14:14:48 · answer #4 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. Intelligence w/ out motivation goes nowhere.
2006-11-29 14:07:36 · answer #5 · answered by Wendsday's child 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You can be extremely motivated but your brain can't process ideas. However it can be eventually overcome with a lot of motivation.
2006-11-29 14:07:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
It doesn't.
2006-11-29 14:02:20 · answer #7 · answered by art_tchr_phx 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋