Intelligence and LO LO9357

Keith Cowan (72212.51@CompuServe.COM)
22 Aug 96 16:18:06 EDT

Replying to LO9260 --

Michael McMaster <Michael@kbddean.demon.co.uk> provides some additional
insights and again prompted me to contribute:

I belong to Mensa which is an organization of people that happen to do
well on a particular kind of test. In my experience, the members of this
particular organization do not fare any better or worse than other members
of comparable society. There are a whole spectrum of people from laborers
to politicians, managers to entrepreneurs to unemployed.

The dilemma I have with any form of labelling is that it limits our
thinking. We are constantly striving to derive meaning from life or to
make life seem simpler than it really is. Advocats can sometimes make us
think even when the advocates themselves has chosen not to (because they
have the answer).

People tend to rely on their strengths. Inherent strengths may tend to
limit opportunity. A good basketball player may not get the motivation to
consider law or medicine because the basketball "path" is too easy or too
natural for them. I know of college classmates who got their PhDs because
they could, not because they were driven by any ambition or goal.

We need to remain as open as we can. Yogi Berra gets quoted as often as
Albert Einstein. Both make us think and sometimes make us smile. If you
ever encounter someone from whom you cannot learn anything, you should
question how hard you are trying. In my early experience as a Dale
Carnegie instructor, I learned from people who could barely function in
our society... that's all for today ...Keith

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Keith Cowan <72212.51@CompuServe.COM>

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