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Stupidity is doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome. Difficulty with ordinary people is they try to solve the problem, but intelligent strive to prevent it.
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BLOSSOMING TALE: A student's fate is like that of a raindrop. If it falls on a hot iron, it evaportes and if it drops on a lotus, it glistens. Photo. K.R. Deepak.
ORDINARY PEOPLE try to solve problems but intelligent try to prevent them. Intelligence is the ability to acquire, retrieve and use knowledge in a meaningful way to understand concrete and abstract ideas and to comprehend the unseen relationships among the objects and the ideas.
There is a great poem in Sanskrit, which says that the fate of a raindrop is decided by the place where it falls. If it plummets on a hot iron, it evaporates within a split second. If it drops on a lotus leaf, it glitters for few hours. If it plunges into a pearl sack, it becomes a permanent sparkling gem.
This poem highly resembles a students' life. Fate may decide the future of a raindrop, but a student with foresight can certainly contribute to his fate.
The brave factor
A brave student knows that pleasant and sincere investment of 15 years in education yields him 50 years of happiness later. Immediately after education, he is able to start his career with a high profile status. He enjoys the luxuries, financial comforts and tastes the sparkling success very early in his profession.
Some other students `appear' to be brave. By copying or by influence they might have got a decent job. They glitter for a while, but they have to race with more bright and brilliant colleagues in their profession. The management soon knows their inherent worth and they become unpopular.
Some students might have been dazzling heroes and cause of envy to others in their college days, by spending lavishly and maintaining a group.
But when they come out of the college with a flaccid ranking, they have to settle for a lifeless small job, and their enthusiasm in life evaporates fast.
Thus, intelligence has three fundamental concepts: 1. Recognition of the correct goal and travelling towards it. 2. Detection of the mistake if any in the said process. 3. Completion of the job successfully within minimum time.
Types of intelligence:
* `Fluid intelligence' is the capacity to understand a new concept quickly, comprehension in knowing innovative things and enthusiasm towards wisdom. It is more compulsorily required at the time of schooling and learning, and at the early stages of joining a new profession.
* `Crystallised intelligence' is application of acquired wisdom, skill and knowledge in day-to-day life and profession. At this stage it is called `Academic intelligence.' This is again can be divided into three parts: Intra-personal, Inter-personal and Emotional.
`Intra' means within. Take an example of a scientist. To invent something new, he has to work within himself alone, using his basic fluid brainpower, acquired knowledge and common sense. The aptitude is called `intra-personal intelligence,' which is required for a student when he is working for his exams.
Inter-personal intelligence deals with communication skills, diplomacy, logic and marketing one's own talent.
Emotional intelligence is the wisdom and composure with which one works on his job under difficult, unexpected and demanding situations.
Marks are not the criteria for assessing one's intelligence in the early stages. A student who gets good marks may not be intelligent but industrious only. But this fact proves to be correct only in the initial period of schooling. At a later stage, intelligence plays vital role vis-à-vis memory and industry. Though scientifically not accurate, we can place the equation like this.
A student with 60-40 intelligence and industry (memory) ratio will be good at engineering, accounts, management costing etc. A child with 60-40 percent industry and intelligence will be bright in medicine, literature, history and zoology, etc. A student (more so the parents) should decide where he fits in well.
Stupidity is antonym to intellect. Stupidity is doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome. Same way, being clever is different from skill. Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara falls. Intelligence is not trying.
By Yandamoori Veerendranath
yandamoori@hotmail.com
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