Intelligence Vs Mindset

Intelligence

A typical dictionary definition of Intelligence is “the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge.” Intelligence includes the ability to benefit from past experience, act purposefully, solve problems, and adapt to new situations. Most interested topic in recent research, there is no standard definition of exact components of intelligence. Some researchers have suggested that intelligence is a single, general ability, while others believe that intelligence encompasses a range of aptitudes, skills, and talents.

Multifold research on these topic, expressed the conceptualizations which help to suggest the intelligence working in different level and its ability. Intelligence works efficiently to learn, recollect and use knowledge. Intelligence should identify problems and solve that. All haunt for intelligence run behind the mental abilities logical, reasoning, aptitude, problem solving and planning.

Intelligence changes with age. Thus understanding intelligence requires to know the norms or standards in a given population of people at a given age. A person’s mental age, which is the age at which a person is performing intellectually. If we compare the mental age of a person to the person’s chronological age, the result is the IQ, a measure of intelligence that is adjusted for age. 

Specific intelligence,  a measure of specific skills in narrow domains. One distinction is between fluid intelligence, which refers to the capacity to learn new ways of solving problems and performing activities, and crystallized intelligence, which refers to the accumulated knowledge of the world we have acquired throughout our experience

Psychologist Louis L.Thurstone (1887–1955) theory focused on seven different primary mental abilities. The abilities that he described include:

• Verbal comprehension, Reasoning, Perceptual speed, Numerical ability,
• Word fluency, Associative memory, Spatial visualization

Under the umbrella of these researches and advancements, research studies paved the way to categories the intelligence and feeding things to impart the right proportion of knowledge.

Intelligence Vs Mindset

Different entities of science emphasized the intelligence works with the consent of mindset. Though the knowledge gives the green signal to use it. It’s the base for the application of knowledge in relevant situations. Actually mindset knows the ability and capabilities of intelligence. Often it strengthened the mindset which proves that intelligence will never have the negligence to knowledge and vice versa. If the intelligence guides the mindset with the limitless strategies to deal the circumstances then it will never doubt its ability.

Our thoughts are trained with the procedure of conception and belief. This belief system is enabled through the intelligence and knowledge of an individual. As it is said the mindset which tuned the other tracks like interest, curiosity, enthusiasm to learn and acknowledge the other set of intelligence combo.

Intelligent people’s thoughts are very clear and simple. Because the knowledge of the process gives the right beliefs about the system, thereby unknown fear, threat all are demolished. Every instance needs this probing and understanding it in precise mode. Only clumsy ideas about the things make us confess and mess up. Hence the intelligent mindset supports the overall system to function with the powerful decision and clarity planning to get awesome outcomes of our efforts.

NLP too gives this clarity in thought process through it strategies like Meta model and Milton models, one can shape the thought by questioning where and when needed. Any information can be taken in with the probable question to get clarity about the concepts which we are going to take it as the knowledge. So our perception, ideas, belief system are tuned to get the filtered information with the Meta model gate keeper.

Reference: Introduction to Psychology - Charles Stangor