On Mar 26, 2013

Thought Tweet #702 Who decides Intelligence? We all decide Intelligence!

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

We are sentient creatures. We are thinking creatures. We are curious and we like to measure and compare. We possess special neurons that help us understand other human beings. As we experience other people, we sense and gauge the signals of their intelligence [or lack of it], whether it is IQ-type or EQ-type or some other type of intelligence.

Obviously, we are subjective as we observe and measure other people. We do not employ ‘exact science’. We tend to stereotype. We tend to downplay situations. We tend to have attribution bias, etc.

Who decides intelligence?

We all do and we do it every day.

Here are a few articles that you might find interesting…

Don't Give Ideas the Brake, Give Ideas a Break

by Rick Baker
On Mar 26, 2013

Here is a list of things that throttle ideas, nipping ideas in the bud or nipping them soon after...

1. Lack of Self-confidence

2. Lack of Self-knowledge around Talents & Strengths

3. Lack of Education, specifically in the areas of Creativity: 'Lateral Thinking', Ideation, Intellection, Invention, & Innovation

4. Narrow & Different Perspectives

5. Lack of Process for Idea-generation [Curiosity, Creativity, Invention, & Innovation]

6. Lack of Practise [at what we call ‘IDEA-storming’]

7. Bad Habits: blaming others rather than accepting responsibility

8. The mistaken belief that ‘Process kills Creativity’

9. Confusion around Routine versus not-Routine work

If you see your people or your business stagnating in old ideas...don't worry about it or complain about it - check for these 9 things and take action to remove them.

Some related articles...

About Courage & Confidence https://rickbaker.ca/search.aspx?q=self-confidence

About Talents, & Strengths https://rickbaker.ca/post/2013/02/19/Talents-Strengths-another-perspective.aspx

About Ideation & Intellection https://rickbaker.ca/post/2012/12/18/So-you-think-you-have-INSIGHT.aspx

About Narrow & Different Perspectives https://rickbaker.ca/post/2013/02/05/NewBinocularsHelpYouSeeEyetoEye.aspx

About Process for Idea-Generation https://rickbaker.ca/post/2011/11/23/In-the-Clutch-of-Ideas.aspx

About Practise https://rickbaker.ca/post/2012/11/16/A-Formula-for-Personal-Strengths.aspx

About Bad Habits https://rickbaker.ca/post/2010/01/19/CHANGING-FOR-THE-BETTER-Good-Habits-Bad-Habits-New-Things.aspx

About the Belief ‘Process kills Creativity’ https://rickbaker.ca/post/2012/02/15/PROCESS-does-that-word-rub-you-the-wrong-way.aspx

About ‘not-Routine Work’ https://rickbaker.ca/post/2013/02/02/Separating-Routine-not-Routine-Work-Tasks.aspx

The bottom line...