Poll: Being Intelligent vs. Being Gifted
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On my mathematics course there were two kinds of clever people: gifted mathematicians and intelligent people. The latter would have to work twice as hard to keep up with the former. However, the former seemed to have a much more stressful time revising when exam time came around because they didn't have the work ethic of the latter.
So, its swings and roundabouts -- if you really want to shoot for the moon you need to be both gifted and intelligent with a solid work ethic.
So, its swings and roundabouts -- if you really want to shoot for the moon you need to be both gifted and intelligent with a solid work ethic.
I don't need to choose. I was born a very Intelligent person, and in today's society of 'everyone else that you meet is generally a retard', I'm gifted to not be included in the populational statistic.
Seriously, Nearly everyone I meet is a total and complete idiot. I've only met three people in my life that I can safty declare 'Intelligent".
Maybe It's because my I.Q. is 210...
Seriously, Nearly everyone I meet is a total and complete idiot. I've only met three people in my life that I can safty declare 'Intelligent".
Maybe It's because my I.Q. is 210...
Very good discription of classifing smart people like me. I guess I am a gifted Mathematician, for I have relative ease with work, but I am extremely lazy and never study.Kevvers said:
Then you'll know that I'm about to launch into the common lecture about IQ not being an accurate measure of intelligence and the variations between different tests on offer being substantial and age dependent...but I would say that I'm only a 130...DolpinWacker64 said:
True, very true. But I believe my score of 210 because I took nearly two dozen different tests and averaged the scores together. It was extremely boring because I felt several of the questions were way too easy, but I was interested after my first score came out and legally declared me a genius. I never believe first results, so thats why I took so many.carnkhan4 said:
Lie, or you are 5 with the intelligence of 10 year old. Or you are one of the most intelligent people on Earth.DolpinWacker64 said:
And I say that with my 142 IQ. Okay, now it's only 134, as it dropped a bit over the last 4 years or so, but... I don't know if I'm intelligent or just gifted.
I do know I have a great visual memory and I grasp every concept, language and skill extremely fast. I've been studying karate less than my friends at school, yet I was better when it came to using techniques. But since I'm lazy, I'm a jack of all trades. I'm pretty good at school... But even though I prefer some of the subjects compared to others, I do not exceed in any of them. Maybe except for English and Computer Study, but that's because I have more to do with those two than anyone else in my class.
I'd rather be good at only two or three things and weak at the others... Because while I have many skills, I have never perfected most of them.
I think this says it all you can not become intelligent. If you don't have the spark you just can't. You can enrich your knowledge to your limit but that limit won't go up. You Gift is just natural talent and talent can be acquired through work if one wishes so.Wasder said:
Dumb question. How many gifted people got anywhere without hard work? Even Einstein said his genius was "99% hard work and 1% inspiration". Who am I to argue with Einstein?
"Gifted" people only exists in novels and movies.
"Gifted" people only exists in novels and movies.
A person that is gifted usually is only gifted in one specific area. Example is Rain Man. A person that is intelligent has the option to be "gifted" in any area they choose. Even if that area is BS. The only man I can think of that was both Gifted and Intelligent was Leonardo DiVinci. Who wouldn't want to be that guy?
No, it's the truth, although It would be very idiotic of me to try to prove it to every none believer. I'm actually 17 years old(18 this April), and while I will not claim that I'm the one of the smartest people in the world(because that's just being an asshole) I will say That if other people declared me as such, then I could believe them, just by remembering that most of my conversations with friends end up with me disappointed and them not understanding what the hell we were talking about.Abedeus said:
