Musings of a Poor College Student

I was talking to some of my buddies about this subject. I was talking about how alot of the guys who are generally called nice guys are vultures, but a fair amount of them are just socially inept. I too was like that once upon a time. As any reader of this blog well knows, I had problems in elementary school. I had friends before I transferred, but when I got to the new school, it wasn't fun. I was treated like garbage the entire time I was there. Which felt like an eternity to a kid being marginalized. Especially with girls, I developed a cynical attribute about me. I became quite disenchanted by girls. I thought they were all essentially selfish fake people that cared of nothing other than social status. Granted, that's essentially what I thought of all people. That said, it caused me to develop into what you could call a nice guy. I had all of the ideas they do. Girls only date the guy with the status, and it doesn't matter how much of an asshole he is. Stuff like that. ...

This is sort of an extension of my last post, where I talk about intelligence and logic. Here I will talk about in more specifics what I think true intelligence is. I said intelligence is more about your potential to be smart about various subjects. You are born with this set in stone. You can't improve your potential. That said, I believe intelligence is more than just your potential, it's your aptitude to fulfill it. Just because you have the potential to be a scientist doesn't mean you have the mental aptitude required to be one. You can improve your aptitude to meet your potential as a person. There are various things at work here. Passion, talent, knowledge, motivation, etc. The more aptitude you have, the more intelligent you are. Thus if intelligence is aptitude and potential, we can say that your overall intelligence is: your aptitude/your potential. The bigger the resulting number, the more intelligent you are as a person. Of course, it's not possible for you...

Logic is a rather interesting thing. I'd say most people are not logical beings. Most people are driven by emotion and bias. I think it's possible to be incredibly intelligent, yet not very logical. And vice versa. Though it seems like an oxymoron to say the illogical genuis, I'd say it's a very possible thing. That's because, you can be smart in any number of things. You can be a smart mechanic, or a smart trucker. Nobody is smart about everything. Intelligence is different in that it's more about your potential to be smart about various things. Not very intelligent people may cap out at being smart about trucking. Extremely intelligent people are potentially limitless in what they can do, but more notably, not in what they will do. See, as I said, it's impossible that you can be truly smart about everything. That is true even for the most intelligent. They must specialize. Logic is one of those specialties. It's true that most intelligent people are lo...