Are you intelligent??

Are you? I just might be.

No, but I am wise. The Bible says "fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom". I do fear God, therefore I am wise. In the same way, I believe that all christians are wise.

Very much like Gohan, the chosen one held back by self-doubt. just need big hair and my dad to be dead again.

Who's to say?

Truly.

I like to think so, but I'm also convinced that it doesn't matter as much as we'd like to think.

No

intelligent enough to see my stupidity ( sometimes )

Not as smart as I'd like to be.

I prefer to think of myself as "wise", however. I'm usually the one asking questions, not answering them.

If I am, it's wasted on me as I'm just a nihilist without ambition.

I don't think so but then again, I am around a lot smart people everyday.

Nah, I wouldn't say so. I don't know very much about much. I'm bad at math.

I know I'm smarter than some people, but I assume those to be morons rather than me being smart.

I'm experienced. I have a particular set of skills...

I can hold my own.

I'm alright. 1435 SAT score, got a bachelor's degree, have a good career in something that I didn't need my degree for

college is a scam

Yeah, sort of the same situation lol.

I tell myself that we take a path in life and while it might not end up where you expect, it does lead you to where you are at, and if you're happy then you shouldn't regret it.

Should I have gone to college? Did I need to go to college? No, of course not.

But at the same time, I would have ended up in a completely different place (perhaps better, perhaps worse) if I had not.

No regrets. But I do exercise my right to look back and think "what if?" lol.

@mrbojangles25: all that really should matter is is you’re daily standard of living ok??

Do you have 1 house and 1 car (at least) and can maintain your daily living?? Do you have an income, and try to save some money in a savings account??

I’m sure I’m missing much much more, but it’s good to keep those things in mind.

Not really smart but I still have interest in following things like history, various styles of math, psychology and biology ...even had interest in medical text books as a kid in spite of what's usually said about my state. I can finish some really big novels half way in about 2 hours or less for cases of the like such as "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"

I would add to that: at what point does more become not worth it?

Does the nicer car come with debt?

Does having a family mean you have to work so much you don't see them grow up?

Sometimes "good enough" is exactly that: good enough.

I was one of those kids that was told I was very intelligent. It made me complacent and lazy.

Only as a grown up, I learned about the value and happiness of hard work.

That's literally me. Being told you're intelligent all the time can make one complacent and lazy as a kid. I didn't realize the value of good ol' work ethics until I was an adult.

Most of the time, hard work trumps raw talent... But nepotism trumps all.

@Jag85: yes, I never tell my kids they are smart. It doesn't matter how well they do at school. I always tell them "I am proud of your hard work"

Wise woman would say.

I am about normal intelligence. Above average in some respects below average in others. Overall Normal though

Yes.

I had an IQ test and the lady said "you are very intelligent and I am very impressed" (we also had sex she was hot)

Intelligent enough to know I am not intelligent.

I know that I know nothing.

Intelligence is a tricky topic since there are several different kinds. Some people have book smarts and no street smarts, and others are quite the opposite. I barely graduated high school because I simply didn't care, but I always scored well in placement tests, scored in the top 2 percent on the ASVAB (which had the Navy trying to recruit me as a biochemical nuclear engineer and the Air Force as a pilot, however I joined the Marine Corps as an 0311 Infantry rifleman.. brilliant huh? lol) and never had a B in any college course. I also scored high enough on the official Mensa society test to be accepted into their ranks for a yearly fee of $200 which I turned down and still laugh at the irony to this day.

That said, some of the most intelligent people I've ever met don't have a degree and some of the most ignorant people I've ever met do. Degrees are simply a piece of paper to prove your reliance to see things through and do not reflect ones intelligence in the least, outside of a very small and select few fields.

The funny thing is that for whatever reason humans have built the infrastructure around the idea of genius level intellect to revolve around pattern recognition above all else.. which is something I excel in. Seriously like 90 percent of the questions are pattern solving. I guess I feel like intelligence is multifaceted and shouldn't be so hyperfocused on any single field, but that would have me questioning who gets to decide, and then we're back to ground zero since I took the test out of curiosity and not to try and claim a higher understanding.. and we are back to the fact that all I know is that I know nothing. Obviously those who make the rules base intelligence off problem solving and the ability to readily see things others can't.

Life is beautiful and mysterious and I'm ok with that. I take those tests out of curiosity more than anything else and these days I actually find them quite amusing and almost like a puzzle solving game... as if any singular test could determine things such as emotional intelligence, which in my opinion is far more important to the future of our species.

At the end of the day all we can do is to try and do right by others and regardless of our intelligence levels understand that when everything is said and done none of it will matter, so instead we should tackle the meaning of life, which I believe is helping others get through theirs in a collaborative effort for better reasoning and understanding as a society of parasites drifting in the endless vacuum of space hoping to reach enlightenment.. lol

I often times poke the hornets nest just to see the reaction I will get to better my understanding of the human condition, much as I do here revolving around politics (not trolling just genuinely curious to see what makes others tick while also understanding you're never going to shine light in an echo chamber so it's not as sublime as it is masochistic.. lol), although we all have differing opinions it doesn't necessarily reflect our level of understanding, yet shines light on the journey our lives have taken us. Most of the time we truly are a product of our environment and enslaved to a hypercritical society of peers that want to separate us into social classes rather than work together for the benefit of our species as a whole.

@WitIsWisdom: Very intelligent post here!

Testify!

I’m smart. Not intelligent. 😅