Essay On Extended Definition Of Intelligence

Extended Definition of Intelligence

We all grow up and go to school to get something special: intelligence. Our parents told us that we needed intelligence, which will bring us far in life. When we were young, we used to insult people, saying: “You are not intelligent”. But what does intelligent really mean after all? What is it to get “intelligent?” Would I get a better job if I had that? Would I be more interesting? Not necessarily.

Basically, intelligence is a bunch of mental functions giving by rational and conceptual thinking. As I was questioning myself to get a better definition of that word, I found that there were so many different kind of intelligence that we can’t really define what intelligence is. There is sportive intelligence, social …show more content…
That kind of intelligence is the most known since we are young. Our parents send us to school to develop that. Contrariwise to the social intelligence, academic intelligence is something that you learn, not that you have or not. That type of intelligence is also separable in many categories: Math, French language, Chemistry, Physics, Economics, etc. For example, you can get academic intelligence by reading some books, studying a lot, working hard on your homework and obviously going to school. The more you study and practice, the more you get academically intelligent. But again, wait: Even though academic intelligence is something learnable, not everybody is able to learn that kind of intelligence. It really depends on who you are. What type of skills you have at first. That is a delicate type of intelligence because as you can’t learn everything that is learnable, you can’t always learn academic intelligence. Some people might get it overtime; some people might never get it at all. But everyone that has that kind of intelligence work hard to get it. That’s why academic intelligence is a learnable