Intelligence isn\u2019t equal to development; intelligence has to be developed.\u00a0 Just because you\u2019re smart doesn\u2019t automatically make you a perfect or even brilliant human being.\u00a0 Intelligence is a potential, a capacity, and that capacity need to be developed in order to do you or anyone else any good.\u00a0 You might have a high IQ, but if you never learned to read or write you\u2019d never be able to pen that novel.\u00a0 And if no one ever taught you math, you\u2019d never be able to solve those equations.\u00a0 Education of one kind or another is how we commonly develop the potential of intelligence; education is a tool for developing us along the way to reaching our highest potential.<\/p>\n
There are multiple types of intelligence, of course; however, IQ, the basic cognitive firepower for many developmental activities, is likely necessary (but not sufficient) for the development of many of the other intelligences.\u00a0 Education and training can help develop all the types.<\/p>\n
Additionally, attention (the capacity to maintain selective, sustained concentration)\u00a0 and how we use it has a lot to do with hoe we develop across the various intelligences.\u00a0 Improving my attention has helped me enhance my learning and growth in many areas of my life, regardless of how developed they were or weren\u2019t.\u00a0 I think of meditation, working on my attention, as a supercharger for my intelligence and education.\u00a0 There are plenty of studies out there describing the genius of meditation, but for me, it\u2019s the fine-tuning of how deeply I can learn and develop that makes a major impact on my life.<\/p>\n
Want to be a better date, a better lover, a better friend?\u00a0 Meditate.\u00a0 It\u2019ll focus you, and you\u2019ll thereby be able to better work on your verbal, logical, musical, visual, kinesthetic, inter- and interpersonal, naturalistic and existential intelligences.\u00a0 Who doesn\u2019t like an evolved man?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Intelligence isn\u2019t equal to development; intelligence has to be developed.\u00a0 Just because you\u2019re smart doesn\u2019t automatically make you a perfect or even brilliant human being.\u00a0 Intelligence is a potential, a capacity, and that capacity need to be developed in order to do you or anyone else any good.\u00a0 You might have a high IQ, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n