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Challenge of the Week CLXVI
Stupid. What is it to be stupid? What a stupid question. Is stupid even logically coherent? Write about stupidity, or about something stupid; but don't write something stupid. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
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Intelligence?

In Psychology there are several different theories about what it means to be intelligent, but no one quite agrees.

Charles Spearman said it was "General Intelligence" that made a person smart. If someone is intelligent in one area, then they will be in another too.

Howard Gardner said there were eight different intelligences that a person could display: Kinesthetic,

Interpersonal,

Linguistic,

Mathematical,

Naturalistic,

Intrapersonal,

Visual,

or Musical.

Robert Sternberg narrowed it down to three:

Practical, Analytical, and Creative.

What makes a person smart?

What makes a person stupid?

Someone who is good at thriving in social interactions has a very important kind of intelligence.

Where would we be without leaders? Friends?

Someone who is good at logical reasoning has another important kind.

Where would we be without mathematicians? Engineers?

Someone who has a developed vocabulary, and can weave magic with language has an important kind of intelligence.

Where would we be without speakers? Writers?

Someone who cares deeply about the earth, its workings and its beauty has an important kind of intelligence.

Where would we be without scientists?

Someone who lives and breathes creativity has another important kind.

Where would we be without musicians? Artists?

Different smart does not mean more smart.

Different smart does not mean less smart.

Who's to say who's smart?

Who's to say who's stupid?

Does different= smart?

Seeing

the

world

a different

way,

makes someone

anything but stupid.

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