Self Improvement
First Sign of a Highly Intelligent Person
Sizing up people’s mental acuity is pretentious, condescending, belittling, and self-serving, even though most of us do it.
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3 min readMar 11, 2021
If you have to find a reason to determine a person’s intelligence level, something is already askew. That’s right. Whether you’re evaluating a workmate, a potential employee, or a friend, a little worm in your thinking showed you need to know the level of the wet noodle’s computation powers you’re interfacing with.
Why is that?
Is it because you’re insecure and threatened by them? Or are they acting ridiculously, indicating lunacy? Who can say? Why say at all?
The Crux
- You don’t need to size up anyone’s mental acuity.
- If you think you need to evaluate their IQ, EQ, SQ (Social Quotient), AQ (Adversity Quotient), you don’t know the meaning of Need.
- The first sign of a highly intelligent person is they don’t need to read an article to tell them how to rate another person's intelligence.
- If you still need to rate every human being, you are obsessed with fitting everyone and possibly everything into neat little categories that will never be…