my theories and ideologies

my theories on what 'intelligence' actually is

now, lots of people seem to believe intelligence to be many things - the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. it obviously can be, but i truly think one thing stands out more than anything else for a specific definition of intelligence: the ability and capability of being able to accept and discover the different ideas everyone has and admire the art of the mind and awareness of the crumbling standards of education and society. that might be a bit of a reach, but i consider an intelligent person to be able to understand the corrupt way our society works and still manage to find acceptance in the words that come up in the mind of others (of course unless the ideology is deragotory towards someone for an aspect of their identification they cannot help).

i truly think being able to develop a conscience of the way the world works instead of simply just living, is incredible. the world is structured so strictly and so basically yet the things within the world are so complex. the birth, to the nursery/preschool, to the expected schools you go to, then getting good grades, jobs, maybe starting a family, i mean everything has been thought out. i think someone of intelligence is able to not only identify that, because that's incredibly easy, but being able to form an opinion on the human structure of the world. being 'educated' is acknowledging the fact education is infiltrated with biased subjects, opinions and only teaches people what the generation before believes should be carried with us to progress (a mass amount of that being utter bullshit we don't need to have knowledge of). i think being educated/ intelligent isn't knowing everything you are taught in school/work, isn't anything to do with grades and letters you may get on an essay you wrote, it's being able to perceive the world as it is and not for what you are told it is to be or contain.

erik erickson came up with a theory to explain intelligence. erikson proposed that we are motivated by the need to achieve competence in certain areas of our lives. according to psychosocial theory, we experience eight stages of development over our lifespan, from infancy through late adulthood. at each stage there is a crisis or task that we need to resolve. successful completion of each developmental task results in a sense of competence and a healthy personality. failure to master these tasks leads to feelings of inadequacy. [description of theory from the website courses.lumenlearning.com] . i believe this theory somewhat resonates with mine, specifically the phrase 'we are motivated by the need to achieve competence in certain areas of our lives'. i may have interpreted this factually wrong, but this is my perception of that phrase. i think that this explains that the ability to do something 'successfully' or 'efficiently' must be achieved in certain areas of our lives in order to have a good well-being. i somewhat agree with this and it resonates with my argument of being able to be in acceptance of things around you, and being able to successfully form an opinion on particular aspects of our lives and maybe yes learning to accept the way things are but then also to rise up against that or enforcing it even more if you believe it's good.

accepting the way things are is simply boring because just because something is a particular way it doesn't mean it's always good, which is why we need to find success and efficiency for motivation in order to change aspects in particular areas of our lives for the better [STILL IN PROGRESS]