Defining Intelligence

It is generally said that intelligent people have a high capacity to solve problems they have to deal with either in everyday life or in their domain of activity. Creativity is directly proportional to IQ and it is associated with more or less significant innovations in a certain area.

An intelligent human being has a deep insight of the essence of things and phenomena. He deeply understands the relation between the cause and the effect – that allows him to precisely establish the nature of problems as well as the best way to solve them.

In its essence intelligence refers to the efficiency of human beings to use their mental abilities. If a person who does not succeed in life, it does not necessarily mean that one is not intelligent but that he/she does not accurately use his/her intellectual capacities.

Getting out well and safe from difficult situations allows not only the personal growth but also self awareness of one’s own mental aptitudes. The individual who is conscious of his qualities will always know how to use them in a better way.

Intelligence is manifested differently in different people. Intelligent businessmen tend to highly succeed in financial and economical areas. An intelligent teacher has a very good capacity to teach. An intelligent athlete will play better his chances on the sports ground.

Every efficient person develops certain mental qualities specific to the field he activates in.

Psychologists have highly developed communication abilities so that they are able to control their emotions carefully. A good doctor is endowed with a very good practical intelligence. A good strategist has the ability to see things on the whole without neglecting the details.

Each certain individual develops some mental abilities and neglect to develop others. It happens that a rationalistic intelligent person can be less financially achieved due to a low leveled practical sense and underdeveloped economical intelligence. A very efficient businessman might lack the capacity to understand art because he hasn’t developed artistic intelligence. Many intelligent artists behave like children because they need to develop their emotional intelligence.

The behavior differences among people are due to unequal development of the mental capacities linked to intelligence. For that reason each mental capacity corresponds to a certain type of intelligence. Because there are many sorts of mental capacities there are also many and different types of intelligence: rational, intuitive, communicational, emotional, organic, economical, practical, creative, artistic and spiritual.