Intelligence - a word that sounds alien and within reach at different times. I have had long discussions with my friends as to what exactly is intelligence and how important is it in life. For the purpose of making this blog short lets confine intelligence to academic sense. So how important is intelligence to be successful in academics?
One of my friend always says this: "intelligence is over-rated, hard work can more than compensate". He supports his argument with many of those PhD students being less intelligent than others but still compensating with their hard work. The other point in his support is it is not necessary that the most intelligent guy always succeed in academics.
On the contrary, every person must have some basic intelligence to succeed in academics. Lets assume that hard work + intelligence = success. intelligence cannot be 0% and hard work 100%. There has to be a decent contribution from both components to succeed. How else can one explain a student who fails in an exam even after hours and hours of effort. Some may argue that this is due to the lack of interest - but I believe hard work is generated only if you have interest.
So where does this leave us - two contradicting strong points. After much thought, and discussions with so called wise men , I came to the following conclusion:-
Intelligence is slightly over rated. Every person has a little of basic intelligence (which I believe every human being is gifted with). The lack of high level of intelligence can be compensated. Believe me this compensating factor is not just hard work. It is "hard work + confidence + interest". Once you develop these three in the field of work, a person can definitely compensate for lack of intelligence (if at all).
I do expect others to have varying opinions and comments on this; still I believe I have a strong point in the above conclusion.
Always,
sk
P.S: Any direct/indirect reference to ay person living/dead is purely unintentional. If I sounded a little over the board, I offer my apologies to anyone feeling hurt.
One of my friend always says this: "intelligence is over-rated, hard work can more than compensate". He supports his argument with many of those PhD students being less intelligent than others but still compensating with their hard work. The other point in his support is it is not necessary that the most intelligent guy always succeed in academics.
On the contrary, every person must have some basic intelligence to succeed in academics. Lets assume that hard work + intelligence = success. intelligence cannot be 0% and hard work 100%. There has to be a decent contribution from both components to succeed. How else can one explain a student who fails in an exam even after hours and hours of effort. Some may argue that this is due to the lack of interest - but I believe hard work is generated only if you have interest.
So where does this leave us - two contradicting strong points. After much thought, and discussions with so called wise men , I came to the following conclusion:-
Intelligence is slightly over rated. Every person has a little of basic intelligence (which I believe every human being is gifted with). The lack of high level of intelligence can be compensated. Believe me this compensating factor is not just hard work. It is "hard work + confidence + interest". Once you develop these three in the field of work, a person can definitely compensate for lack of intelligence (if at all).
I do expect others to have varying opinions and comments on this; still I believe I have a strong point in the above conclusion.
Always,
sk
P.S: Any direct/indirect reference to ay person living/dead is purely unintentional. If I sounded a little over the board, I offer my apologies to anyone feeling hurt.
1 comment:
I don't understand success as what others acknowledge of us. To me it purely depends on our own acknowledgement on what we do.
Here is what I feel about intelligence & success:
To activate the natural intelligence residing in a person a stimuli is required. The stimuli can be anything: surroundings, hardwork, interest, realization, humiliations. Just anything. When a person identifies what is the stimuli for him to realize his potential, he becomes successful.
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