What if you're dumb?

vibragreen
Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:49:27 +0000

Well it’s been proven that “intelligence” is more environment than it is genetic. Vehicle, by simply exercising your mind you can become “smarter”. It’s true. Right now, start reading some books, any could be classical or harry potter. Take some courses you like and apply and challenge yourself. Figure out some tough math problems. Learn a new language. Learn to play an instrument. All these things force your brain to develop more connections and synapses between the neurons resulting in a higher “intelligence”.

Intelligence is a very loaded term I find. There are a myriad of “intelligences”. This is why describing intelligence in terms of an IQ is rather ridiculous. There is verbal intelligence, spatial intelligence, mathematical and problem solving intelligence, sensory intelligence, and a slew of others that develop in direct proportion to how frequently they are used. Genetics have surprisingly little to do with it. Do they have an impact on intelligence? Of course. Are they the determining factor in one’s intelligence? Not really. Or at least definitely not as much as these elitist snobs would have you believe.

Vehicle, I certainly feel for you and I have had a lot of the same thoughts as you have. Just apply yourself, and constantly challenge your mind with new ideas. And if someone really is twice as smart as you, you know how you can do better than them? Work twice as hard.