Friday, November 11, 2005
Homework "Intelligence"
Intelligence Investigation
Q1, Do you think intelligence is fixed at birth, or is constantly changing?
A, No, I don’t think so. In my opinion, people’s intelligence is not fixed at birth except for genius. I guess that childhood environment is highly much to do with growth of intelligence, because I think that people who had met many opportunities to think or ponder on themselves when they were young can raise their intelligence up easily through their rest of life. Otherwise people who had been taken away chance to think or wonder on themselves by their parents’ overprotect or excessive indulgence when they were young would meet difficulties to swell their intelligence. That’s why I suggest that intelligence should change constantly.
Q2, Why do some people of seemingly average intelligence achieve extraordinary success?
A, I think this is because luck is the most important factor to achieve “extraordinary” success, so key to succeed is not intelligence but good fortune in this world. If you have no good luck, you can’t get a chance to succeed no matter how you are extremely intelligence. However when you are in nice timing and have a good fortune, you can get a chance to succeed. In other words, it is not intelligence but good luck that helps you to “get” a chance to succeed, but it is intelligence that maintains your state of success. Therfore some people of seemingly average intelligence achive extraordinary success.
Q3, Why do you value intelligence?
A, I think that people tend to admire person who has an incredible ability which is hard to acquire. That’s why people like entertainers, athletes, musicians, or artist are supposed to be valued by so many people. As for me, intelligence should be the same thing in this world, so intelligence is also one of the admirable abilities that people have. For this reason, I can’t help but value and admire people who are intelligence. This is just my opinion for this question. Your opinion must be different from mine, so please tell me your opinion.
Q1, Do you think intelligence is fixed at birth, or is constantly changing?
A, No, I don’t think so. In my opinion, people’s intelligence is not fixed at birth except for genius. I guess that childhood environment is highly much to do with growth of intelligence, because I think that people who had met many opportunities to think or ponder on themselves when they were young can raise their intelligence up easily through their rest of life. Otherwise people who had been taken away chance to think or wonder on themselves by their parents’ overprotect or excessive indulgence when they were young would meet difficulties to swell their intelligence. That’s why I suggest that intelligence should change constantly.
Q2, Why do some people of seemingly average intelligence achieve extraordinary success?
A, I think this is because luck is the most important factor to achieve “extraordinary” success, so key to succeed is not intelligence but good fortune in this world. If you have no good luck, you can’t get a chance to succeed no matter how you are extremely intelligence. However when you are in nice timing and have a good fortune, you can get a chance to succeed. In other words, it is not intelligence but good luck that helps you to “get” a chance to succeed, but it is intelligence that maintains your state of success. Therfore some people of seemingly average intelligence achive extraordinary success.
Q3, Why do you value intelligence?
A, I think that people tend to admire person who has an incredible ability which is hard to acquire. That’s why people like entertainers, athletes, musicians, or artist are supposed to be valued by so many people. As for me, intelligence should be the same thing in this world, so intelligence is also one of the admirable abilities that people have. For this reason, I can’t help but value and admire people who are intelligence. This is just my opinion for this question. Your opinion must be different from mine, so please tell me your opinion.
# posted by ShuN @ 3:09 PM 
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first of all, i also think some abilities are fixed before the birth and others are not. how you spend in your childhood may influence a lot on the rest of the life. however, i believe that nearly half of your intelligence is installed as a gnetic factor from your parents, which means the are already decided when you were born.
Yeah,I think sometimes we need luck to achieve something. But I don't think luck is all to achieve. We might have other ability or intelligence!!
I agree with your idea about intelligence is not fixed at birth. Actually it seems that childfood activities influence people's intelligence much more than those of adulthood
I agree with you on third question. I admire intelligent and talented people, too. They are very fascinating for me!
I agree with you on third question. I admire intelligent and talented people, too. They are very fascinating for me!
Shun, since I am giving you expressions, here is one from my dad: "I'd rather be lucky than good." He says this all the time, and your second answer made me think of this. I suppose that truly intelligent people know how to make their own luck... in other words, they put themselves in a position where luck may come easily.
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