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I’d rather write than talk. Nobody interrupts! Posting monthly or less now--see below. |
My original purpose for this blog, which I started in August of 2019, was to see if I could maintain consistency, to discover what I want to write about, and to find my writing voice. In January, I started a "niche-less" blog at Wordpress.com where I've published weekly. -- Kit’s Kontemplations  . -- I'm preparing to start a Catholic blog on Wordpress.com where I'll post weekly, and another site to put the rest of my writing. I also want to spend more time reading other blogs and offering thoughtful comments, both here on WDC and elsewhere. At most, I will publish once a month at no set time in this blog starting in September of 2020. Thank you to those who have read and rated any posts on this blog. I really appreciate it. I did NOT want to write “about” me on this blog. I wanted to share my interests, discoveries and maybe a few useful insights. If anything I've written helps even one person, whether or not they respond to the post, then this blog has been successful. |
| So many people judge others or themselves as not being either smart or intelligent because of a lack of education. On the other hand, people with a PhD are often considered more intelligent or smart than they actually are. Certainly there is at least a minimum level of intelligence to complete high school and more intelligence is required to obtain university degrees. Intelligence is defined in the following ways:  the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations the act of understanding the ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason the capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc. the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.Dictionaries:  Merriam-Webster Dictionary Cambridge Dictionary Dictionary.com Oxford Dictionary There are several types of intelligence. Consider these five examples which can be enhanced by, but which do not depend on education: Crystallized It depends on knowledge and skills gained through experience, education and training and what we learn through our culture. It remains fairly constant but can increase through development of additional knowledge and skills. Fluid It refers to our ability to: reason, plan, solve problems, see relationships and learn quickly in new situations. It also includes the ability to think abstractly, where others think (and communicate) in a much more literal fashion. Visual processing It involves the ability to visualize, remember and manipulate images in the ‘mind’s eye’. It enables the imagining of objects changing as they move and the ability to predict how they will look after a specific number of twists and turns. Processing speed It refers to how fast your mental processes are when performing basic cognitive tasks like scanning text for something. This one is most affected by age and can be improved by training exercises. Short-term working memory It refers to the memory system that holds in mind a limited amount of information for brief periods. Examples include remembering directions while driving, reason through something to find a solution, or calculate a 15% tip. Education develops your intelligence; it does not determine it. Intelligence is therefore an internal force that governs our capacities and our limitations in acquiring skills in different areas. Education is something that is provided by an external force, typically a teacher, tutor, mentor or parent. Education is what helps you to develop your natural intelligence in different ways. Being educated and being smart are something you earn by effort but intelligence is something you are born with. It is certainly possible to have street smarts and even book-smarts without having the benefit of more than the most basic education. Anyone with sufficient curiosity, diligence and only an elementary school education can increase their book-smarts by regular reading. People with greater intelligence and higher education may lack shrewdness and the creative ability that comes with a capacity for abstract thinking. You have greater opportunity to determine more how smart you will become than you have to increase the intelligence you were gifted with. Smart is an earned status. When we study and learn, we become smarter in the subject matter. Book smart or street smart, we have to put effort into becoming smarter. Intelligence, on the other hand, is something with which you are born. Your IQ is a measurement of your intelligence, and doesn’t change because it is a measure of your ability to learn. Reflect: Did reading the five types of intelligence enable you to perceive yourself as having more intelligence than you initially believed? Looking over the past year, or even the past month, can you identify ways you increased your “smarts”? Has your perception of your “smartness” changed for the better after reading this article?Sources 5 Factors of IQ The Difference between smart and Intelligent (Once and for all) Difference Between Education and Intelligence Difference Between Smart and Intelligent |
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Yes, I know some people do that but I'm a creative writer not a journalist. Poetry sells ... but it's a money-maker for only a few. I write A LOT. Almost 180 pieces since Spring equinox. My goal is 300-400 per year. One year I went over 1,000. I need to do more editing, polishing, sharing, submitting. Writer's block? Who has time for that? I don't.