Feelers, as opposed to thinkers, can’t get beyond themselves, and far from welcoming discourse with others, they are
By Jack Kerwick
Recently, I had two conversations, one with a woman with whom I once had more than a platonic relationship, the other with my first cousin, who had always been more like a brother to me than a cousin. In spite of our differences in worldview, I had always at least respected their intelligence. I suppose I still do.
Yet intelligence, which is a raw, native endowment, and intellectual prowess, which is every bit as much a developed skill set as any other, most emphatically are not one and the same. More people are intelligent than are intellectually adept, and while some measure of intelligence is necessary for intellectual fitness, a genuinely curious and critical thinker can easily appear to be appreciably more intelligent than those with higher IQs but flaccid and undisciplined minds.
The motivational speaker Tony Robbins
once remarked that the old adage “Knowledge is power” is mistaken.
Rather, power arises when knowledge is executed, when
it is put into use. Similarly, intelligence uncoupled from bold,
critical thinking; diluted by fear, prejudice, hatred, and arrogance;
and/or anesthetized by the mind-numbing soundbites, memes, and slogans
of nakedly partisan hacks is of little value............To Read More......
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