Everybody goes through it at some point of time or the other, in which one feels totally inert. The pressures seem to be too much to take on. Familiarity is not present and though one might have talked his mind into pursuing something totally new, there is no fuel to do so. You feel that you have feet of lead, that just refuse to move in the direction that you want them to move. What then?
The more intelligent the person, the greater are the chances of suffering from these symptoms. I find that the less intelligent ones are spared of this dilemma as they just work with their blinkers on. They live their entire lives around the median. Finishing a project doesn't give them a spectacular high, but they are scared of the consequences of not finishing it. In the case of the more intelligent ones, there is no such thing as a median. In the event of a finished project or task, the feeling of exhilaration is substantial, but strangely, it is their ability and the confidence in their abilities that stops them from feeling scared when things don't go their way. They exude an air of nonchalance about them. They know that they can do a certain task and the actual completion of the task is only secondary to them. They work only for their own satisfaction, and since their own standards are very high, in the event of them being satisfied, nobody find faults in the completed work. But then, that is the million dollar question. How often do the intelligent people complete their work?
One of the main reasons that intelligent people don't always get the top grades in a class is only because they are more bothered about their own satisfaction. If they perceive a task to be less challenging, they often even avoid it. The less intelligent ones pounce on it, and do not cease till it conforms to the standards that someone else sets for it. They seldom set their own standards and even despise the more intelligent ones who do it. The end result? The less intelligent person has completed one hundred percent of the easy to do task while the more intelligent person may or may not have completed his more difficult to complete task.
An intelligent person is temperamental, most of the time and paces himself. He does not bother in syncing himself to the pace of others, so if all goes well and the person does not get distracted or jaded, the task will get completed and very well at that, but in case he gets demotivated or distracted, that will be the end of the progress.
So, is being born intelligent a crime? Or can intelligence be used as an excuse for under performance??? Neither, but often, the troubles the intelligent people face when making decisions is mocked by others who are not considerate and often less capable. The only real solution is that the intelligentsia should give up their quirkiness and work with a will. Whether the job comes up to their own standards or not, it is there and it has to be completed, and there are no two ways about it.
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An article to think about.If an 'intelligent'person feels that the work is less challenging,he/she tends to take it light heartedly and become more complacent.This may be the reason for their under-performance.On the other hand the 'less-intelligent' people who are aware that they are not intelligent try and work hard to make up for their intelligence.But is it right to say that the 'intelligent' people do not work?
I have not said that intelligent people do not work. I have only said that more often than not, we see less intelligent people out-performing their more intelligent counterparts in all evaluations that don't really require a high level of intelligence. When it comes to hard-core intelligence testing evaluations, the intelligent ones automatically come out on top, much like cream on top of coffee, but they hardly hold their own in less demanding situations. They seem to perform only when the stakes are really high. This is how I see it, at least.
Man! I want my brain back!!
How can you think exactly like me? How can you use the same phrases that I would have?? Amazing stuff!!
Thank you, but i feel a bit jaded now, so i may not complete the task of beginning to complete tasks.
Well some how i also find my thoughts parallel to the lines of author, but with one deviation that it is not the flip side of being intelligent. It is the flip side of being ambitious. I think hard work can always be an substitute to intelligence, may be the vice versa is more appropriate. There are peoples whose IQ levels are not that high, but still are ambitious enough to set their own benchmarks and they do it. I would like to put up an example for it, in which the author would surely pick up interest. Michael schumacher, when his IQ level was tested, it was found just above average, It elicited a curiosity in researchers, coz as per them a man with that limited level of IQ can't make such fast intelligent decisions, in a fraction of second. Later on they discovered, that schumi's undaunted practice for over years had made his brain such "Experienced" that all those speedy movements of cars had become trivial to him. Researchers believe that he never won because he has some extra-ordinary brain, but becoz of his confidence level developed from his experience. He never made a decision based on a current temporal situation. He made his move when he thinks that it is the right time, thinking ahead of other competitors, who always thought of "short goal".
So my context for giving this example is, it doesn't matters whether you are intelligent or hard working, what matters is you are ambitious or not. People who are driven by ambition can think "long", those who are not can only think short. This long sightedness of ambitious persons ensures the persistence of their identity, as an individual, as an critical resource to the world.
The author has very rightly said that how often intelligent peoples complete their task ? yes, i agree that figures may be low, but the matter is not completion of a task. It's a matter of a choice. What do you want to do in life? Set a mark of yourself or just roll over and die. It can't be guaranteed that one's ambition will be recognized by the world after them. For understanding somebody's ambition, it requires to be ambitious enough and as i said figures are low :) . I think in the last what matters is the thought whether it was worth trying or not..........
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