One Way to Define Intelligence
“It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.” (“Discourse,” Deseret News, Sept. 30, 1857, 238.)
This makes a lot of sense to me because I am currently in the process of reading journal articles and books that have a lot of technical information. One of the big challenges of doing research is to understand it at a level that I can explain both to people with a background in these fields and to people who have none. I think it’s pretty hard to do, but when you succeed you can make a great impact.
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December 9th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
That’s a good quote. I’m trying to learn to do the same thing in my field, but it’s hard because everyone has a different background and level of understanding. I guess we’ll just have to keep trying.