What is Intellectual Wealth?
At first thought, I believe most people would associate Intellectual Wealth to be equivalent of Intelligent Quotient (IQ). So before I go on further, allow me to define what do I mean by Intellectual Wealth. Intellectual Wealth here, would refer to issues pertaining to Intellectual Wisdom and not IQ of any sort.
Let me explain why I would prefer to discuss Intellectual Wisdom as compared to IQ.
IQ refers to a score given for several standardized intelligence tests. The IQ test is commonly based on the model of the Stanford Binet Intelligence scale, which disregards many other components of intelligence. In fact, an IQ test primarily measures mathematical and spatial reasoning, logical ability, and language understanding.
Therefore, a person who speaks English as a second language, might fare poorly on the language comprehension aspects of the test, and an IQ test would not be an adequate nor comprehensive measurement of his intelligence.In addition, an IQ test does not take into account of factors like life experience, wisdom, or personal qualities. Therefore, it is not a predictor of a person’s worth, though it has occasionally been used as such.
Moreover, people can often be trained to take IQ tests, which can improve their scoring. Someone who scores higher because of training or repeated testing is not necessarily more intelligent. It is only verifiable, at best, that the trained person does better on the IQ test than the person who is not trained. It has also been proven scientifically that the IQ levels may vary according to certain genetic makeup which is not within the control of us.
As such, I believe that it does not serve much purpose to be talking about ways to increase your level of IQ. A discussion on Intellectual Wisdom would be of much greater value to the reader.
Intellectual wisdom is the quality of being wise, having the ability and power of judging rightly and following the soundest course of action, based on knowledge, experience, understanding of the whole situation on hand. This would also require other attributes such as having foresight, being streetwise and tactful.
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