why do people feel high intelligence is so important?

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<p>“Intelligence” as measured by IQ tests is pretty useless. “Success”–an even more arbitrarily-defined concept, is a function of intelligence among thousands of other such concepts. </p>

<p>But I would argue that none of them are quite so significant as passion, insight and discipline.</p>

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<p>wiscongene, did you see ron paul in Wisconsin?</p>

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<p>No, why? He was here?</p>

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<p>yup, drew a crowd of 5200 the other day … at UW Madison i think.</p>

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<p>Not at Madison yet, so I wouldn’t know. But things will get interesting over here as the election comes closer, right now I have to try and make sense of the Walker recall election which just got approved.</p>

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<p>oh, but maybe you would have heard in the NEWS. Are you going to UW for college?</p>

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<p>I have never studied philosophy and likely never will too. yeah, i think a lot of people will agree and have agreed that there is this acceptance component to wisdom, this peace that seems to come with having it. i’m not sure jimbosteve would say it equals regret either - rather its relationship to regret is maybe more that it is how one comes to peace with ones regret (if you feel you learned something from your mistakes - feel you gained wisdom from them - then maybe those mistakes become less painful). </p>

<p>I wouldn’t say anyone is a genius here (though some people certainly have a knack for being fluent - cough - jimbosteve - cough). but I love to read * everyone’s * thoughts personally.</p>