WRITTEN IN SAND

If you are curious, are you intelligent?

No.

If you are curious, you become intelligent.

Your older teachers grew up in a world where science had established that intelligence was not a variable. You had a certain degree or level, determined by genetics and environment. That is why the IQ test was done, and once they gave you the result, there was nothing you could do. It was not even like your height, about which something can be done to appear taller.

But if science is truly science, it cannot stay with what it knows, but rather it asks more questions, it strives to see the world with much more clarity or depth, and in that way it fulfills its true mission.

And so it happened in this case with psychology

I think we all know or assume that curiosity is more of an attitude than a capacity. We say that some people are more curious than others, but we don’t assume that they are curious because they are determined to be so, but because they have a certain attitude. It is something more unstable, more indeterminate, more free than intelligence, which was supposed to have a degree that could not change. Under certain circumstances, we are all curious, and there are situations in which you have to be curious in order to participate in the activity, such as when playing trivia, or when faced with a math problem, or when you are in a new place. You travel to a place you don’t know, you have directions, but you yourself feel that you must ask some, several questions of strangers to be more sure of arriving on time and in a proper manner. Perhaps you didn’t think you were curious, but under certain conditions, it is better to be. We even reproach ourselves, “Why didn’t you ask?”

If curiosity is something more like your muscles than your bones, more like your weight than the color of your eyes, and curiosity is a trait of intelligence, then intelligence is not something stable and fixed and carved in stone.

Then you can be smarter.

We can all be smarter.

The companies we work for could do many things to develop the intelligence of their employees.

Do you think schools work to make us smarter?

What do you think?