Defining Intelligence

A poor man has no food to eat. He has no choice but to eat what he can get hands at. And he is satisfied and happy and thanks god that he got what he got.

A person with money walks through the doors of a superstore. If he is new to this place, he just gets bogged down with the amount of choices he has in front of him. Even the most decisive of persons gets tempted to deviate from his plan till the time he has habituated himself into walking through the same alleys which house his necessities. Habituation and contentment makes a person with resources and/or endowments, experienced and rational. “Having focus” is the euphemism for habituation and contentment. It is one of those sought after qualities which apparently makes people successful and have more and/or control more resources. Externalities may also change the resource levels. But this should disturb the equilibrium for which the person is trained for.

Here comes the role of intelligence. A person who can mould himself with the adjustments in his resource level is an intelligent person. He who does not get bewildered with the change in resource fluctuation is a fool. He who can always push up the resource level is lucky more than anything else. But he, who adjusts to the bewilderment and then takes out something out of the situation before uncertainty changes it again, is an intelligent person. As my friend puts it “Change is an opportunity and not a risk”.

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Prakhar said…
How about grabbin the oppurtunity intelligently...i think the US SUPERMARKET is much more lucrative than wat we got here [:d]...if u kno wat i mean!!!
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