Quote Originally Posted by Alpha View Post
And Freya, why must intelligent people be afraid of the world as you say?
Hm, maybe I misunderstand you, but where did I say that they MUST be afraid of the world? They aren't necessarily. It's just that many people who claimed to be intelligent told me that they think the world is bad. (Funnily, they don't see any way to fix it, though they're intelligent.)

Okay, I see now that perhaps everyone thinks about intelligence otherwise. I don't think there is a proper definition for "intelligence", but here's how I see it: An intelligent person is able to think things through, make decisions he thinks about before and knows how this world is. This is definitely NOT a great definition, but it's basically what I think intelligence is.

I talked about that topic with my brother a while ago and we both agreed that probably the IQ is overrated. I think all those "intelligent" people told me their IQ and therefore said that they were intelligent. I've also heard that there are more types of intelligence. (Some kind of social intelligence, emotional intelligence, musical intelligence...) So I don't know what those people tested.