We think we know the answer to the question, “How intelligent are you?” The real answer, though, is that the question itself is the wrong one to ask. How Are You Intelligent? The right question to ask is the one above. The difference in these questions is profound. The first suggests that there’s a finite way of gauging intelligence and that one can reduce the value of each individual’s intelligence to a figure or quotient of some sort. The latter suggests a truth that we somehow don’t acknowledge as much as we should—that there are a variety of ways to express intelligence, and that no one
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