> On 28 Nov 2014, at 6:59 am, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On 27 Nov 2014, at 7:28 pm, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Sometimes intelligence itself can be an handicap for getting the competence.
>> A stupid student can study the course better than a clever student, because
>> the clever student want to understand the details, and get stuck on
>> philosophical question, where the stupid student will have no problem
>> remembering by heart definition, and training itself to solve problems, not
>> even seeing that the method assumes a lot. The clever one will think to the
>> case where the method does not apply, and get stuck in trying to find a
>> better method, and fail to be able to solve the problem in the easy case,
>> because he is too much ambitious, and want a general method, with a proper
>> justification.
>
> I cannot see how anyone could not go along with this. This is a description
> of "The Intelligence Trap" and it has been defined in precisely this way by
> de Bono. Clever people are often stymied by their speed of operation. They
> lack humility and the ability to doubt their own beliefs and conclusions.
> Less clever types think more slowly and carefully because they doubt their
> intelligence is accurate when driven at high speed.
>
> You can own a Ferrari and wrap it and yourself around a tree by allowing your
> self-belief to drive the car rather than respond more cautiously to the
> dynamic environment through which you are moving.
>
> Or, you might own a clapped-out Deux-Chevaux and drive it at 30 clicks
> everywhere. You arrive late and infuriate other drivers along the way, but
> the difference is you arrive, whereas the Ferrari driver is dead.
>
> Kim
>
In fact, I myself just provided a neat example of the Intelligence Trap. You
will note that I sent the above post twice, the first being incomplete. In my
haste to type a response to B's passage, I did not perceive that my little
finger was hovering dangerously close to the "send" button as I typed and as a
result simple inadvertance engineered the outcome. This you might call an
"accident" but I might have avoided it by remaining more "cool" and less "ready
to be right". Inadvertance could be defined as a surfeit of self-confidence
which leads to poor perception. Thus, intelligence has negative feedback on
competence.
K
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