IMAGINE a world wherein admission to the highest universities – to Oxford or Cambridge, or to Harvard or Yale – had been restricted to individuals who had been very tall. Very quickly, tall individuals would conclude that it’s the pure order of issues for the taller to succeed and the shorter to fail.
That is the world we reside in. Not with taller and smaller individuals (though taller individuals usually are ). However there may be one measure by which, in lots of locations, we are inclined to determine who has entry to the most effective alternatives and a seat on the high decision-making tables: what we name intelligence. In spite of everything, somebody blessed with intelligence has, by definition, what it takes – don’t they?
Now we have issues precisely the mistaken manner spherical. The lesson of analysis on my own and lots of others over a long time is that, via historic accident, we have now developed a conception of intelligence that’s slim, questionably scientific, self-serving and in the end self-defeating. We see the results within the faltering response of many countries to the covid-19 pandemic, and a bunch of different issues equivalent to local weather change, growing earnings disparities and air and water air pollution. In lots of spheres, our methods of enthusiastic about and nurturing intelligence haven’t brokered clever options to real-world issues.
We want a greater manner. Luckily, at the least the start line for that is clear. By returning to a extra scientifically grounded thought of intelligence, who can have it and the way we set about cultivating it in ourselves and others, we are able to start to reboot our decision-making smarts and reshape our world for the higher.
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