I can't remember what book I was reading, but it had a good paragraph talking about four levels of intelligence.
1. Ignorance
2. Opinion
3. Reason
4. Intelligence
I'm going to explain my story of dinging to level 4.
--------Begin life story---------
Just like most other stupid kids, I was a stupid kid. Without delving into my personal childhood, which I know you care about so much. I look back upon myself and hate every fiber of my past being. I would refuse to talk to people I didn't know, participate in any activities, or accept new things. These are all things I deprived myself of up until after I got out of high school. I didn't even really make friends until halfway though high school.
Let's stop at halfway through high school for a moment. I was so desperate for a girlfriend, that when I got one, I let her basically control my life. She wasn't even trying to do so. I was just so weak minded that I just went with it (I'm also going to blame the "OOH BOOBIES" factor, cause hers were f'kin huge).
Fast forward a bit. I gained the sense to break up with that emo ball and chain. I later moved away from where I grew up. Parents got divorced, had to choose, blah blah blah.
Where I ended up was a unpleasant home with a tyrant of a step-father. My mother started down the road of clinical depression. His punk ass kids started to move in (His 17 year old daughter had a 1 year old son that was there also.) Happy things were scarce there.
I played a lot of World of Warcraft, and since I didn't have school, friends, or a job (up until summer). I had all the time in the world to get some important thinking done.
I spent a little over a year in that personal little hell hole. I got to watch my cat, Mouse, struggle through his last breaths of life on April 18th. Having no friends at home, he was the best I had. You can imagine the complete devastation.
It wasn't hard at all to purposely get myself kicked out of that house, so I did, and moved in with my dad sometime mid-summer. Back in the area where the few remaining friends I had where. Since then, I've never been happier.
------End life story-------
So now that I've gone through my life story. What does any of that have to do with ultimate intelligence? Well, when you spend long enough in the presence of everything that can be wrong in a human, you quickly learn what is right. You learn to appreciate human interaction, trying new things, going out and living life.
You learn what is good and right, and what is wrong and bad. Once you realize you are in full control of yourself and decide to do right, you'll never want to go back to being wrong.
There is right and wrong in everything in the world. Success and failure. Black and white. Good and evil. Superior and inferior. Logical and illogical. There is no mixing and matching. you're either on the Good, successful, superior, logical, correct side; or the bad, fail, inferior, illogical, incorrect side.
Which do you choose, and how far into the spectrum are you going to place yourself. If I were a Bioware RPG character, I would be 99% good (Can rarely ever be 100% on anything). I chose to be that way, and I act upon every action with the intent to be correct, logical, good hearted, and superior. If I'm not 100% certain in myself, then I treat myself with skepticism, and keep an open mind to anything that has the potential to be more correct.
I feel there is nothing I cannot do. There is nothing I can't learn. Nothing I can't accomplish. I'm a healthy, able bodied human. As such, anything possible, is possible. For there are only two things that stop a human from doing something. Impossibility, or themselves.
Knowing these things is what I consider, ultimate intelligence. Let nothing stop you.
1. Ignorance
2. Opinion
3. Reason
4. Intelligence
I'm going to explain my story of dinging to level 4.
--------Begin life story---------
Just like most other stupid kids, I was a stupid kid. Without delving into my personal childhood, which I know you care about so much. I look back upon myself and hate every fiber of my past being. I would refuse to talk to people I didn't know, participate in any activities, or accept new things. These are all things I deprived myself of up until after I got out of high school. I didn't even really make friends until halfway though high school.
Let's stop at halfway through high school for a moment. I was so desperate for a girlfriend, that when I got one, I let her basically control my life. She wasn't even trying to do so. I was just so weak minded that I just went with it (I'm also going to blame the "OOH BOOBIES" factor, cause hers were f'kin huge).
Fast forward a bit. I gained the sense to break up with that emo ball and chain. I later moved away from where I grew up. Parents got divorced, had to choose, blah blah blah.
Where I ended up was a unpleasant home with a tyrant of a step-father. My mother started down the road of clinical depression. His punk ass kids started to move in (His 17 year old daughter had a 1 year old son that was there also.) Happy things were scarce there.
I played a lot of World of Warcraft, and since I didn't have school, friends, or a job (up until summer). I had all the time in the world to get some important thinking done.
I spent a little over a year in that personal little hell hole. I got to watch my cat, Mouse, struggle through his last breaths of life on April 18th. Having no friends at home, he was the best I had. You can imagine the complete devastation.
It wasn't hard at all to purposely get myself kicked out of that house, so I did, and moved in with my dad sometime mid-summer. Back in the area where the few remaining friends I had where. Since then, I've never been happier.
------End life story-------
So now that I've gone through my life story. What does any of that have to do with ultimate intelligence? Well, when you spend long enough in the presence of everything that can be wrong in a human, you quickly learn what is right. You learn to appreciate human interaction, trying new things, going out and living life.
You learn what is good and right, and what is wrong and bad. Once you realize you are in full control of yourself and decide to do right, you'll never want to go back to being wrong.
There is right and wrong in everything in the world. Success and failure. Black and white. Good and evil. Superior and inferior. Logical and illogical. There is no mixing and matching. you're either on the Good, successful, superior, logical, correct side; or the bad, fail, inferior, illogical, incorrect side.
Which do you choose, and how far into the spectrum are you going to place yourself. If I were a Bioware RPG character, I would be 99% good (Can rarely ever be 100% on anything). I chose to be that way, and I act upon every action with the intent to be correct, logical, good hearted, and superior. If I'm not 100% certain in myself, then I treat myself with skepticism, and keep an open mind to anything that has the potential to be more correct.
I feel there is nothing I cannot do. There is nothing I can't learn. Nothing I can't accomplish. I'm a healthy, able bodied human. As such, anything possible, is possible. For there are only two things that stop a human from doing something. Impossibility, or themselves.
Knowing these things is what I consider, ultimate intelligence. Let nothing stop you.
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