Poll: Being Intelligent vs. Being Gifted

[Silver]

I'm really not sure. I AM gifted already, but that's as much of a disadvantage as it is an advantage. Or at least it has been.

Sure, school was really easy for me, and I could spend time doing other things, which was fun, and still got excellent grades without studying for a single test.

That was the worst thing that could have happened to me, since no matter how gifted I am I have to learn some things, and I have to study, later on. That caused me to drop out of college-equivalent since I couldn't keep it. It was completely foreign to me to have to study and juggle school with other things, I wasn't prepared for it.

Instead of making things easier that's cost me a lot of years trying to catch up again, when I could have finished both regular school and college in 5 years.


Taking this into consideration, your intelligence option seems better, but I wouldn't really want it. It's not me, and the only reason it's better is because of a flaw in our society and education system. What I WANT is to be able to realise my potential, in a society where it's both encouraged and apreciated.

 

[starrman]

A healthy balance for me. One without the other is a grass is always greener scenario waiting to happen.

 

[beddo]

Intelligent.

Although gifted in intelligence would be good. I'd hate to go through life being gifted at sport but stupid. Like David Beckham, he's gifted at football but barely seems to understand the world around him.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

Where is the option for neither, but to just be an ordinary person?

 

[Kevvers]

On my mathematics course there were two kinds of clever people: gifted mathematicians and intelligent people. The latter would have to work twice as hard to keep up with the former. However, the former seemed to have a much more stressful time revising when exam time came around because they didn't have the work ethic of the latter.
So, its swings and roundabouts -- if you really want to shoot for the moon you need to be both gifted and intelligent with a solid work ethic.

 

[DolphinWacker64]

I don't need to choose. I was born a very Intelligent person, and in today's society of 'everyone else that you meet is generally a retard', I'm gifted to not be included in the populational statistic.

Seriously, Nearly everyone I meet is a total and complete idiot. I've only met three people in my life that I can safty declare 'Intelligent".

Maybe It's because my I.Q. is 210...

 

[DolphinWacker64]

On my mathematics course there were two kinds of clever people: gifted mathematicians and intelligent people. The latter would have to work twice as hard to keep up with the former. However, the former seemed to have a much more stressful time revising when exam time came around because they didn't have the work ethic of the latter.
So, its swings and roundabouts -- if you really want to shoot for the moon you need to be both gifted and intelligent with a solid work ethic.

Very good discription of classifing smart people like me. I guess I am a gifted Mathematician, for I have relative ease with work, but I am extremely lazy and never study.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

Seriously, Nearly everyone I meet is a total and complete idiot. I've only met three people in my life that I can safty declare 'Intelligent".

Maybe It's because my I.Q. is 210...

Then you'll know that I'm about to launch into the common lecture about IQ not being an accurate measure of intelligence and the variations between different tests on offer being substantial and age dependent...but I would say that I'm only a 130...

 

[DolphinWacker64]

Seriously, Nearly everyone I meet is a total and complete idiot. I've only met three people in my life that I can safty declare 'Intelligent".

Maybe It's because my I.Q. is 210...

Then you'll know that I'm about to launch into the common lecture about IQ not being an accurate measure of intelligence and the variations between different tests on offer being substantial...but I would say that I'm only a 130...

True, very true. But I believe my score of 210 because I took nearly two dozen different tests and averaged the scores together. It was extremely boring because I felt several of the questions were way too easy, but I was interested after my first score came out and legally declared me a genius. I never believe first results, so thats why I took so many.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I'd rather be gifted than intelligent. As I am.

 

[Abedeus]

Maybe It's because my I.Q. is 210...

Lie, or you are 5 with the intelligence of 10 year old. Or you are one of the most intelligent people on Earth.

And I say that with my 142 IQ. Okay, now it's only 134, as it dropped a bit over the last 4 years or so, but... I don't know if I'm intelligent or just gifted.

I do know I have a great visual memory and I grasp every concept, language and skill extremely fast. I've been studying karate less than my friends at school, yet I was better when it came to using techniques. But since I'm lazy, I'm a jack of all trades. I'm pretty good at school... But even though I prefer some of the subjects compared to others, I do not exceed in any of them. Maybe except for English and Computer Study, but that's because I have more to do with those two than anyone else in my class.

I'd rather be good at only two or three things and weak at the others... Because while I have many skills, I have never perfected most of them.

 

[bad rider]

Gifted, but thats because i'm lazy.

 

[Souplex]

I enjoy being both. *Suplexes a bear while singing the complete lyrics to the H.M.S. Pinafore*

I truly am the model of a modern major general.

 

[xXGeckoXx]

Intelligence. Through diligence you can become talented at something, but you cannot become intelligent.

I think this says it all you can not become intelligent. If you don't have the spark you just can't. You can enrich your knowledge to your limit but that limit won't go up. You Gift is just natural talent and talent can be acquired through work if one wishes so.

 

[goodman528]

Dumb question. How many gifted people got anywhere without hard work? Even Einstein said his genius was "99% hard work and 1% inspiration". Who am I to argue with Einstein?

"Gifted" people only exists in novels and movies.

 

[Grenbyron]

A person that is gifted usually is only gifted in one specific area. Example is Rain Man. A person that is intelligent has the option to be "gifted" in any area they choose. Even if that area is BS. The only man I can think of that was both Gifted and Intelligent was Leonardo DiVinci. Who wouldn't want to be that guy?

 

[spuddyt]

I was told my IQ was incalculable by my educational psychologist -_-'