Questioning Intelligence

[shadowplay]

Based on how you write, you possess at least some degree of verbal intelligence. If you want to access your "performance intelligence" (which includes math related ways of thinking), you might consider taking a real IQ test administered by a psychologist, as another poster suggested.

 

It's not important to be intelligent in every respect. It's fine to be great at writing and terrible at math. Just pick something you're good at and go with it.

[TwilightSky]

Well, the suggestion was an internet IQ test, I'd rather get a real one administered, which I have been thinking about (a psychologist is supposed to determine the root of any weakness). I'm trying to educate myself though, as this does play a significant facture in certain IQ tests. As far as being inherently bad at math,...I just know my math skills are very weak. Ironically, I was far superior at math as a child, than I am now. I am attempting to re-capture what I once had.

 

Anyway, I've been told I could be a professional writer by more than a few individuals, maybe I should try to hone that skill/talent?

 

I feel like Sisyphus right now, I just want to stop the cycle, and continue forward. I appreciate all the replies so far, and I'll respond to those I missed a little later. Work-related fatigue is setting in.

Edited June 17, 2010 by TwilightSky

[jean-luc sisko]

It's subjective.

 

How I define intelligence is via wisdom and interaction in the general world.

[jean-luc sisko]

It is called sympathy--he could've just felt sorry for me. Beyond that, I don't know.

 

Why would he lie? As others have said, what can he gain?

[laRubiaBonita]

for what it's worth: being a cashier is NOT an intellectual job and cash registers do all the math for the cashier- keeps human errors lower and tracks sales/ inventory .... you may as well be a bean counter if the psychologist thinks you need to count.

 

do you socialize at all? go out with friends... etc? did you know being with others helps build IQ?

[Els]

If you're wondering about your conventional intelligence, go take a reputable IQ test - it's that simple.

[TwilightSky]

No, he did not mean a cashier. He meant someone that counts the money when they empty the registers. Even so, though, not my thing.

 

Elswyth, like I said it has been considered.

 

Just because you have been rebelling against your dad's force and pressure, does not necessarily mean that you don't have a natural flair for math, though. Right now, it just means that you consciously and deliberately avoided math as a way to individuate yourself, and/or to message to your dad, "Up yours, Buddy!", and/or as a way to 'punish' your dad for his forceful interference.

 

Children do it all the time. As an adult, at some point you may want to give math a try because YOU want to...and be open to the fact that possibly your dad sensed in you something that you did not sense for yourself. In which case, nice that he was so in-tune with you right from the start, huh? A lot of kids can't claim having parents with that kind of 'intuitive understanding' of their chid(ren).

 

TS, if you do think you can stand some self-esteem building, I'd encourage you to Google "self esteem experts". There is an excellent website with that name; free lessons, videos and downloads. (I posted a link to it before but it got deleted.)

 

Best of luck.

 

Oh I'm well aware that lack of skill doesn't necessarily mean lack of innate talent. I just know right now that my skills/interest right now are very low in math.

 

As far as him being in tune...I think he had more faith in my sister than me. It hardly matters in the grand scheme of things.

Edited June 17, 2010 by TwilightSky