What do you think?
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Concordo com o artigo! Inclusive foi com essa curiosidade que descobri a arte da memĆ³ria e acabei nesse fĆ³rum. Saber que hĆ” muitas coisas a aprender Ć© animador!
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Edward De Bono said being extremely intelligent is like driving a car with a very powerful engine.
You can own a car with a powerful engine and be a terrible driver. You can own a car with a smaller engine and be a great driver.
He taught skills to think effectively. I suppose he would have considered curiosity an important thinking skill.
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Let me put it this wayā¦ if this were a college application essay, it would go on the waitlist pile.
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I appreciate the general āgrowth mindsetā message, but for me itās completely overpowered by the clickbait title, humblebrag tone, entirely self-referential links, and newsletter subscription nudge at the end.
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Argument from analogy requires that the analogy shares important characteristics with the original argument/statement/idea.
Iām not sure (the report of) what De Bono said meets that criteria. That is, I donāt think itās a very good analogy.
Valid point.
So, what type of car do you drive?
Iām curious. 
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Without curiosity I wouldnāt be here.
āCan I re wire my brain?ā āCan I make my memory better?ā. Found Memory Games on Netflix last year and now here we are.
My natural memory is absolutely terrible still without memory techniques, but I can learn anything
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I would say that stubbornes (that only partly come from curiosity) is also welcomed.
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Understanding the true meaning of being smart.
So fascinating.
May I add love to the situation?
The relationship between love and curiosity?
The relationship between love and success?
The relationship between being smart and success?
The relationship between being smart and being loving?
May I inquire that being smart has something to do with being loving?
So fascinating
Lots of questions, not many answers.
I am adding a note: letās not forget that curiosity killed the cat, not intelligence.
I think they both go hand in hand. It would be hard (or stupid ?) to ask between cognitive functions or skills.
Would you rather have short term or long term memory ? Would you rather have motor skills or cognitive skills ? Would you rather have thumbs or eyes? Not very relevant to our daily life.
I find that anything that promotes intelligence AND curiosity should be encouraged.
One without the other can lead to big disasters.
Intelligence without curiosity: I already know things so I will stop looking or doubting myself.
Curiosity without intelligence: letās just do this because we can. Whoopsā¦ sorry about that. I canāt take it back. My name is Pandora.
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Can one be really smart without being curious?
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have you seen paparazzi ?
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The thing is curiosity drives attention, which also drives memorization and learning.
And attention in itself could have a good deal to do with curiosity.
So the question is, am I always curious when Iām paying deep attention to something?
Hm. Iām either curious, or Iām in awe or appreciation, or bothā¦
The thing is, is that awe/appreciation seem to garner curiosity. So, if I see a shiny object, I donāt just appreciate it, I almost instantly believe that there is āmore shininessā to be curious about and drive me to pay more attention.
Also for a memorization perspective, I memorize things by making links to whatever Iām paying attention to, with things Iāve already memorized. So, a shiny object will remind me of similar and contrasting objects of the past. Which in some respects, curiosity will drive, because it will drive the āsearchā for those memory comparisons.
So could there be memorization without curiosity? Well, thereās autopilot. Letās say you effortlessly remember things. That also leads to me to ācould there be attention without any effort to pay attentionā? Well, if someone is trying to wake me up when I just want to go back to sleep, then yes, I would be paying attention without any effort or drive to do so.
So, it could be that curiosity is a motivational driver for learning.
Another analogy to consider is, āI have a great car with a powerful engine, and yet I never push the gas pedal, never take turns, never drive to places Iāve never been to beforeā.
So curiosity seems to drive the effort/learning/attention/exploration process.
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I think they should have chosen a better title. The title implies a false dilemma which, maybe itās a trend now, tends to distract one from reading it.
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Iām not sure that itās saying one or the other. A lot of people get caught up in devastating levels of self doubt like, āam I smart enough?ā and/or narcissism where their high scores on IQ tests cause them to look down on other people who they consider āless intelligentā. A person who is relentlessly curious (and/or who has certain other traits) can often close the gap with someone who has faster processing speed and stronger abstract thinking skills (āIQā).
Related: Learning Is a Learned Behavior. Hereās How to Get Better at It
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Well, Iām not sure about your psychological assertions.
But, sure. There will probably be some with higher IQs that may look down on others, but I would argue that they would be vastly in the minority.
Iāve met a lot of intelligent people in my lifetime, and they were all very curious people who were also quite humble. They were also generally interested in otherās viewpoints regardless of any āpedigreeā. Anecdotal and relatively small n, but still.
So when the title says one is better than the other, it implies that if a choice had to be made, one would be better choosing one over the other. Thatās why I characterized it as a false dilemma because I see people who have more than a few points above 100, as having a good dose of curiosity. To me, I would find it difficult to believe that someone who has a high IQ, would not also be curious. I think they go hand in hand
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This leads me to think about the topic of including of empathy in the definition/assessment of IQ, and how well social and emotional intelligence can be measured and achieved