Intelligence(4)

To find an intelligent person, one may not need to look any further than at the man with the long hair you see riding his bike up and down local highways. To me, intelligence is a completely different quality than being smart. Being smart is scoring high on tests, reading and comprehending great novels, and doing math problems longer than some can even count. Even though when you hear the word intelligence, you probably think of someone who knows a lot about many things, but it goes in deeper. Intelligence can be measured by how someone lives and reacts in their surroundings. Like the long haired bike rider, he may not know what 2 x 2 is equaled to, but he could probably tell you some things about how to get around town or which place is next to which. Therefore, intelligence can be based on how someone takes situations in everyday life and applies them to their best ability. And just because you may not be as intelligent as most people in one field doesn’t mean you’re not just as intelligent in another.