I think I’ve discovered what makes a person appear to be intelligent (or what intelligent people often talk about) It’s not the knowledge that they study, the numbers they have memorized, or the papers they have written…those that are considered ‘intelligent’ are considered so because of their perspective.
I’m not talking about the kind of perspective that an artist learns in their line of work. The intelligent person looks at things witha different perspective, sometimes a different colored lense every morning. There is something to be said to look at something with the eye of an artist, seeing the beauty and compositions around you. It is something else entirely to see something with they eye of the scientist, ever eager to see the logical connections between things. It is something else entirely to see things in the numberical eyes of a mathematician, to see the beauty of the numbers that organize daily existance.
They read books and in some cases remember the names of the main characters, but more often than not they are labeled smart because of an incredable ability to see connections between seemingly unrelated things. The kind of person who cannot sit through a children’s film without seeing the in depth connotations that lie just beneath the surface. The kind of person who sees the principles of Marcism in the context of the Smurfs.
Perspective is why I love the book of John in the Bible. The other Synaptic gospels are so intent on the story that they forget to mention the improtant things. They relate direct prophesies, but they do not mention the deep teachings. John focuses on the extraordinary in the ordinary actions of Christ, he acts upon the actions that others have seen, that others just push aside as ‘odd’ or ‘quirky’ and forget the deep meaning beneath.
Perhaps perspective is what makes the difference between someone who is OK and someone who is simply amazing. The different lenses make the world an amazing place to reside.
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