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Intelligence is not something you are born with, but instead a set of questions previously asked. To some degree it could be said that intelligence is instead the trait we commonly refer to as curiosity. When we see the world and existence as a whole our mind interprets the input, and determines an answer to a question we did not even know was there yet. The curiosity makes us question this result, "The sky is blue, Why?" which brings up more and more questions and because more and more questions are asked more and more answers are found. This amount of data is what we refer to as intelligence. When someone has lots of accurate observations about the world and how things work we say things like "they get it," or "they are intelligent." Most of the time these answers that seemed hard to think of are somewhat obvious, this is why so many of the greatest scientific discoveries or theories in history can be taught to grade schoolers. With these obvious answers, intelligence does not require some amazing brain, it just depends on the weight of the desire to search for these answers against any other desire. If it is more important to do the laundry than to think about something those connections will not be made as early as if the person had simply thought, at the same time interrupting your thoughts by moving out of the way of a moving bus is also going to set back the process of realization. It isn't necessarily my message that thinking is good or bad, but that questioning and thinking are, to the fully functional average human, the only thing required to be intelligent. Not answering but questioning. Answering leads nowhere but the answer, which may or may not be right, and questioning a huge number of ideas and temporary answers, each set more and more close to correct. Hence my approach to life. This is where my personality traits and assumptions come in, I feel it is better to make an educated guess than an uneducated one, and I feel it is better to act on the temporary answers to questions I have asked than to have no sort of education of the things around me when I want to make decisions. I feel my chances of living a good life are greatly enhanced if I know somethings about life.