“Intelligence is not what we know, but what we do when we don’t know”proclaimed Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget. A sentence that perfectly sums up a certain vision of intelligence, going beyond the simple accumulation of knowledge. It highlights the ability of some to adapt – with flexibility and discernment – faced with uncertainty. These same individuals who pronounce precisely without realizing these 6 key sentences.
Intelligent individuals are often “those who doubt”
In our society, intelligence is often measured by diplomas, academic results or the ability to restore knowledge. Except that in reality, intelligence is not always lodged in what is seen.
“It slips into a turn of sentence, a question formulated aloud, a question that one would not have dared to ask. It is spotted in those who take a step back, who know how to name what others do not even see”, Confides Amélie Boukhobza, clinical psychologist.
Thus, the most “intelligent” profiles are often those who doubt. Who say “I don’t know”“It depends “Or “I changed my mind “. Who formulate questions rather than give answers.
And sometimes we hear them say formulations like:
- “Wait, it’s more complicated than that”;
- “I wonder what it tells of me”;
- “I think I need to think about it again”;
- “I’m not sure I am right”;
- “What you say makes me think of something else …”;
- “What if we saw that differently?”
What do these words say about your intelligence?
These apparently harmless sentences often reflect the complexity of a spirit that refuses evidence, boxes, shortcuts.
“And this can even annoy. Because they ask when they do not understand. Because they want to know the meaning of words, gestures, silences. Because they question everything. Not to contest, just to understand”, underlines the practitioner.
So if we often have this impression:
- Not to think “like everyone else “ ;
- To seek the meaning behind things;
- Never be content with ready -made answers …
It is not necessarily that we are too complicated, “but rather the sign of a form of superior intelligence “concludes Amélie Boukhobza.