A substituição de acção de exploração potencialmente perigosa por um pensamento cada vez mais flexível e abstracto significa a possibilidade de expansão de conhecimento sem exposição directa ao perigo e constitui uma grande vantagem para o desenvolvimento da inteligência.
—Jordan Peterson, Mapas do Sentido, Lua de Papel 2019 (1999)
“I’m not that smart”
Someone said that to me the other day and it was heartbreaking.
The number of tasks in our culture that require someone who was born with off-the-charts talent is small indeed.
Just about everything else we need people to do is the result of effort, practice and care. It’s true that variations of that work are easier for some folks, but no one finds all of it easy going.
The correct thing to say is, “I don’t care that much.” I don’t care enough to do the reading, to fail along the way, to show up, to make a promise, to learn as I go, to confront failure, to get better at the work.
All of that might be true.
But you’re almost certainly smart enough.
—Seth Godin, Seth’s Blog
In fact, now that you know why we see what we do, to not enter conflict with doubt is to enter with ignorance, since intelligence is to not keep repeating the same behaviour in the hope of a different outcome. At the heart of “seeing yourself see differently” is a rational reason for courage… the courage to occupy spaces of uncertainty.
—Beau Lotto, Deviate, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018
What is interesting and ironic is that the more creative and intelligent the individual, the more difficult it can be to dissuade them from their anger response, since they are better at finding seemingly meaningful connections in what are in fact non-causal relationships, as well as creating internally consistent arguments that support their erroneous position, thus protecting them from uncertainty of ignorance.
—Beau Lotto, Deviate, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018
— É seguramente uma mulher inteligente, fascinante até, não o nego. Mas ela… É como se a sua inteligência semeasse discórdia. É uma inteligência maldosa, como o seu charme.
Sexto episódio da terceira temporada de L’Amica Geniale (2022), criado por Saverio Costanzo.