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Do you think you are stuck with the intellect you were born with? So did scientists for decades. The good news is you’re not. Scientists have recently proven that your intelligence is not set in genetic stone.
Intellect is trainable.
Cognitive scientist Andrea Kuszewski wrote a fascinating article in Scientific American about ways to improve one’s fluid intelligence.
First, let’s define fluid intelligence. It is:
The ability to solve novel reasoning problems and is correlated with a number of important skills such as comprehension, problem solving, and learning. Crystallized intelligence, on the other hand, involves the ability to deduce secondary relational abstractions by applying previously learned primary relational abstractions.
Think of fluid intelligence as your capacity for reasoning and learning new things, retaining those things, then using that retained knowledge as a foundation to solve a new problem.
Think of fluid intelligence as your processing speed, your RAM. While crystallized intelligence is what you already know and operate with, your ROM, to use a computer analogy.
