Did you know that it is widely assumed by “authorities” that intelligence is a fixed trait determined by inheritance…

Yeah, they call it fluid intelligence. In other words, whatever you were born with, that’s as much as you’re ever going to have.

Guess what, their assumption is wrong.

Those of us who work with our creativity have long known that intelligence is a flexible component. It increases or decreases as our needs change. I’m astonished that this wasn’t understood by those who carry the torch of research (and get our tax dollars) into the wonders of the human mind.

Now a recent study proving that fluid intelligence can be increased as the result of “training” has the establishment baffled. What’s the surprise?

The mind will always expand its capacity to support current reality. If an individual is living a predictable repetitive lifestyle his or her fluid intelligence is going to shrink to the smallest amount necessary for that purpose. Someone living a passionate lifestyle where the personal discovery process creates challenging and fulfilling experiences will increase their “innate” intelligence in order to accommodate the new information necessary to support that expanding reality.

This is just common sense.

Those who measure intelligence as an indicator of true potential are themselves suffering from the myopic view of an arbitrary point within a naturally expanding and contracting neurological process… and proclaiming it to be “all there is”.

I thought we were well down the road from the flat Earth. .

Oh no, I can feel the fluid contracting again… better end this. I’m running out of brai

-Bob Baran