Quote Originally Posted by psychocat
...So in conclusion would someone please like to give me a suitable definition of "Intelligent" because you can be book smart but you also need a bit of street smarts if you want to make it in this life.
Errr. So far so good.
Quote Originally Posted by SpiritLevel
the definition i used was;

Intelligent is to be clever.

Being clever, I'd say, is the ability to do that McGyver stuff with the tools before you. Not just tools literally before you, but also tools that can be made with the tools you see. Cleverness is sometimes seeing what other people do not see, or hearing what other people do not hear...
Right.
Quote Originally Posted by psychocat
Knowledge is vague at best.
Which is more important?
The ability to repair a motorcycle or the ability to work out the finances of running a business, very different skills are needed but if you have a broken bike a banker is no good and visa versa.
Everyone has a skill or ability it just differs in direction.
Errr. How is knowledge vague? I suppose being 'in-the-know' or having knowledge of something is vague until it is required to bring that knowledge to the fore. I gotta wonder about the statement 'knowledge is vague'. If I considered my knowledge to be vague I think it would come about because I rarely use what I know. Assessing someones knowledge is vague if you just stand and look at them. Provoking reactions gives better scope of someone's knowledge, then what they know becomes less vague.

Having the ability to repair a motorcycle demands some practical knowledge of mechanics and electrics since those are the main subjects topics involved. Having the ability to work out finances demands a knowledge of elements of mathemetics. Either task, be it motorcycle repair or financing, requires knowledge. Knowledge on its own is useless. The applied use of knowledge dectates the usefulness of what one knows. More over the statement of knowledge being vague, is the satement that that statement is vague in itself. And yes, we all do have our own skills and abilities that we are good and shit at.