thoughts on intelligence

[arethinn]

I don't generally think of myself as particularly intelligent.. oh, smater than the average bear, to be sure; but not the kind of intelligent that easily solves adventure games or logic puzzles. The steps or actions to be taken completely elude me; I'm not good at picking up on clues to figure them out. For learning to do a complex task or figuring out a new computer program (using an app, that is, not writing them), though, I find that the apparent actions to take are generally quite obvious, or I only have to be told once to remember (usually it helps to put it immediately into practice). Helping people with (to me) simple computer questions at work, however, puts this into perspective: clearly actions which are obvious to me are not necessarily obvious to all. Does this mean (circularly enough) that I am perfectly bright, just that I'm not as intelligent as the people as whom I'm not as intelligent? (whoa thar, English! whoa!)

How come they can still solve the adventure games, then? hmm....