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All human beings possess a heart, soul, mind and strength. Nothing of any true significance can be achieved unless this is understood.
- Information
- Knowledge
- Smart
- Intelligent
- Insight
- And wisdom.
Normally these words are used synonymously with each other. Would you please allow me to assign different meanings to these words, and in the process of doing so, inflame them with purpose?
Let’s begin with a little piece of prose:
We gather information
To study knowledge
Then learn what’s smart
So we can experiment by being intelligent
To acquire insight
Which promotes wisdom.
Stuck right there in the middle of the verses, is the word “intelligent.” Intelligent is the status we achieve when after gathering information, gaining knowledge and discerning what is really smart, we decide to experiment with these ideas to improve our quality.
As you can imagine, it is possible to stop off at any stage along the way and declare yourself to be intellectual.
For instance, someone can just go on the Internet, dig up the latest gossip, and tout themselves “informed.”
Other folks go to the university and cram for exams, to repeat back knowledge which has been determined as acceptable for acquiring a diploma. (Some of those brave souls actually go out, put their knowledge into application in the business world and get smart.
But intelligent is when we personally experiment, challenging what has come our way and what has been taught to us, in order to unearth validity.
I call it the “Rit dye test.”
I’m probably dating myself a bit by talking about Rit dye. When I was a teenager I had a lovely shirt, but it was white. I wanted it to be gold.
So I bought a box of Rit dye, which was labeled “yellow.” Fortunately for me, on that day I was in an astute mode, so I read the directions. They cautioned me to take a small spot on the bottom of the shirt and dye it first, to make sure I had the color I desired.
I did that, and lo and behold, it was anemic.
It took me about eight boxes of Rit dye, blending yellow, red, some blue–well, I forget all the combinations I tried–to end up with the perfect gold for my shirt.
Having run all the tests, I dunked my shirt into the concocted dye and pulled out a magnificent masterpiece.
That’s what it means to be intelligent.
Just because its been said, proclaimed, preached, called holy or scientific, take a moment and test it in your own life.
It is the only way we get to the point where we gain the insight which leads to wisdom.
If you’re not willing to challenge the status quo and test it, be prepared to land in the discarded pile of all those who trusted conventional thinking and fell short.
It’s the Rit dye philosophy: if you know what color you’re looking for, be intelligent enough to seek it out until you get just the right hue.
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