Mind - the ability to think, the ability to find solutions to life's problems, the ability to see and predict the consequences of their actions. The opposite of mind is stupidity, lack of mind is dementia.
An intelligent person is a person who knows how to think, uses his own head (not everyone does this and not always) and has the necessary material for this (subject knowledge). In the everyday sense, an intelligent person is one who knows a lot. But, generally speaking, smart is not the same as well-read or educated. In part of society, a stereotype has developed that an intelligent person must necessarily know physics, mathematics and similar disciplines.
However, if a person knows a lot, this only speaks of his good memory and, possibly, of his desire to learn something. Smart, however, is more correct to call a person who can use his knowledge, on the basis of which he can develop his point of view on certain issues, make some logical conclusions and make decisions.
Inferences can be made both stereotyped and non-trivial, but in most cases they lead to the correct result. A smart person sees beyond his nose (looks into perspective), unlike most people. He is able to analyze events and distinguish the essential from the non-essential.
People are not always smart; in everyday life, it is replaced with varying degrees of success when acquired habits and automatisms, when educated, and sometime people simply turn off their heads and rely on their emotions and feelings. Concrete analysis suggests that most people seem to think hardly more than 10% of the time. People often do stupid things not because of a lack of intelligence, but because of a lack of habit to use it. Not all people like to think, it is not always accepted, and at least most women live most of the time, guided not by their minds, but by feelings. We can say that an intelligent person is tightly controlling his consciousness on a high note of concentration at a strictly specified point.
Intelligence is not the same as education. Education enriches and hones the mind, but it does not replace it, and among highly educated people you can sometimes find people who are not very smart. Intelligence is not the same as intelligence if intelligence is understood as the ability to quickly answer test questions, solve logical problems and puzzles.
Mind is not only the ability to think (think), it is also a life experience that involves the use of ready-made solutions, it is also cunning, ingenuity and other ways of finding the desired solution.
It is curious that a person thinks not only with his head, his entire body is involved in solving life problems: once helping him, once interfering. A clever person can be distinguished from a stupid one by the expression of his eyes, by intonation, and even by his gait. The hormonal situation in the body also affects the mind: an increase in testosterone (male sex hormone) levels improves intelligence and the ability to spatial (topographic) thinking.
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One of the participants in my trainings, Vera, was surprisingly smart - with a grasping, clear, very logical mind. But her voice was masculine, rude, her manner a little masculine, and on her upper lip there was a black mustache. It was not good, and Vera went for hormonal treatment. Hormonal treatment reduced her level of male hormones, her face became smooth, clean and without antennae, Vera's manners became more feminine - but suddenly everyone noticed how Vera (in comparison with the former Vera) became dull. Became - like everyone else …
It is certain that the mind is not only knowledge, the mind is formed by the nature of the leading human activity and the surrounding culture as a whole. So, B. M. Teplov wrote about the peculiarities of the commander's mind, I. P. Pavlov - about the peculiarities of the Russian mind.
The mind is associated with the psychological characteristics of a person. You can know a lot, but with crooked beliefs, inadequate programs and positions, be a fool at the same time. Because of personality, the mind can be lazy, sly, or fearful. Women in general are no more stupid than men, but in business situations involving conceptual thinking and making responsible decisions, men usually act smarter, since they are less likely to be driven by emotions.
The male mind (sometimes it is simply called the mind) is the habit of thinking for oneself, looking for a direct solution, without evasions and tricks. The female mind is different, women, given the opportunity to choose, often prefer to turn on cunning and solve the issue in a roundabout way, and, if possible, without breaking their own brains. Indeed, why think for yourself, if you can make helpless eyes, trustfully ask for help, and men will tell me everything?
It is also necessary to take into account the fact that many men do not like women who are too smart, and women who understand this once choose to be not too smart in order to get married more successfully …
A kind of mind is intelligence. Savvy differs from both masculine and feminine minds by finding rare, non-obvious, or workarounds.
The mind is only the beginning of the mind, its first step. The mind works from zero or, at best, from the first position of perception, it has only one (its own) point of view and one task - that is I and that is what I need. When a person develops the ability and habit to use different positions of perception, to think not only from the point of view of his own point of view, but also from the point of view of other people, as well as from the position of objective consideration, a systemic approach and the position of an Angel, his mind develops. Mastering the position of perception, a person develops his mind to the level of reason, and adding experience to reason, becomes wise.
The mind alone does not guarantee happiness, love, money, or career. To get all this, you need to take an inventory of your beliefs and values, build willpower, build your body … - you really need a lot more. However, if a smart person sets himself such tasks, he will achieve success faster than others, not so smart. Start working on yourself?
Can you get smarter? How to develop your mind?
To get smarter, you need to learn. But - to what and how? School and university contributes to the development of the mind, but does not guarantee anything: the smart one grows wiser in the process of studying, the stupid one only clogs his head with unnecessary nonsense. The smart one is not so much the one who knows everything, but the one who teaches himself the necessary and knows where what knowledge how to apply. The mind develops primarily in the environment of smart people and when solving life problems independently, when life teaches a person. The mind is a lot like the muscles in our body: it is supported by constant training and gradually atrophies without training.
N. I. Kozlov
