Opinion/Editorial
THE INTENSITY OF INTELLECT
Do you remember what your phone number was when you were seven years old? If you do, then do you make that information known proudly to others? If you do, then you have been gifted with a brain of uncommon dimensions and power. That little clue is enough to allow me to reach that conclusion. But you are not a genius. A genius will have remembered the same data but likely will never tell anyone, having learned quickly enough through the rough passage of time that the revelation of such information so separates him or her from the great mass of society around that exclusionary treatment will almost certainly follow such a revelation. High intellect is not all about measurable tests. Those tests are usually written, which lends skewed advantage to those who have a better understanding of the language the test is given in. High intellect does not have to translate into numbers or musical usage or understanding. High intellect is about observation and perception. What we can give out is a direct factor of what we can take in plus the processing we bring to that presentation, even if such a presentation is never made public.
A successful person of high intellect, acting as an espionage or investigate e agent, enters the personal office of an executive target, with the executive target already there. The agent looks at a good-sized library the executive keeps in a bookcase against one or more walls of his office. The agent, with merely a passing glance, memorizes every volume in the executive’s library. Later that agent ‘downloads’ the information to hard copy for analysis. A tremendous amount can be learned just by knowing what the executive reads and where in the library his or her books might be placed.
That agent is gifted to be able to do that. The genius agent, as opposed to merely gifted, might relate such a story to describe what it was like to work in the world of cutting-edge field intelligence. At some later date the person he talked to about that kind of work might enter the former agent’s home and be left in his or her library. That person might take in as much of the library as possible, in order to use such information in the manner the agent related. But a genius agent has already thought of that and has the library set up for exactly such perusal. The information learned by the visitor is skewed in whatever way the former agent chooses. High intellect is only part memory.
Dealing with genius is not to know them. They are among us, but they are disguised, like proverbial (and non-existent) vampires. To reveal themselves, or the truth of the depth and speed of how they think, is to also to know that one day soon, in some coming time, that a wooden stake may well be prepared for them. So how would you know one of these people of extreme intellect if you ran into one, as they are that rare (about one in half a million)? Not by playing chess or poker with them as they are smart enough to lose at most games because they know that the fame results may cause them to lose the relationship of the person who they are playing or the others who may be observing. You won’t catch on to one of them by listening to their lecture on complex physics results or advanced scientific treatises. No, you’d have to watch for them by using simpler observable behavior.
Look for the ‘glint of intellect.’ When you look into an intensely intelligent person’s eyes, almost all of them give off that glint. The sparkle emitted comes from the intensity of analysis they have just put you through as they gazed into your own eyes, like the sweep of a passing probe in the Star Trek series. That feeling you might get, that the person knows what you know, and all of your secrets, is rare and is a very subtle ‘talk’ about whom and what you may have in front of you. That vaguely uncomfortable feeling follows the glint you might have only marginally caught. So, if you run into one of these rare humans, quite possibly an ‘affinity’ twin if you have some high measure of intellect all of your own, then either prepare yourself to encounter a truly interesting mental and potentially physical adventure, or…. get to work sharpening a stake, as this is a tremendously powerful competition going on at all times across the face of the planet.
Men and women who bear the blessed curse of high intellect can be winners, but if truly uncovered or known then they can also be eliminated. Competition is ever so much easier encountered, and won, if the more meritorious or higher intellect is simply taken out of the equation, and so, here we are all the way back to sharpening the stake.
