the art of leading

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Just as imperfection makes us human, so does logical reasoning. When humans screw up, they normally look for whatever caused that screw-up, fix it, and try not to repeat it. That is what I consider a very elemental level of intelligence. That “mistake-recognition” skill also shows what many call adaptive capacity.

Other species in the animal kingdom, like ants and lizards, don’t have the capacity to go through this marvelous process. These other animals don’t learn from their mistakes; they just endlessly repeat them. They don’t recognize mistakes, and they aren’t able to adapt in the same logical way that human beings do.

Stupid people are very much like ants and lizards. But ants and lizards can be forgiven. Stupid people cannot. They’re human, and they’re supposed to have intelligence and adaptive capacity. They obviously make mistakes, as does everyone else. That makes everyone human, so that doesn’t make them particularly stupid.

What sets them apart from smart people is the fact that they don’t know if and when they have made a mistake. Furthermore, they don’t know what to do when they do make them. They deny their faults even when they know they are at fault.

They lack what ants and lizards lack too, which is logical reasoning. If you keep doing the same thing over and over again, you’ll keep screwing up over and over again. That is called being a stupid person.

Categories : Failure, Personal Development, Proactivity //