I’ll admit to being at a fork in the road. One path leads to seminars and presentations about Intunique–our unique intellect and personality/temperament–and the other is a journey for additional knowledge. I’m leaning toward the latter in that there is soooooo much info on the internet that relates to IQ, intelligence, personality and temperament. Anyone who wants to know the basics can find them without any difficulty. As one might expect in a soft science topic, there are plenty of theories and programs that exist to help us understand intelligence, etc.

I have a few ideas that I want to flesh out that relate to intelligence and personality. The old Nature vs Nuture debate is taking on a new spin as we get better and better research into DNA and the workings of the human brain. My personal belief is that Nature creates the limits of our intelligence and Nuture (and experience) is what determines where we end up on that continuum. I’m a big fan of multiple intelligence theory as put forth by Dr. Joy Paul Guilford and take to heart his belief that there is another level of intellectual abilities up and above what he proposed in his Structure of Intellect model. I believe that what we will find is that there are higher intellectual abilities that are compounds of the basic intellectual abilities. I also believe that we will continue to learn more and more about the biological basis of personality and temperament and the correlations with specific intellectual abilities.

Therein is the decision…do I use my time and this space to relate the basics as I see them or to seek out and find existing and forthcoming research that address intelligence and personality? I can’t see a $ sign on either road and so the choice comes down to what motivates me the most…being another voice that guides others in a similar quest or a trailblazer of sorts who helps hack through the bushes and possibly discover something of value to myself and possibly others.

With machete in hand I turn and take a mighty swing…