Intelligence Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/intelligence/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 08 Jun 2019 15:10:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Intelligence Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/intelligence/ 32 32 Remembering Luis Machado https://mind-at-work.com/remembering-luis-machado/ Sat, 08 Jun 2019 15:10:54 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3367 Simon Bolivar University Luis Alberto Machado (1932-2016) was a lawyer who served in various governmental capacities in Venezuela. He is best remembered for his conviction that intelligence is not innate but instead acquired and thus can be taught. From ancient times until the twentieth century the opposite belief was accepted without question, and though Machado was [...]

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]]> Learning from Our Mistakes https://mind-at-work.com/learning-mistakes/ Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:36:06 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=760 Albert Einstein famously defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” By this measure, when an approach proves unsuccessful, the “sane “ (intelligent) response is to try another. Why, then, do so many people do the same foolish things over and over?  For example . . . Mothers [...]

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