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Originally Posted by Keith  Hey, belated thought:
Given that the key principles are Truth, Love and Power, and the intersection of all those principles are Intelligence - wouldn't a more fitting name for the book be "Personal Development for Intelligent People"? |
You can be intelligent without being smart.
I know lots of intelligent people who spend hours of their day working in jobs just for the money, or doing university degrees without any idea of what they're doing after they get their degree.
Doesn't seem too smart to me. To me, smart is more of a holistic sense of intelligence, which is the definition Steve uses for intelligence. Most people associated intelligence as lots of knowledge or mental skills, but that's a pretty fragmented, incomplete model of intelligence (what about emotional intelligence? Social intelligence? [Insert other intelligences here that I can't think of a decent name for]?).
Consequently, most people throw around words without being able to define them consciously and intelligently. Here's a good one: love. Another good one: friendship. And another: talent. If you want a fun field experiment, go ask people to define each of those terms.
Be sure to carry around bits of paper with a link to Steve's blog, Steve's book, and some of Marcus Buckingham's work.