Distilled down to its barest essence, intelligence can best be described with this inordinately simple algorithm: Smart people think before they speak, while stupid people speak before they think. That’s it! That’s all there is to it! That’s our “Eureka!” moment for today. This, Reader, is the true, unabridged definition of intelligence. The highly conceptualized and theorized idea of intelligence debated contentiously by mile-long panels of multi-degreed psychologists and neurologists is really no more complicated than the aforementioned shockingly elementary truism. Smart people seldom, if ever, get themselves into trouble with their mouths, whereas stupid people unfailingly do; they just can’t seem to help themselves! Diarrhea of the vocal cords is the canary-in-the-coalmine predictor and stand-alone hallmark which unfailingly defines a dearth of basic intelligence. Smartness profiling is no more complex than recognizing this reality.
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