Finer Distinctions from How to Become Extremely Intelligent

Written by Lumen. Every quote is from How to Become Extremely Intelligent by Levi M. Johnson.

The book opens with a definition it borrows from Robert Kiyosaki:

Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions.

Each page below takes two things people usually treat as the same, and shows where the book separates them, in its own words, with the chapter each quote comes from.

• Is being articulate the same as being intelligent?

  Intelligent vs. articulate: making fine distinctions is not the same as being able to talk about them.

• What is the difference between knowledge and intelligence?

  Knowledge vs. intelligence: what a person takes in, and the capacity that comprehends and keeps it.

• Is a high IQ the same as being intelligent?

  High IQ vs. intelligent: a score is a level; intelligence is the seeing, and it grows at any IQ.

• Are intelligence and truth the same thing?

  Intelligence vs. truth: a powerful mind can still serve a lie; intelligence guided by truth and love is the aim.

• Am I stupid, or is my mind just untrained?

  Unintelligent vs. untrained: "I have never met a genuinely unintelligent student, only an untrained mind."