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What really is intellect?

 Snapp Secret... I always score high on intelligence quotient tests, and I feel they are a terrible test of intelligence.  For those of you who have never done an IQ test let me tell you a bit about them. They are tests to determine if you can solve a missing piece of a pattern and determine a correct word. Which is a wonderful test if you want to know if a child will fall in line and do data well.  But I argue, intelligence is the ability to create something new. Unfortunately this isn't something any formed test can truly verify you have the ability to do. No, the real test is how time remembers you. Will you be remembered as the person who cured cancer? Will you be remembered as the person who saved the aquifers? Those people are the true genius' of our time.  I have taught gifted children, as judged by iq tests, and there is a quality many of them possess. An inability to move on from failure. When they receive their first F they give up on a class. When they are...

Hurry up and have patience

 Snapp secret.... I'm not as mature as my wrinkles. My wrinkles tell time, and they show that I smile a lot, raise my eyebrows in excitement a lot, and am confused more often than I'd like to admit. I am getting old. According to my obgyn when I am pregnant I will be a geriatric pregnant person. And I agree, after all, my ovarian reserves are the same as someone in their mid forties.  I should be very mature at this point. Very wise. Very patient. And probably some more words I can't think of right now. But instead I'm sitting here sewing little pumpkins praying to God to make me patient right this second. He needs to hurry up and make me patient right now, because I am not patient enough to wait for this quality and skill to mature. I'm not patient enough to wait on patience. My lack of patience is driving my stress hormones through the roof. These little pumpkins I'm sewing take so long. Making babies takes so long. Paying off a mortgage takes so long. And at ...