单选题
Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some
very prevalent myths. At the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is
measured by your ability to solve complex problems; to read, write and compute
at certain levels; and to resolve abstract equations quickly. This vision of
intelligence asserts formal education and bookish excellence as the true
measures of self-fulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice
that has brought with it some discouraging results. We have come to believe that
someone who has more educational merit badges, who is very good at some form of
school discipline is "intelligent". Yet mental hospitals are filled with
patients who have all of the properly lettered certificates. A truer indicator
of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present
moment of every day. If you are happy, if you live each moment
for everything it's worth, then you are an intelligent person. Problem solving
is a useful help to your happiness, but if you know that given your in- ability
to resolve a particular concern you can still choose happiness for yourself, or
at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness, then you are intelligent. You are
intelligent because you have the ultimate weapon against the big N. B. D.
-Nervous Break Down. "Intelligent" people do not have N.B.D..
It's because they are in charge of themselves. They know how to choose happiness
over depression, because they know how to deal with the problems of their
lives. You can begin to think of yourself as truly intelligent
on the basis of how you choose to feel in the face of trying circumstances. The
life struggles are pretty much the same for each of us. Everyone who is involved
with other human beings in any social context has similar difficulties.
Disagreements, conflicts and compromises are a part of what it means to be
human. Similarly, money, growing old, sickness, deaths, natural disasters and
accidents are all events, which present problems to virtually all human beings.
But some people are able to make it, to avoid immobilizing depression and
unhappiness despite such occurrences, while others collapse or have an N.B.D..
Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don't measure happiness by
an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also,
the most rare.
单选题
According to the author, the conventional notion of intelligence
measured in terms of one's ability to read, write and compute