Who is Really Intelligent || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Think of a college campus, a college you gain admission to after passing through the most rigorous kind of entrance test.

00:08Obviously, the students there will be high on intellect.

00:12The average IQ of that campus will probably be 20, 30, 40% higher than the average IQ of general population.

00:21And yet see who comes there to hire, to recruit.

00:25Some company selling fizzy drinks.

00:28The fellow has an IQ of 160 and he's extremely happy getting a job offer from an organization that sells sports shoes.

00:37That's the intellect for you, slave of the ego.

00:40One of the problems with our culture, the global culture, is that it respects the intellect too much.

00:48Somebody can come up with great arguments, thoughts, theories.

00:52We say, wow, he's so intelligent.

00:54No, he's not intelligent.

00:56Intelligence is freedom, whereas the intellect has no freedom.