What makes you intelligent?

[Codelyy 1,289]

Can I respond to this? xD 14 year old me is basically a different person to 21 year old me.

I think it's hard to answer "my own question" cause there are different forms of intelligence, plus being knowledgeable about a subject doesn't exactly make you intelligent automatically. Intelligence is based on a lot of different things which while can include knowledge, includes stuff like maturity, common sense, creativity, etc

I remember writing this back when I was kinda obsessed with the idea of seeming intelligent. I used to think becoming a programmer was a good way to make myself seem intelligent but even though I'm a full-time games programmer now, I learnt that it really doesn't.

[Splashee 28,593]

I can count backwards from 100 to 1, without thinking. I cannot say the alphabet backwards though. But that still makes me intelligent 

[Narcissus 356]

Being better versed in one subject over another doesn't equate to higher intelligence. It's just a more expansive knowledge in one area. Intelligence should be measured in how well someone processes knowledge overall rather than how good they are at any one thing. Savants can be geniuses at one thing and nothing else but that doesn't necessarily gain them recognition as particularly intelligent. Intelligence, knowledge and skill are different matters altogether. 

[Clawdeen 20,193]

Bold of you to assume I'm smart

[Raskolnikov 1,716]

Intelligence is about dryly memorising and parroting outdated textbooks and following instructions unquestioningly and the more parroting and obeying you do the more intelligentsier you are. 

[Longhaul 8,039]

I've known people that have great knowledge about certain things and yet they were still dumb as a bowl of rocks.

[Iforgotmybrain 6,943]

I'd say my brain, but, well... you know.

[ExplosionMare 21,255]

Being able to form my own opinions and not care about "majority rules" in ever scenario.