Patterns of Intelligence
Patterns of Intelligence
Jul 27
Often what we call “intelligence” is simply our ability to recognize sequences.
Sitting at my desk and watching the office traffic I notice unusual instances on a regular basis. Suppose I see a misstep In the hall and a coworker stumbles over a box. I may assume the individual is simple clumsy.
However five minuets later I notice another coworker trip over the same box. Ten minutes later, yet again another individual stumbles over the box again. What would be my opinion now? Maybe that the box should be moved. Its not that I am amazingly insightful but I simply recognized the pattern.
The old adage is true that: Once makes an instance, twice and it may be a coincidence, BUT three times and its a pattern.
We find patterns all around us:
• We recognize self-fulfilling prophesies: people who identify with stress and tragedy find fault with their employer, coworkers, and are soon dismissed.
• We see relationships: as a government eliminates a middle-class the faster that countries economy declines.
• We figure out sequences: Fibonacci numbers consist of adding together the two previous numbers to create the current one: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144 and so on.
• We discern behaviors: individuals in crowded places tend not look each other in the eye.
• We discover laws: the force of any object equals its mass times its acceleration.
• We detect flows: resources and influence move away from weakness, toward strength and opportunity.
•We discover personal inclinations: I grow irritated the more I grow fatigued and hungry.
How do we find patterns? They just seem to show up. Although having a pattern-seeking mindset may unlock sight of theses sequences. Start by noticing something that happens more than one time. Then focus thought and look for or remember other related instances.
Begin to ask yourself: What sequences do you see evident in your situation, What rhythms explain its “flow”, and What standard or common patterns apply to your issue?
