{"id":13258,"date":"2020-10-01T00:24:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T06:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=13258"},"modified":"2020-10-01T00:26:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T06:26:20","slug":"traits-of-highly-intelligent-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/traits-of-highly-intelligent-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Traits of Highly Intelligent People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In an article written last year by Shanna Lebowitz for Business\u00a0Insider<\/a>\u00a0she discussed 8 traits that research has shown that highly intelligent people tend to have in common:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. They\u2019re highly adaptable<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They learn to work around problems and find solutions when complications arise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. They understand how much they don\u2019t know<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They aren\u2019t afraid to admit they don\u2019t know something and they aren\u2019t afraid to dig in and learn about things. They understand that being smart isn\u2019t about how much someone knows, its about being capable of learning new things and making the effort to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. They have insatiable curiosity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They love to learn the how and why and what about things. They are always looking to learn more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. They\u2019re open-minded<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They love hearing new ideas and they don\u2019t see new information as a threat to their existing intelligence, rather they see it as an opportunity to expand their knowledge. That being said they are also careful to really know their facts before making judgment calls on which new information to accept as valid and which to dismiss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. They like their own company<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are comfortable in their own skin and they tend to be comfortable spending time with their own thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. They have high\u00a0self-control<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are goal oriented. They are willing to work for their reward. They are able to put off what they want today in order to gain something more important later on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. They\u2019re really funny<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have a good sense of humor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. They\u2019re sensitive to other people\u2019s experiences<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They care about other people emotions and feelings and have an awareness of other\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given those are traits shared by most truly intelligent people, it stands to reason that if one desires becoming highly intelligent then developing those traits is a great way to achieve that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201cWhat Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business & Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an article written last year by Shanna Lebowitz for Business\u00a0Insider\u00a0she discussed 8 traits that research has shown that highly intelligent people tend to have in common: 1. They\u2019re highly adaptable They learn to work around problems and find solutions when complications arise. 2. They understand how much they don\u2019t know They aren\u2019t afraid to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[632,395,12952,2568,12943,9170,2063,5206,12940,12941,13,6591,76,1295,430,12946,439,9149,2045,732,713,630,2070,1096,3567,639,4751,2836,2213,509,149,12942,12950,12944,250,45],"class_list":["post-13258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-accomplishment","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-big-ideas","tag-capable","tag-comfortable-in-their-own-skin","tag-delayed-gratification","tag-development","tag-dig-in","tag-emotional-intelligence","tag-empathetic","tag-funny","tag-goal-oriented","tag-goals","tag-hard-work","tag-ideas","tag-incubataor","tag-inspire","tag-instant-gratification","tag-intelligence","tag-intelligent","tag-mental","tag-motivate","tag-physical","tag-sacrifice","tag-sales","tag-self-control","tag-sense-of-humor","tag-sensitive","tag-smart","tag-spiritual","tag-success","tag-sympathetic","tag-tech-commercialization","tag-willing-to-learn","tag-work","tag-work-ethic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13261,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13258\/revisions\/13261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}