Re: [Harp-L] Re: Transparency - de Bono quote

["Doug" <mr4chnt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Regarding the "intelligence trap" as described below:  For me someone who "needs to be seen to be ‘right’ and 'clever' " seems to me as not "highly inteligent", but rather as of average intelligence and lower than average self esteem.

Before anyone takes me on for having this opinion, you should know that I speak from personal experience!  :-)

Doug H
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: JohnnieHarp 
  To: harp-l 
  Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 5:01 PM
  Subject: [Harp-L] Re: Transparency


  >Terrific post by JR Ross
  >You're likely correct, JR. I probably could rephrase these things better...

  As a general observation, I suspect that most posters here tend to be
  competitive people with strong wills and opions.

  For us, it can be easy to get caught in what De Bono termed the
  "Intelligence Trap" where one becomes more focused on defending one's
  beliefs / position than on circling around issues and considering them
  from various perspectives; switching viewpointts in the process.

  " A highly intelligent person usually grows up with a sense of that
  intellectual superiority and needs to be seen to be ‘right’ and
  ‘clever’. Such a person is less willing to risk creative and
  constructive ideas, because such ideas may take a time to show their
  worth or to get accepted. Highly intelligent people are often
  attracted to the quick pay-off of negativity. If you attack someone
  else’s ideas or thinking, there can be an immediate achievement
  together with a useful sense of superiority. In intellectual terms
  attack is also cheap and easy because the attacker can always choose
  the frame of reference."



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