Intelligence

In 1955 I was four years old and we lived on Pershing Avenue, just around the corner from the Jefferson Memorial at the Northern Edge of Forest Park in St. Louis. The Mississippi River was 20 minutes East of there. In 1955-1956 I attended Preschool at Hamilton Elementary School and in 1956-1957 I attended Kindergarten there. That summer was the last I saw of the wonderful streetcars that ran up and down the middle of Pershing Avenue. In those days it was safe enough to walk to school.

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We moved out to the suburbs (16 miles) where the Missouri river curved South-East towards the Mississippi. In Forissant, Missouri, I tried to enter first grade in the fall of 1957, but they refused to let me attend because I would not be six years old until September 21st. So I spent that year reading all the books my editor father had and checking out science fiction books from the Florissant Valley library and sometimes from the city library downtown. Also rode my bicycle on the bottom roads and spent lots of time down by the Missouri river.

In 1958 I started first grade at Lusher Elementary school, but they had nothing to teach me. The teacher said I was distracting so I was not allowed to attend class and spent that year down the hall in the Special Education room/large closet… reading mostly science fiction.

On one of the rare days when I was allowed to attend class, I took the Stanford-Binet IQ test in 1958. When I got the score sheet, it was a graph with a set of instruction at the top, but mine had no score on it. The teacher found the score marking above the score sheet in the instructions. Using a ruler, she guess-timated my IQ to be 167. (The score sheet only went up to 160.) I read all the science fiction they had in the school library and during those nine months I read more than 440 books. (They had us write the books on the bulletin board as we read them.)

I suspect that reading for five years before starting first grade may have raised my score!

That summer, I took a speed-reading course at Washington University. According to them, by the end of the six week course, I could read 13 thousand words per minute with 90% comprehension. But I found that tedious, and probably read substantially slower most of the time.

Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (born May 17, 1942), who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician, a singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments. He often incorporates elements of world music into his works and has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his more than 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, and the South Pacific.

In the fall of 1959, they skipped me through second grade and put me in third grade. This was fine with me, I was now back in the proper grade. I finished elementary school at Lusher and then attended Hazelwood Junior High School. There, in 8th grade, I took an exam and was provided with a full tuition scholarship to attend St. Louis Country Day School, down in Ladue. It was a great college prep school, but I did not like the coats and ties which were required. I did not fit in well there, but attended from 1966-1969 and graduated in 1969. I began attending Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio that fall. I turned 18 during my first month on campus. And I kept reading…

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Taj Mahal Fillmore West 27-29 November 1969 San Francisco, CA
This is what Taj looked like two months after I first met him.

My most thrilling moment in that first term was meeting Taj Mahal on the lawn. I cound not afford to see the show and was fooling around on the lawn with my guitar, near the administration building where the concert was to trake place. While they hauled stuff in from the tour bus, Taj walked over, introduced himself, sat down on the lawn and gave me a free concert! By the time he finished there was a large circle of people around us and he gave back my acoustic guitar and went in to do the show I could not afford to see. I was still 17 years old and Taj Mahal was 27.

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“There’s a correlation between high emotional intelligence and high IQ in psychological assessments,” Christine Scott-Hudson, licensed psychotherapist and owner of Create Your Life Studio, tells Bustle. “We know that the higher a person scores in traits of empathy, the higher the person will score in traits of effective verbal comprehension.”

“In other words, empathy, which is part of emotional intelligence, and comprehension, which is part of cognitive intelligence, is directly linked. So if you lead with your heart, Scott-Hudson says, there’s a good chance that you also lead with your mind.”

Intelligent people…

What are some scientifically proven facts about intelligent people?

Staying up late is a sign of high intelligence: due to increased brain activity at night.

Being funny and a high sense of humor is a sign of high intelligence.

More than half of the population in the world have just average intelligence.

Intelligent people always want to know more about the world.

Intellectuals go to sleep late and get up late.

Highly intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person.

Talking to yourself is the sign of high intelligence.

They underestimate themselves more than ignorant people.

They are Open-Minded.

They are less likely to keep traditional values.

Grades and Age don’t determine Intelligence.

Worrying too much is associated with high intelligence.

Intelligent People like to avoid conflict. They notice everything but tend to say nothing.

They are very good liars as it requires many complex calculations to cover up lies.

Highly intelligent people are socially awkward.

Highly intelligent people are more faithful than others.

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