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Successful intelligence is defined as one’s ability to set and accomplish personally meaningful goals in one’s life, given one’s cultural context. A successfully intelligent person accomplishes these goals by figuring out his or her strengths and weaknesses, and then by capitalizing on the strengths and correcting or compensating for the ...
Successful intelligence is most effective when it balances all three of its analytical, creative, and practical aspects. It is more important to know when and how to use these aspects of...
This article presents a theory of successful intelligence. The opening addresses some general issues of problems with conventional thinking about intelligence. The rest of the article is divided into 4 main sections.
The Definition of Successful Intelligence. Intelligence is defined in terms of the ability to achieve success in life in terms of one's personal standards, within one's sociocultural context.
Successful intelligence involves a broader range of abilities than is typically measured by tests of intellectual and academic skills. Most of these tests measure primarily or exclusively memory and analytical abilities.
Abstract. Two symposia on the nature of intelligence each revealed as many definitions of intelligence as there were theorists to define the term. In contrast, Gottfredson (1997) proposed a definition and recruited 52 theorists of intelligence to sign on to it.
In this chapter, I describe the theory of successful intelligence. The history of the theory presented here has been documented, to some extent, in two earlier theoretical articles in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences and one in the Review of General Psychology.