Cultivate intelligence for integral growth

Cultivate intelligence for integral growth, develop skills for knowledge, which allows solving problems in different areas, by applying different methods as part of everyday life, David Brooks said: "Crystallized intelligence is the ability to use experience, knowledge and the products of lifelong education that have been stored in long-term memory. It is the ability to make analogies and comparisons about things you have studied before. Crystallized intelligence accumulates over the years and leads ultimately to understanding and wisdom."

David Brooks focuses on crystallized intelligence as offline reading in a deep and exasperating way to learn intentionally, not a simple resolution of the text.

But at the same time, the fluid intelligence can referred to a comfortable experience, the online life that most of the students enjoy, including myself, for the promptly use.

In contrast, fluid intelligence can refer to a very comfortable experience, such as online life enjoyed by most students, for the convenience of solving our doubts quickly, also the parallel world of social networks; All these previous ones make us a carefree way of research and very light development to learn, as David brooks said, "Fluid intelligence is a set of skills that exist in the moment. It’s the ability to perceive situations and navigate to solutions in novel situations, independent of long experience. "

Accordingly, Sandra McGuire made a difference between studying and learning, likewise gives us an incredible and effective method called "Blooms Taxonomy"  to develop learning skills, Sandra McGuire take the case of first year dentistry students who describe the difference: "Studying is focusing on the 'what’s,' but learning is focusing on the 'how’s,' 'whys,' and 'what ‘if’s ... even if i forgot the ‘What’s’ i can re-create them.”

Explain, apply, are one of the steps for the Blooms Taxonomy that lead us to intensify our way of thinking and to develop our intelligence, possibly from fluid to crystallized, Sandra McGuire and David Brooks have common points about how to learn and how to do it, have a successful outcome unlike comfort, speed, fun and ease. Sandra McGuire said: "Previewing and reviewing are powerful and efficient ways to support learning.”

The human being will never stop learning until the day of death, tools such as effort and dedication facilitate the way.