Creativity should be used as the only true measure of intelligence.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
This topic raises the controversial issue of whether intelligence should be measured by creativity. Indisputably, most intelligent people in the century we live in are known for their innovation, in other words, creating a technology, an economic or political strategy and so on. However, other than their creativity they all similar characteristics that guided them to success.
First of all, it is common sense that not only creativity can help someone to be at the top of what they are doing. For example, yes Steve Jobs thought of a technology that nobody thought of. His ideas were so unrealistic at that time that nobody would believe in him until he showed them he turned his ideas to a functioning technology. Until then he had to live and work in a garage and invest all what he had in his ideas. Here what we first consider of what has made him one of today’s most intelligent people is his creativity. Nobody could have come up with the same ideas that he did back then and we might not have had phones, computers we use today if it was not because of his creativity. However, this is not all. He was different from the others, maybe even some people with his imagination, in other personalities, too. Those characteristic or skills of his made him what he is today. First of all, he believed in himself when nobody else did. So his was self-confident. He did not give up when he could not find the investor he needed to complete his research. Instead he used what he had. Other than that, once he proved that his ideas can be turned into a functioning machine he stick with it instead of selling it for profit. He introduced every development with this machine himself. He was very good at public speaking and convincing people that his version of this technology was better than his competitors. Until the last of day of his life he did not stop improving the idea that he had in his garage. So, yes he was being intelligent when he was able to create a new technology but it was even more intelligent when he did not give up and keep improving his ideas. This took him courage, hard work, the willing to make a difference in people’s live, benefiting from other people’s intelligence. It is ironic that the phone that people was first used was not Steve Jobs’ Apple. Nokia, an European company invented and marketed the most used cell-phone not very long ago. It was their idea that a phone can be carried. They were being the most creative when such technology is being used. However, they failed to stay competitive when a better version was invested by Steve Jobs. This version had creativity like Nokia did. However, Steve Jobs was being the more intelligent when he did not stop working on his creativity.
