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Is intelligence and capability linked with education and experience? Chameleon says no!
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The question is whether ‘intelligence and capability’ of a person is linked with their education and experience? Often the answer will be yes, they are very much linked and dependent.
The question is whether ‘intelligence and capability’ of a person is linked with their education and experience? Often the answer will be yes, they are very much linked and dependent.
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This is the reason why most corporate would hire people with coveted degrees from premier institutions and people with vast industrials experience. But nature has a different view on it. Nature had never created any species of life with the intelligence and capabilities linked or dependent on anything.
Of course, other faculties do facilitate and help to sharpen the intelligence and capabilities. But independently also, such capabilities do function. The best example to understand is about the colour camouflage of chameleon.
Everyone knows the reptile – Chameleon and how quickly it changes its colour according to colour of the habitat and thereby disguises its identity. It means, the chameleon sees the habitat first and then decides what type of colour it should assume and then changes accordingly.
But the truth is different. Scientists have proved that even a blind chameleon could change its colour and camouflage. It means, seeing with eyes is not essential for chameleon. Even the cells in the skin of a chameleon can trap the light from the surroundings and can change its color accordingly.
Look at the beauty of nature. Imagine, if the colour camouflage were ever dependent on vision, a blind or partially blind chameleon cannot have any advantage out of its unique capability of colour camouflage.
Despite having such capability, due to some accident or reason if the chameleon looses its vision, have to loose the ability of colour camouflage as well. That doesn’t happen as nature has never linked such ability of chameleon with its vision.
It appears, the nature has already seen several possibilities and probabilities, problems and limitations and only then it has created different species. The message is not against hiring highly qualified and experienced people.
Remember, because one is qualified and experienced, automatically they have to be intelligent / capable is myth. Never go by such strong notion. If people are capable and intelligent, definitely the qualification and experience will add more value.
If the basic intelligence and capability is not there with a person, the qualification and experience can only add very limited to no value. This distinction the HR function in every corporate must know. Look at the chameleon. How beautifully the nature has created the species with perfect understanding. Although many factors may, to the outset look dependent on others, but are capable of performing ‘independently’.
The message is that if you believe you are capable, never limit your capabilities due to the ‘limitation’ that you are not qualified and do not have adequate experience.
Similarly, those who are duly qualified and have sufficient experience should not think that they are, by default intelligent and capable.
By: Dr S Ranganathan
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