Intelligence

We call an excelling physicist (such as Einstein) intelligent, we call an ingenious wartime leader (such as Churchill) intelligent, we even call a great artist or musician intelligent (such as Picasso or Mozart). What makes these people intelligent? Is it the fact they have found their niche and filled it well, is it hard work and dedication or is it down to natural gifts? Maybe all three? I would argue that intelligence is relative, in a long term survival situation we would be more glad for a skilled farmer than a skilled astronomer. And say in this survival situation a baby called Albert Einstein is born. Albert has no exposure to mathematical education, but he does learn the best way to rotate crops and keep the land arable, he breeds the best cattle and he brings in the largest harvest. In the survival society Albert is regarded with more reverence than in our society today, with his physical progress. 

Would Albert of the survival society, in 200 years when everything is back to normal, be remembered as the intelligence he will be remembered for today? 

So what does make intelligence? Well paraphrasing all the theories that, in my opinion, explain it best; intelligence is the ability to think. Think about anything, some people are better at thinking about football and some about atoms. To divide them and measure their intelligence is surely madness.