Hey everyone and welcome to the Psychology Podcast.

I'm excited to introduce this new series in the show called The Human Potential Lab.

In this series we're going to answer your burning questions about psychology and human

potential.

And now I get to nerd out and show my enthusiasm for science and psychology to you all and

really hopefully unravel a lot of the mysteries that we all have about what in the world is

going on with humans.

We're going to start off today with a question of what is intelligence, which is a topic

that has interested me for a very long time.

Ever since I was a kid, I've wondered what does it mean to be smart?

Does it simply mean high IQ?

Are there other ways of being intelligent?

Do multiple intelligences exist?

What does it mean to be generally intelligent?

As a kid, I was placed into special education due to an auditory learning disability,

which I eventually outgrow.

In special ed, I would look around and see greater potential among all my friends

than other people gave them credit for.

This ignited my passion for understanding intelligence,

which carried me through to college where I started to scientifically study this fascinating topic

and I've been studying this topic ever since.

In today's episode, I'm going to focus just on the facts and the science and attempt to show

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