This was inspired by a girl I know:


The learning process is considered largely a matter of intelligence. There is said to be a threshold beyond which intelligence is irrelevant to learning. A single individual may increase their intelligence the extent to which may be unknown. Scientific studies to date have shown that if intelligence can be increased, it tends to be difficult if not impossible. This could be due largely in part to it being an innate as opposed to environmental trait.

Intelligence may be increased by experience and exposure to challenges. However, due to certain environmental or genetic limitations, a person may not meet a challenge with success. Wikipedia says this of failure:

In general, failure refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective. It may be viewed as the opposite of success.

It may also be difficult or impossible to ascertain whether a situation meets criteria for failure or success due to ambiguous or ill-defined definition of those criteria. Finding useful and effective criteria, or heuristics, to judge the success or failure of a situation may itself be a significant task.

The speed at which an individual learns is afforded by various factors, one of particular significance is “initiative” or interest. Another is care, which serves to motivate. A third is inquiry. By improving oneself a person can improve one’s surroundings and those in it. To improve oneself one must be willing, patient, and persistent. Each of these three traits is an improvement in and of themselves. The sum total of these contributes to an improved individual.


-Nick.

I think another attribute associated with learning is awareness. It might tie into motivation, though, because our awareness is based on what we are actively motivated to observe.

I remember a part of an IQ test that tested awareness. You had to look at a picture for certain things, but you could never find all of them, or at least I never did. But there are certainly other kinds of awareness than can be tested thus. I notice often how much more aware I am of certain things than other people. Like driving, I've never gotten in an accident, and I see people just staring off into space while I am constantly checking mirrors, speedometer, tachometer, trying to predict the other cars actions in front of me, etc.

Awarness might be the most important factor in learning. The more aware you are of things and relations that you don't normally encounter, the more you learn wherever you go. A lot of people will look for familiar things around them. I always try to look for what I've never noticed before.

This was inspired by a girl I know:


The learning process is considered largely a matter of intelligence. There is said to be a threshold beyond which intelligence is irrelevant to learning. A single individual may increase their intelligence the extent to which may be unknown. Scientific studies to date have shown that if intelligence can be increased, it tends to be difficult if not impossible. This could be due largely in part to it being an innate as opposed to environmental trait.

Intelligence may be increased by experience and exposure to challenges. However, due to certain environmental or genetic limitations, a person may not meet a challenge with success. Wikipedia says this of failure:

In general, failure refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective. It may be viewed as the opposite of success.

It may also be difficult or impossible to ascertain whether a situation meets criteria for failure or success due to ambiguous or ill-defined definition of those criteria. Finding useful and effective criteria, or heuristics, to judge the success or failure of a situation may itself be a significant task.

The speed at which an individual learns is afforded by various factors, one of particular significance is “initiative” or interest. Another is care, which serves to motivate. A third is inquiry. By improving oneself a person can improve one’s surroundings and those in it. To improve oneself one must be willing, patient, and persistent. Each of these three traits is an improvement in and of themselves. The sum total of these contributes to an improved individual.


-Nick.
Have you considered courage as significant.

Psychology plays no small part in wisdom.
One can see and grasp, but when whast is seen and grasped is not flattering or heart-warming or opens one's eyes to horror, then the mind tends to shut off, turn away or delude itself.

Need, the all-driving human-condition.
If need is powerful enough, no amount of human reason can withstand its demands.
Reason surrenders and intelligence becomes untapped potential, turning away and focusing on what is less disturbing...like making money.