Inteligência Prática

What is Practical Intelligence?

To do well in any everyday endeavor, whether the endeavor pertains to school, work, or play, requires practical intelligence.

Although intelligence as conventionally defined maybe useful in everyday life, practical intelligence is indispensable. It is the ability to adapt to, shape, and select every day environments.

Practical intelligence, like most abilities can be viewed as a form of developing expertise. Individuals who have developed the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to succeed in a particular domain generally are characterized as experts.

Therefore, understanding expertise and how it develops provides a method of insight into practical intelligence.

So how do we come to characterize practical intelligence as a form of developing expertise? We begin with a distinction between viewing abilities as relatively stable attributes and viewing them as developing expertise.

Extraído de "Practical Intelligence in everyday life" Robert J. Sternberg (p1)