Nature or Nurture
As a doctor, I have always been curious about what makes us intelligent and most importantly what or who is responsible for one’s mental abilities. There are two ground theories, the first one dictates that intelligence is inherited or in other words it runs in your genes. The second one considers intelligent to be something that can be nurtured - the environment that surrounds you, your education, family and friends, matter the most. I have seen a couple of documentaries on the subject but neither one of them was able to give a single answer to my question. So I’ve started reading not just academic articles and books but also different stories from across the world. Stories that reveal the lives of different people, who have one thing in common, they are highly intelligent.
