Csak szenvedélyesen kíváncsi | Katalin Kovács PhD. | TEDxUdvarhely

~ „Nem elég intelligensnek lenni, annak is kell látszani" – dr. Kovács Katalin a Mensa HungarIQa Egyesület elnöke megmutatta, hogy a humorérzék és az intelligencia igenis összefügg.
Katalin többek között arról mesélt nekünk, hogy már gyermekként is kicsit kívülállónak, „más"-nak érezte magát. Majd amikor 25 éves korában belépett a Mensa egyesületbe, úgy érezte, hazaérkezett. Az intelligenciát két nagyobb „összetevő" mentén határozta meg: a kíváncsiság és a változásokhoz való alkalmazkodás képessége. A környezet megismerésének igénye, az új ötletekre való nyitottság, a status quo megkérdőjelezése, illetve az újszerű helyzetek megoldása, amelyekben nem támaszkodhatunk a korábban szerzett tudásra és készségekre.
Mindez közös azokban, akik nemcsak intelligensek, de ezt a tulajdonságukat használják is a világ jobbá tétele érdekében.
~ ”It's not enough to be an intelligent person, you should also look like one” – Kovács Katalin PhD, the president of the Mensa HungarIQa Association showed us that intelligence and a sense of humour are very much related.
Among other things, Katalin told us that even as a child she felt different, like an outsider. And when at 25 she joined the Mensa association, she finally returned home. She defined intelligence based on two components: curiosity and the ability to adapt to changes. The need of knowing our environment, the openness to new ideas, question the status quo, as well as resolving new situations where we can't rely on our existing knowledge and skills.
All this is common is those people that are not only intelligent but use this intelligence to make the world a better place.

Jurist, economist, healthcare manager. Currently works in the IT sector as a business analyst, and she is the president of the Mensa HungarIQa Association.
Mensa is an international association, founded in 1946 in England. It has almost 140000 members worldwide. It’s not committed to any ideology, philosophy, political belief or religion, and it doesn’t force any common opinion on its members - the only condition for membership is having an IQ level that only 2 % of the people have.
But what does it mean in everyday life to be “officially” intelligent? How can a high IQ level help you or restrict you? How are adaptability, openness to new ideas and reaction to changes related? Is it viable, and does it have a preserving force if we build a community based on only one characteristic: that we are more intelligent than 98 % of the population?
And how can you manage an organization with 4500 members, where it is very common that 2 members have three different opinions on the same topic? This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx