Presence is the Environment; Intelligence and Creativity are the Content
If you could either have high intelligence paired with low creativity or low intelligence with high creativity, which would you pick? And why?
I couldn't decide right away, but I would choose creativity. With just intelligence you can accomplish a lot, but I believe it's easier to accomplish greatness with creativity because things innovation, uniqueness, and originality are often key to the ideas that make the biggest difference and stand out.
Also, I think high intelligence is more common than high creativity, I don't have any stats to back this up, and I'm not even sure if you can test for creativity... perhaps you could test someone's divergent thinking.
I don't want you to think about intelligence and creativity. I want you to think about presence.
So you ask me, as I know you will, why am I writing to this thread? Why don't I just start one of my own?
And that is because intelligence, creativity and presence are related.
And the relationship is simple -
Intelligence and creativity are perceived through the rear vision mirror
And presence is perceived through the windscreen.
And the windscreen is right in front of you, right now. And presence is rushing at you through the windscreen, but you don't see it.
Please look through the windscreen; I am just on the other side.
And when you post, you are present; and when you don't post you are absent.
Now this is just the bare bones of presence. And I want you to put flesh on presence. I want you to think about presence. I want you to make connections to presence.
But most of all I desire your presence; and I want you to desire mine.
And just as your presence is required, so is your presence of mind.