The Daily Question is an almost daily quick question to keep in mind and consider during the day. When you are presented a question of deep importance, you use your brain in a different way, a more critical way. When we develop critical thinking we become a more independent, knowledgeable, and diverse person. To start to develop some of these skills, read the Daily Question and keep them in mind.

Intelligence Quotient, or IQ is how we define much of a persons intelligence. Groups such as Mensa covet these people and hold them above the rest. I do not want to say that IQ goes about grading your mental intelligence wrongly, but maybe there is a different, better way. A standard IQ test test your ability to reason and work your way through puzzles, however some of these puzzles I believe are not suited for the job. I have found pieces of mathematical sequence in many IQ test, and some other knowledge depending tactics. To state this, we must know the difference between knowledge and intelligence, Knowledge is information you have acquired, such as Pythagorean Theorem, Fibonacci number, or even simple things like water boils when heated. Intelligence is your ability to reason, plan and think abstractly. A person with high intelligence may not have knowledge because of his surroundings, but a person with knowledge is most often intelligent. So how do you test your intelligence if not with any form of surrounding influence. Or in other words, a fair test between a tribesman in Dafur, and a grad student at Cambridge?

The Daily Question is an almost daily quick question to keep in mind and consider during the day. When you are presented a question of deep importance, you use your brain in a different way, a more critical way. When we develop critical thinking we become a more independent, knowledgeable, and diverse person. To start to develop some of these skills, read the Daily Question and keep them in mind.

Do you remember your junior high days? There was always that one kid who was amazingly creative, always singing, dancing, painting, whatever. Well what made him so creative? Was it is early up bringing, maybe to a degree, current situations, or maybe just genetics? All three of these could be a valid answer, but is there something more? Some people say creativity like most other traits is something you develop over time. As skills progress so does your ability to see images in new shapes and forms. Sometimes we say creativity is purely genetics, if someone in your family was creative chances are someone else will be too. Sometimes this is all right, there is a balance in life between your born talents and your developed ones, but could there be something more? Maybe the realization of having talents sparks interest, which you then pursue, sometimes people don’t become creative until very late in life. This is a question I cannot say I know any plausible answers, but that is why we leave the questions open for response and allow you to give your own opinion on how creativity develops.

The Daily Question is an almost daily quick question to keep in mind and consider during the day. When you are presented a question of deep importance, you use your brain in a different way, a more critical way. When we develop critical thinking we become a more independent, knowledgeable, and diverse person. To start to develop some of these skills, read the Daily Question and keep them in mind.

Symbols, they are the fundamentals of communication. They are represented by our numbers, alphabet, furniture, technology, and every single possible thing around you. I define a symbol as the minds interpretation of an object. That being said, everything we sense is in a form of observing symbols. For this question, I want to ask are we too obsessed with the basic symbols, most notably: Language.

Language, there is no true meaning to a word. There is only a different way of conveying these words to describe something. English is no more just than Amharic, but they are both very different. Both tell the same story, but get there different ways. In all forms of conveyance we place such a value on the symbol. If disregard you with a swear word you will take offense. Why? Because of the value our conscious places on meaning of an artificial word. Because of some topics being discussed later, the mind is almost forced to define the surroundings, and by doing so places a concrete definition on everything. These definitions are the derivative of previous influence and instruction. However, what if these are not right, how can we be sure the sky is really blue. Blue is nothing more than a collection of sounds our ears intercept and transmit to the brain. Blue, as in the word on paper is nothing more than the bending of light to create an image perceived by the eye which sends this to the brain. Blue as no true meaning other than the meaning we give it, so do we rely on this meaning to much in a life?

The Daily Question is an almost daily quick question to keep in mind and consider during the day. When you are presented a question of deep importance, you use your brain in a different way, a more critical way. When we develop critical thinking we become a more independent, knowledgeable, and diverse person. To start to develop some of these skills, read the Daily Question and keep them in mind.

Today’s question is themed on Christmas, the nearing holiday filled with gifts, wrapping paper, crowded shopping malls, and the ever present sound of christmas music. Like most people I enjoy the sounds of Jingle Bells, White Christmas, and other popular songs that fill the airways, but this pleasure is short lived. So to avoid this problem and find new christmas music, I tune to Pandora Radio and find some unknown holiday cheer. While listening to the array of unheard musical assembles, I wondered what makes this Christmas music? Or, what makes a classical performance of Bach not considered Christmas music, while there are thousands of very similar sounding pieces played in excess during the holiday. There are solo guitar songs, vocals, piano, and other forms of creating music that all sounds similar, but some are only played this time of year. The popular classics like Jingle Bells may be a different story, but think about the songs without instance recognition to the holidays.

So today’s daily question is: What make Christmas Music, Christmas Music?

What makes human beings different from one another? Appearance is a popular answer, maybe even their opinions or their tastes. However, the most viable to an onlooking conscious is: the way we act - the way we interact with our surroundings, including people and other organisms. Of course, we must realize that the way we act is derivative of the way we think. The way we think is derivative of the influences we were taught in our youth along with the influences throughout the present and even stretching into the future.

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