ANXIETY AND INTELLIGENCE
We all have varying degrees of intelligence. But the extent to which we can use our intelligence depends very much on another factor, the integration of our personality, the way in which the different aspects of our mind work as a unity.
Those of us of less intelligence and less well-integrated minds find many ordinary everyday tasks quite difficult, while other more gifted people do these things naturally and easily without giving the matter any particular thought. The less gifted among us are therefore under a constant stress which others are not. As a result they remain tense, and at the same time are usually unable to see the cause of their tension.
Of course, this situation is relative. A highly intelligent person who is doing a job requiring exceptionally high intelligence is relatively in the position of being a dullard, and he experiences the same tensions as a dull person does in a less exacting job. Similarly, the intellectually backward individual may learn to live a useful and happy life as long as he can work and live in an environment which is not too demanding for him.
A disparity of intelligence between husband and wife may be a constant source of tension, especially when the wife is the more gifted one. Unless she is a very perceptive woman this disparity will lead her into a dominant role in the household which is likely to clash with her husband’s masculinity and so produce further tension.
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