Trying to scratch an itch....Intelligence, ego, and learning...

This has been one of those kind of itches that comes and goes, and nags at you, then goes away again, only to return once more...
It's one that I have given the odd scratch , occasionally satisfying it.... but not really....

The itch I'm talking about?
The apparent inability for people to learn... and why this is so. Why do some people learn perfectly well from some people, but not from others, for example?

Leaving aside IQ discussions as such (it is what it is in this post, for arguments sake,) it is still glaringly obvious that the ability to learn things is not necessarily connected to IQ level.
( it is also very connected at the same time - but in context of this post, is not so important).

This is about comparative intelligence levels and the disconnect can that can occur because of it when insecurity comes into play.

For example, I have known many people who have worked for me over the years that were considerably lower on the IQ scale. (And many considerably higher than myself as well, thank god!)
TIP: Always find cleverer people than yourself to work for you- you can't go wrong! lol.

I digress.

Some of these 'lower IQ' people were way more open to learning from me, than others were.
Personality clashes play apart for sure... but was that just an expression of something running deeper ....?
Was the expression the software and not the hard drive, as it were?

This is where that itch started, I think....

This is what I'm addressing here. This ability to learn, and not levels of intelligence...

Intelligence can be gauged in several ways...IQ testing being the most objective tool that we have. (to date).

The ability to recognize people who are more intelligent than yourself- by comparison - is not that difficult depending on the degree.
I.E The larger the difference between IQ's, the easier it is to recognize.

Does insecurity (ego) prevent those of lesser intelligence, accept that those of a higher level of intelligence having something valid, or extra, to offer?

If you are insecure, does your ego actually prevent you from seeing the higher intelligence in another?
Is it perceived as a threat rather than a potential tool to be used to their own advantage?

Those who do recognize a higher intelligence in others - those without this defensive mechanism engaging, can, or will to - try take advantage of the situation.

One of the ways of taking advantage is by learning as much as possible from those of a higher intelligence.

If the defensive ego mechanism is at work, then learning from those of a higher intelligence becomes almost impossible.
The defensive nature of the ego in the 'lesser' of the intelligent, prevents the passing of informtion from one to the other.
They literally 'put up the defenses' and in doing so prevent an efficient passing across of 'knowledge'.

Conversely the 'lesser intelligent ' - who are operating without the fragile ego at play, are able recognize that those of a higher intelligence can 'see' more than they themselves presently can.
(that's why they are more intelligent. durr).

By learning from them, it gives them the opportunity to possibly 'see' what those of higher intelligence also 'see', and thus becoming more knowledgeable themselves.

Here endeth my scratching....my itch has gone..for now.