Consecutive Aptitudes Required

There are many ways to measure intelligence, some more effective than others. Perhaps an informal but instructive technique, for increasing one's intelligence rather than just measuring it,  would be for one to cultivate one's capacity for alertness or watchfulness.

The watchful person is very sensitive to what is going on around him right now. Each of us enjoy  this natural capacity if we do not distort it with psychological, fogging agents. Also, by coming to love the truth and live in the truth, the individual can rely on what his instincts--the constructive urges for sure--are urging him to avoid or do; he ordinarily will want to heed and follow his  hunches. What reality is providing him can be sensibly reacted to by him through applying his judgment and experience, and through his knack for crafting quick but accurate inferences on scant information and a few environmental inputs. He is thus able quickly and productively to maximize how things are unfolding to his benefit. By what he hears, sees and and senses, he will turn situations to his advantage, and for the well-being of the community at large.

He lives in the moment always. His connection to natural and artificial as it appears and is playing out right here, right now is a one-to-one correspondence. He is realistic and alert; not allowing noisy distractions, group think, personal values, his wishful preferences, or his idealistic worldview to impose an alien, ill-conceived construct upon bare reality. He will not allow his intellectuality to partially or utterly  color his watchful intake of what is going on inside and outside at this moment.

Then and only then, as an individuator, he will bring in his faculty of critical thinking to assess and examine the meaning of what is occurring and self-assess his response to such input. He will compare, contrast and generalize what he has learned and encountered.

Then his sense of wonder about the fascinating beauty life and the universe will allow him to profit from this watchful, continuous monitoring of reality as it is happening. He will extrapolate from his realistic, epistemological foundation to decide how to live and how to proceed. But constantly and forever does he exert himself to be in touch with goings-on in this world and the next world, receiving their stimulus and messages as they are, with the interpretive overlay added only afterwards, and then continually revised as required.