I don’t know who’s truly “intelligent.”

One of my friends and readers recently replied to a story from a story earlier this year where I was musing about Trump’s intelligence.

This topic keeps coming up in my conversations with my son. He’s in college now. He started studying finance but recently added computer science and often talks about how STEM degrees are more useful and meaningful than business ones. These chats often flow into the discussion of what constitutes true intelligence. We discuss the likes of Musk and other prominent figures, like in the world of politics, for example. Is Putin intelligent? Is Trump? Is Biden? Is Draymond Green of the Warriors? When I hear the guy’s podcasts, I always think how emotionally intelligent he is. And then you watch him play dirty, again and again, sabotaging his reputation and his entire team’s fortune.

This debate is always inconclusive.

Someone with a Ph.D. in astrophysics is clearly intelligent — objectively intelligent. Or put it this way — you can’t call that person “dumb.”

But then you can have a scientist who lacks social skills and would never be able to apply his knowledge to some practical use without being managed by someone who’s business savvy and can organize a team that can achieve seemingly impossible goals. So is that business person more intelligent than the scientist?

And what about being smart in your personal life? If you’re ultra-successful — and let’s assume it’s because of your intelligence and hard work and…