TEXT C Taking charge of yourself
involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths. At the top of the list is
the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve complex
problems; to read, write and compute at certain levels; and to resolve abstract
equations quickly. This vision of intelligence asserts formal education and
bookish excellence as the true measures of self-fulfillment. It encourages a
kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging
results. We have come to believe that someone who has more educational merit
badges, who is very good at some form of school discipline is "intelligent." Yet
mental hospitals are filled with patients who have all of the properly lettered
certificates. A truer indicator of intelligence is an effective, happy life
lived each day and each present moment of every day. If you are
happy, if you live each moment for everything it’s worth, then you are an
intelligent person. Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness, but if
you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can still
choose happiness for yourself, or at a mini mum refuse to choose unhappiness,
then you are intelligent. You are intelligent because you have the ultimate
weapon against the big N. B. D. Nervous Break Down.
"Intelligent’ people do not have N. B. D. ’s because they are in charge of
themselves. They know how to choose happiness over depression, because they know
how to deal with the problems of their lives. You can begin to
think of yourself as truly intelligent on the basis of how you choose to feel in
the face of trying circumstances. The life struggles are pretty much the same
for each of us. Every one who is involved with other human beings in any social
context has similar difficulties. Disagreements, conflicts and compromises are a
part of what it means to be human. Similarly, money, growing old, sickness,
deaths, natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems to
virtually all human beings. But some people are able to make it, to avoid
immobilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences, while others
collapse or have an N. B.D. Those who recognize problems as a human condition
and don’ t measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent
kind of humans we know; also, the roost rare. According to the passage, what kind of people are rare
A.Those who don’t emphasize bookish excellence in their pursuit of happiness. B.Those who are aware of difficulties in life hut know how to avoid unhappiness. C.Those who measure happiness by an absence of problems but seldom suffer from N. B. D. ’s. D.Those who are able to secure happiness though having to struggle against trying circumstances.