Sandeep Chavan / Sandeep J. Chavan
Librería Desdémona
Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Donde los libros
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Intelligence: It’s Not What You Think By Sandeep ChavanWhat is intelligence? For centuries, we’ve praised it, measured it, feared it, and even built machines to imitate it - yet we’ve never truly defined it.Is it IQ? Wisdom? Morality? Cleverness? AI? Each answer sounds convincing, but each one misses the essence. We’ve mistaken the glow for the fire, the performance for the principle.In Intelligence: It’s Not What You Think, Sandeep Chavan dismantles the illusions surrounding one of humanity’s most celebrated yet misunderstood concepts. From the cultural obsession with test scores to the misplaced reverence for 'wise gurus,' from ancient philosophies to modern AI hype, this book reveals how intelligence has been described by its outcomes but never understood at its core.The breakthrough is startling in its simplicity: intelligence is consequential alignment. It is not what you know, but how you respond to what follows. It is not speed, memory, or rank, but the living mechanism that links perception to survival, action to meaning.Across five parts, the book guides readers on a journey:Illusions of Intelligence - why IQ, wisdom, and morality fail as definitions.The Mechanics of Intelligence - distinguishing information, knowledge, and true response.The Layers of Intelligence - pure, artificial, and living expressions of the same field.Clearing the Confusions - separating instinct, habit, and morality from intelligence.Intelligence in Context - education, science, AI, and the path toward a ripple civilization.With clarity and provocation, Chavan shows why competing with AI is a trap, why borrowed habits lead to depression, and why civilizations collapse when they ignore the law of consequence. At the same time, he offers a vision of intelligence as a Universal Skill - a practice that every individual and society can cultivate through awareness, adaptation, and alignment.This is not another book telling you how to be 'smarter.' It is a lens that redefines intelligence itself - freeing it from numbers, dogmas, and illusions.The future will not ask, 'Are you intelligent?' It will ask, 'Do you live intelligently?'
