Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
~ Dogen
A standardised test is a model. A model, however sophisticated, will never reflect faithfully the reality of "intelligence" and its complexity/diversity.
Feeling smart (e.g. scoring high on IQ tests) gives a sense of certainty.
Being smart (ability to have an all-encompassing vision and bring it to life by way of intuition, creativity, and flexibility) requires the acceptance of uncertainty.
"The medicine is grief. Not collapse. Not pathology. Just grief. Grief that bodies are finite. Grief that love cannot be made perfectly safe. Grief that wanting exposes you. Grief that no amount of sovereignty exempts you from being a creature."
“It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never ‘radical,’ that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface. It is ‘thought-defying,’ as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its ‘banality.’ Only the good has depth and can be radical.”
— Hannah Arendt