How Do We Define Intelligence?

How do we define intelligence? Not as what intelligence tests test. That's what a lot of people think. Intelligence is basically doing the right thing at the right time, in a way that helps you keep alive and sustain yourself. There are various, different kinds of intelligence beyond that. intellectual, more rational variety of intelligence needed for playing chess. But there are also things like social intelligence, being able to behave appropriately in front of an audience or with other people. And emotional intelligence,being able to understand what other people are feeling,. as well as what they might be thinking. Each of these varieties of intelligence we generally have and experience s a whole, but that doesn't mean they can't