Intelligence

According to the SlovoEd dictionary, intelligence is "the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations" or "the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (as tests)". There's more of course, but that's the general idea. I was listening to something on a podcast a while back where it was suggested that: routine + ability to predict = intelligence. Which made a lot of sense - since intelligence is not just something that "happens". I'm going out on a limb here but it seems that we are not "born intelligent" but that we rather have the ability to become intelligent (more or less) based on our surroundings and experiences.