Intelligence goes beyond the ability to question, listen and learn. It includes an ability to connect the dots and to imagine the big picture, to recognize patterns, to understand proportion and to shift the contexts for thinking. It's directly related to imagination, the ability to reorganize ideas and mental images in the mind, to solve problems, to create mental "experiments" and to invent. The parable of the Emperor's new clothes is about the power - of authority, convention and peer pressure - to make obvious stupidity seem invisible, except to the naive and fearless, or the radicals and visionaries who can see the truth in the moment and say what they see.