Intelligence has been defined in many different ways including as one's capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, planning, creativity and problem solving.

It can be more generally described as the ability to perceive information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.

A goal is a desired result or possible outcome that a person or a system envisions, plans and commits to achieve: a personal or organizational desired end-point in some sort of assumed development.

Many people endeavor to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines.

In semiotics, linguistics, sociology and anthropology, context refers to those objects or entities which surround a focal event, in these disciplines typically a communicative event, of some kind.

Context is "a frame that surrounds the event and provides resources for its appropriate interpretation." It is thus a relativistic concept, only definable with respect to some focal event, not independently.

Experience is the knowledge or mastery of an event or subject gained through involvement in or exposure to it.

Terms in philosophy such as "empirical knowledge" or "a posteriori knowledge" are used to refer to knowledge based on experience.

A person with considerable experience in a specific field can gain a reputation as an expert.

The concept of experience generally refers to know-how or procedural knowledge, rather than propositional knowledge: on-the-job training rather than book-learning.

Relevance is the concept of one topic being connected to another topic in a way that makes it useful to consider the second topic when considering the first.

The concept of relevance is studied in many different fields, including cognitive sciences, logic, and library and information science.

Most fundamentally, however, it is studied in epistemology (the theory of knowledge).

Different theories of knowledge have different implications for what is considered relevant and these fundamental views have implications for all other fields as well.