You're confusing skills with intelligence. Plasticity isn't the ability to increase your intelligence. It's the ability to learn new things. Learning how to lea

You're confusing skills with intelligence. Plasticity isn't the ability to increase your intelligence. It's the ability to learn new things. Learning how to learn doesn't make you more intelligent, it just increases your skill at that specific task (learning). I think intelligence is a general ability to solve problems. So improving your skill at solving one type of problem doesn't make you more intelligent because it doesn't increase your general ability to solve all types of problem.