What does having value or interest to you have to do with intelligence?

What does IQ have to do with intelligence?

(Please forgive the flippant response. I believe it cuts to the core of what the parent was intending.)

	▲	red75prime 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Is it a serious question? IQ tries to quantify the positive correlation between the results of all intellectual tasks a person takes (AKA positive manifold).