Everyday terms like open-mindedness, curiosity, and skepticisim refer to thinking dispositions. Everyday decision-making offers a good example. If I do recognize that I'm facing a decision, then I have to ask whether it's worth the bother to make the decision thoughtfully. Many decisions aren't that important. Finally, if I do want to invest in a thoughtful decision, I have a fairly well-defined problem to figure out.
Schools often begin there, teaching kids how to deal with clearly defined problems.
However, life is more confusing and complicated than that. Often the greatest challenge is just discerning whether there is a problem or what the problem is. You have to muck around and puzzle out what you want or need to do and where to invest your efforts. That's intelligence in the wild. For a number of years, we have done research at Project Zero on thinking dispositions in an attempt to measure people's ability to detect the problems in situations.