09-08-2005, 09:06 AM
For those of you who have a high IQ, what in your life is affected? What do you find easier? Do you find anything harder? Also, as a clarification, if you have a high IQ in a specific area, but not in general ie. you took an IQ test and scored 100 on all sections but one, the one having the score of 180 let's say, that counts too.
I'll go first. I'm pretty sure my IQ is around 120-125.
Not "really" high, but it still sets me apart from the normal crowd.
What do I find easier? Philosophy,reading comprehension and nuances of literature. I was always the best speller through sixth grade, but around the 9th grade my performance slacked off due to the subjects requiring effort, and me being "pathologically" lazy. /images/graemlins/mad.gif /images/graemlins/grin.giflol.
Do I find anything harder? Relating to other people, although alot of that probably doesn't have anything to do with intelligence, a part of it does. For example, every low wage job I get, I have a hard time relating to the people, because I'm not a sports guy, and whenever I bring up some science thing, or philosophy thing(because that's what I'm into) no one even has an opinion. And you might think it's that they just don't want to talk about that stuff, and that may be true, but there's a difference between not wanting to talk about something, and never having thought about it in the first place.
Also, another thing I don't like dealing with people is that there isn't a defined constant. I never know what people are thinking, they react in illogical ways, and they are very confusing to me. I wish interacting with people was more like math.
And another thing I notice is that I go to the library alot, and most people think that going to the library is strange.(not that the library is completely about having a higher IQ,but I'm sure there's a correlation) I was walking home from the library one day. When I arrived home, my cousin asked me where I'd been, and I said "the library".
She got a quizzical look on her face, and asked "why would you go to the library?" like it had never occured to her to go.
Anyways, I hope I get some good replies, and maybe even Sklansky will reply, although it seems he ignores most of my other posts, and he posts subjective questions that there's no answer to, but anyway.
All Hail Shooby
I'll go first. I'm pretty sure my IQ is around 120-125.
Not "really" high, but it still sets me apart from the normal crowd.
What do I find easier? Philosophy,reading comprehension and nuances of literature. I was always the best speller through sixth grade, but around the 9th grade my performance slacked off due to the subjects requiring effort, and me being "pathologically" lazy. /images/graemlins/mad.gif /images/graemlins/grin.giflol.
Do I find anything harder? Relating to other people, although alot of that probably doesn't have anything to do with intelligence, a part of it does. For example, every low wage job I get, I have a hard time relating to the people, because I'm not a sports guy, and whenever I bring up some science thing, or philosophy thing(because that's what I'm into) no one even has an opinion. And you might think it's that they just don't want to talk about that stuff, and that may be true, but there's a difference between not wanting to talk about something, and never having thought about it in the first place.
Also, another thing I don't like dealing with people is that there isn't a defined constant. I never know what people are thinking, they react in illogical ways, and they are very confusing to me. I wish interacting with people was more like math.
And another thing I notice is that I go to the library alot, and most people think that going to the library is strange.(not that the library is completely about having a higher IQ,but I'm sure there's a correlation) I was walking home from the library one day. When I arrived home, my cousin asked me where I'd been, and I said "the library".
She got a quizzical look on her face, and asked "why would you go to the library?" like it had never occured to her to go.
Anyways, I hope I get some good replies, and maybe even Sklansky will reply, although it seems he ignores most of my other posts, and he posts subjective questions that there's no answer to, but anyway.
All Hail Shooby