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I can definitely relate. I'm not rich, but I do alright. I have a high IQ (according to "official" tests available), but I don't feel I'm smarter than anyone.
by croon 10y ago
I can definitely relate. I'm not rich, but I do alright. I have a high IQ (according to "official" tests available), but I don't feel I'm smarter than anyone.
I however do feel that I'm lazy, and have "cheated" my way through life by cunning rather than legitimately solving problems the way they're "supposed" to. I guess that's a skill in its own right, but it's made it harder for me to actually learn new stuff because my brain wants to get by with as little work as possible.
- peteretep 10y agoHate to hijack the thread, but a lot of that speaks to me. > I have a high IQ, but I don't > feel I'm smarter than anyone. Quite. My recently acquired particular piece of paper puts it beyond any shred of doubt, objectively, but it's only recently I've really acknowledged it. I suspect this has been immensely annoying for people around me. > it's made it harder for me to > actually learn new stuff > because my brain wants to get > by with as little work as > possible Yes! A related symptom for me was assuming that people who were good at stuff I'd never bothered to learn were a lot smarter than me.
- croon 10y agoThat's not a hijack, so it's quite alright. I replied simply because I recognized a similarly typed human :)