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IQ is not bullshit, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient to make your life better or save it. The article exactly mentions that anxiety and depression are

IQ is not bullshit, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient to make your life better or save it. The article exactly mentions that anxiety and depression are amplified in folks like yourself. You have to overcome them to use your pseudo-superpower to save the world... or not, who knows is it even worth saving? idk Compound the extra psychological difficulty you face with the improbability of finding someone who understands you, with the counter-intuitive understanding of your situation as desirable by everyone less smart than you are, you're so lucky, I wish I was as smart as you, "no you don't, but you wouldn't understand" ... It sets you up for a very lonely life. Isolation can lead to insanity. What I'm trying to say is: What you are experiencing is normal for someone like you. BTW, what's a SWE?

denkmoon 7y ago
SWE = Software Engineer
- xorand 7y ago
  Heh, I read SJW and it totally made sense.
TheSpiceIsLife 7y ago
I believe SWE is Software Engineer in this context. > neither necessary nor sufficient So, bullshit.
- anon1m0us 7y ago
  No! It's not bullshit. It is a measurable human trait that is correlated to a wide range of life outcomes. It might actually be the most correlatable human trait there is. Yes, some of those life outcomes are good and some of those life outcomes are bad. That doesn't make it bullshit. What it most often means, if you have a high IQ, is that you have a choice and more often many choices, because you can see more choices and it's overwhelming and it's easy to give up and say fuck it all this is bullshit and SWE (I am so embarrassed to say I had to look up SWE even though I am a software engineer and one of the SWEs was smoke weed every day, ha!) Which brings me to my point! If you have high IQ, you can be a SWE or SWE. You know what I mean??
- seventhtiger 7y ago
  Extraordinary height is neither necessary nor sufficient to be in the NBA, yet here we are. They are just strongly correlated.
mandevil 7y ago
Not the OP, but I presume Software Engineer.
TurkishPoptart 7y ago
I appreciate your comment. It reminded me of a quote I heard once (probably on this board) that shed light on my childhood experience and helped me better understand myself: >When a child is dealing with anxiety/anxious behavior, it's better to treat the parents than to take the kid into therapy. Something along these lines. It helped me realize or reinforce that, while my father has had and has anxiety/depression for most of his life, his legacy might not be as much genetically imprinted on me insofar that it's of learned behavior. In other words, I recalled a rather generic memory (which means it probably happened multiple times): I was at home, minding my own business, when it became clear that someone was expected at the house - perhaps the cable guy, a plumber, or someone like that - and I remember watching my father _wait_ for this person. Like, he would be sitting on the couch, watching TV, but would go put on his shoes, then take them off, then pace around the living room, then open and shut the door, pace a little more, and sit down for a few moments, and repeat. And I recall wondering what was bothering him. And I think this was him dealing with his general anxiety and I notice this sort of behavior in myself (or at least the nagging urge to _do something_ in order to feel more comfortable somehow). So now I think I know why I get certain thoughts at certain times (and realize I don't have to respond to them in the way I think my father would). This is probably the healthy sort of realization people try to discover in therapy. I have had the fortune of seeing a handful of decent-to-great therapists throughout my life, and I have tried to mentally stash away the best gleanings, so as to justify all the time, money, and energy spent talking to these people. >BTW, what's a SWE? I thought this was the acronym people used for "software engineer". Maybe I won't use it anymore. What I was trying to express was my, well, feelings of inferiority /slash/sour grapes due to my perceived lack of career/professional success at age 30, a sense which seems to get worse and more bitter as I get older, which I would _really_ like to nip in the bud, because every time I let it take hold, it always leads to bad/negative thinking, prejudice, poor self-image, envy of others, and those sorts of things. Maybe it's Perpetual Late Bloomer Syndrome? Thanks again for your comments.
rvilj 7y ago
IQ is bullshit https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39 https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...

denkmoon 7y ago

SWE = Software Engineer

xorand 7y ago
Heh, I read SJW and it totally made sense.

TheSpiceIsLife 7y ago

I believe SWE is Software Engineer in this context. > neither necessary nor sufficient So, bullshit.

anon1m0us 7y ago
No! It's not bullshit. It is a measurable human trait that is correlated to a wide range of life outcomes. It might actually be the most correlatable human trait there is. Yes, some of those life outcomes are good and some of those life outcomes are bad. That doesn't make it bullshit. What it most often means, if you have a high IQ, is that you have a choice and more often many choices, because you can see more choices and it's overwhelming and it's easy to give up and say fuck it all this is bullshit and SWE (I am so embarrassed to say I had to look up SWE even though I am a software engineer and one of the SWEs was smoke weed every day, ha!) Which brings me to my point! If you have high IQ, you can be a SWE or SWE. You know what I mean??
seventhtiger 7y ago
Extraordinary height is neither necessary nor sufficient to be in the NBA, yet here we are. They are just strongly correlated.

mandevil 7y ago

Not the OP, but I presume Software Engineer.

TurkishPoptart 7y ago

I appreciate your comment. It reminded me of a quote I heard once (probably on this board) that shed light on my childhood experience and helped me better understand myself: >When a child is dealing with anxiety/anxious behavior, it's better to treat the parents than to take the kid into therapy. Something along these lines. It helped me realize or reinforce that, while my father has had and has anxiety/depression for most of his life, his legacy might not be as much genetically imprinted on me insofar that it's of learned behavior. In other words, I recalled a rather generic memory (which means it probably happened multiple times): I was at home, minding my own business, when it became clear that someone was expected at the house - perhaps the cable guy, a plumber, or someone like that - and I remember watching my father _wait_ for this person. Like, he would be sitting on the couch, watching TV, but would go put on his shoes, then take them off, then pace around the living room, then open and shut the door, pace a little more, and sit down for a few moments, and repeat. And I recall wondering what was bothering him. And I think this was him dealing with his general anxiety and I notice this sort of behavior in myself (or at least the nagging urge to _do something_ in order to feel more comfortable somehow). So now I think I know why I get certain thoughts at certain times (and realize I don't have to respond to them in the way I think my father would). This is probably the healthy sort of realization people try to discover in therapy. I have had the fortune of seeing a handful of decent-to-great therapists throughout my life, and I have tried to mentally stash away the best gleanings, so as to justify all the time, money, and energy spent talking to these people. >BTW, what's a SWE? I thought this was the acronym people used for "software engineer". Maybe I won't use it anymore. What I was trying to express was my, well, feelings of inferiority /slash/sour grapes due to my perceived lack of career/professional success at age 30, a sense which seems to get worse and more bitter as I get older, which I would _really_ like to nip in the bud, because every time I let it take hold, it always leads to bad/negative thinking, prejudice, poor self-image, envy of others, and those sorts of things. Maybe it's Perpetual Late Bloomer Syndrome? Thanks again for your comments.

rvilj 7y ago

IQ is bullshit https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39 https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...