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Ask HN: How to be okay with having an average intelligence?
Some people change the world, some people see and solve problems majority can't and need to study to understand. How can you be okay knowing you'll never be one of those people that actually leave the mark? How can you be okay with having a wife, a child or two, raising them, but knowing all of you are just average? How can you ever be okay unless you know and are proved to be a genius?
- NDizzle 6y agoHow are all of you average? By what measure? My goal is to enable my children to become more than I am. So far, so good.
- uberman 6y agoI would be cautious with conflating success, intelligence, fame and happiness. Sure, there might be some correlation between them. In my opinion they measure completely different things. Personally, I am perfectly content to be an unknown affluent tech weenie with a great family raising confident children rather than be a world changing savant who callously names their kid with glyphs and numbers.
- chadcmulligan 6y agoScott Adams advice probably applies https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/career-advice.html https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/car... or here https://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2013/10/23/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-reveals-the-simple-formula-that-will-double-your-odds-of-success/#148920fb2dbc https://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2013/10/23/dilbert... Most skills don't require above average intelligence, but persistence imho.