Brainlet Thread

It's not because of that
I started lurking on Veeky Forums and playing vidya and shit and still was able to do well
You're just giving yourself an excuse

mother of god this is so real
i didn't learn that i'm supposed to sleep enough and eat regularly and not play videogames during the week until i entered college, and that's because college was easier than highschool, so i actually fell out of the cycle of failure long enough to realize what i have to do to perform well.

How retarded would be to take stimulants for maximum productivity? Kinda tired of being tired and lazy all the time

Is true that if you are not good at Math, you are automatically a brainlet ? My major is psychology and I understand philosophy quite intuitively; Maths and any kind of left brain activity related to linear reasoning can often make real agitated. I am dyslexic.

>tfw this is all true
>tfw all you've care about is mathematics
>tfw you are above average smart at it so it is a perfect match
>tfw lazy school student so never try competitions or anything. My version of doing mathematics is jerking off, doing metaphorical weed, watching numberphile videos and doing integrals
>finish school, go on to study pure mathematics at university
>Do really well because doing university mathematics is different from doing contest mathematics. It is very much like doing metaphorical weed. All you have to do is look at the definitions and theorems and see the almost obvious consecuences, and then write it with 100 layers of mathematical abstraction to make it rigorous.
>I get used to being able to prove anything in less than 5 seconds. The moment a problem does not immediately click I give up and move on the next.
>My first bad experience with this was last year, when a professor shared a problem that I considered too hard given that I could not solve it in 5 seconds. I gave up on it and told myself "the professor would not put something this hard in a test". Then surprisingly that exact problem was in the test. Luckily I am able to solve it. This is the first time I spend more than 30 minutes in a problem but because I was able to do it I did not learn my lesson.
>Keep on going like this
>Next time this happens is in a homework problem. There is one I simply cannot crack. I see many possible ways to solve the problem, but because none of them will immediately give me the answer I consider them all useless. Someone with my IQ should not have to do all that manual labor. I get fucking stressed and start googling like a motherfucker. After digging up the cemetery of the internet I find that this is an old problem fron the international mathematics olympiad and I read the official solution.
>tfw the formal proof takes like 4 pages of crazy work but it all starts with literally the second thing I wanted to try.
>feels bad man

You can be smart in other ways such as business or people.
Here you'd be a brainlet though.

If you're self-aware enough to make a thread like this, you're probably not that much of a brainlet compared to some people

Illusion of self-awareness*

lol

>had a chance to skip a grade or two
>mom doesn't let me and says I should be with kids my own age
>had chance to go to class for gifted children
>mom doesn't let me and says I should be with normie children