People with legit high IQs, what's it like to be very smart?

>actually failed horribly
>thinks he's high IQ

Driving sucks cuz everybody's an idiot. Imagine being a normie and everybody else has an IQ of about 70. That's what it feels like. I barely leave the house anymore.

You're in engineering, but are you interested in philosophy?

I dont know my iq and i could just be autistic, but id consider myself to be intelligent

yes
I've read a bit on the subject, including some of the big names and a couple of intro books but you need to do a lot of background reading before you can get into the really big ideas and I haven't got round to it.

I wouldn't
you sound like an idiot who's deluded himself into thinking he's smart to avoid confronting the reality that you're dumb and lazy.

Ok buddy :)

My best area of intelligence is reason. Hardly anyone ever disagrees with me and is able to argue for longer than 2 minutes without realizing they're wrong or changing the subject. There is no stimulation for me when debating. I already know their arguments. I'm always thinking of so many different positions and constantly debating myself, which is probably why I do so well in actual arguments. I'm sure there are many out there that could argue better than I, especially since I don't have a huge active vocublary, but in terms of finding the most effective argument in a particular situation, I'm definitely top .1%

Who are those geeks?

Its like being retarded but more depressing

lonely, unironically.

its veru crippling. i dont like putting myself above anyone, im still human and no one is perfect.

but god damn, do the masses disgust me, of course ill still help them out, ill share whatever inventions i make to the best of my ability and try and better our lives with science.
but its fucking depressing knowing that ~3/4 of the population are "hurr sure muh social media, muh bias, gang gang" and the whole slew of other stereotypes.

all i want is someone who i can talk to about what i like, someone who shares my interests and my humour, but no one in this world seems to love science as much as i do, all of them get things wrong and have proven to be mostly driven by biases and social structure. sure, things academically are easy, but the feeling of emptiness, the isolation, feeling alone and disgusted with people crushes me.

i got a girlfriend the other day for the pussy, but she is a one dimensional snapchat group-chatting bitch that does nothing except not show up to classes and fantasize about how being in the theatre will make her a big actor.

she was the best i could find, the rest where thots.

i just want to feel like im not alone. desu im bordering on suicide, have been for a while, im thinking of doing it this week, the world isnt worth living for anymore

Iwhen it comes to feeling alone when you're interested so deeply in a subject I can relate to you. When Veeky Forums was still an idea there were never any chances for me to discuss anything historical, or to even hear the proposals and discourse of a fellow human being. Just rememeber that even f you feel alone, you have these boards to go to, where people have the same passion as you. If you're still feeling lonely, try and explore some of the other boards we have here. A burst of new ideas and new fields can help reinvigorate the mind.

>No i actually failed horribly due to nothing interesting me
You're not intelligent, you're just another sucker who deludes themself into thinking they'd be a high achiever if they actually tried.

I don't feel lonely when I watch living things live. I feel less lonely wading in a stream than at a party. People are fun to watch aswell.
Ive known more about life science than most people do since I was 4 years old, I never really had peers to talk to about things that interest me growing up, so all my social interaction was fake.
I don't get lonely but I can't make a connection to hardly anyone, often I can't even cum when I bring a grill home(back when I was a teenager). Don't kill yourself, go to a foreign place and learn a new language in Columbia or India or whatnot, your level of discourse will be lowered and you can have interesting conversations with anyone, or just take up a hobby that doesn't involve other people

A lot of the time you don't really feel very smart. Ive got an iq in the 150s but i often feel inferior and like i cant grasp concepts like true geniuses can. I guess it just feels normal? I often feel that I've squandered my intelligence

>Ive got an iq in the 150s
No you don't

Whatever you say boss

It's hell, but I suppose we prefer the devil we know over the ones we don't. It's lonely, as others have said. You become acutely aware of the fact we are all alone at a young age, though not everyone struggles to develop meaningful relationships in spite of that. The desire to change the world is weighed down by despair. It's maddening how much empathy others have, and how you are "bad" for suggesting logical solutions to problems. Fine, I'm not powerful enough to fix things anyway. What is the point? There are periods where you feel above earthly and man-made problems, but eventually you come back to care, at least about something specific. You can't shake that deep will to find solutions. For every problem you can imagine, there are the rich and numerous standing in your way. Earth conservation, space exploration, preventative medical treatment, eugenics, infrastructure, restructuring of systems, treatment of data, *application for your field of interest here*
There is always someone profiting off of death, disease, poverty, stupidity, dependency, degeneracy, destruction... and they aren't about to let some nerds stop them. So should you become a Veeky Forums chad? Keep on learning to better yourself and your field? Will you just become a wage slave? Will your life and life's work be for naught?
It's like a maze. You're constantly evaluating how actions will play out, and making careful decisions, but the downfall is that you can't see the end, so you are forever questioning if this path is wrong, if you have wasted all this time on a dead end, and where you made that wrong turn. And you can't shut it off, you can't just throw up your hands and say "I don't care" or let fate decide. Go on a bender, smoke some dope, make impulsive decisions, act like you think a carefree normie does. It is futile. You will find yourself in the company of the amused and contented, yet still alone. You will be sitting there, trying to escape, but stuck in your head as always.

Ok, here it goes. It's not very different i'd say, i don't tell people about it because as a kid i used to brag about it and other kids would ask annoying questions like: "if you have such a high IQ what's 162×626?". And i couldn't anwser that without thinking about it for a long time or using a piece of paper and a pencil.

So i've kept it mostly a secret from since i turned 13 except for when people would ask about how/why i was so young, and in their grade. And i'd anwser i've skipped two grades in primary school.

I don't know my exact IQ since here in Europe we only test untill 145+ and i got that. I went to a special eduction for extra gifted kids and was placed inbetween people who were all under 145+ and i didn't notice it untill we all told eachother about it. I guess it's not that different when you're all above 125, so it's not a singular graph.

I for one don't consider myself smart in a usefull sense i'm just really good at seeing things in my head and imaginging in 3d. I'm not good at studying at all though i'm a master procastinator and will almost never do something if i don't have to. Which has fucked up my highschool carreer.

So long story short, it doesn't matter. If you're just not under 110 you can do anything like us. We're just specialised in things and find it easy to project stuff. Atleast that's my experience in life.

I feel like everyone else is just faking being stupid. It’s inconceivable to me how people cant understand something well the first time you hear it. Seriously, just think it through, dont try to memorize shit. Think about why shit is the way it is. You dont have to remember anything, if you have an intuitive understanding of a subject you can work out the details yourself.

This was a shockingly accurate description of me and my thought process, until i found the light at the end of the thought tunnel that is nihilism. I know many people on Veeky Forums are nihilist. However, theres a difference between knowing what nihilism is about and claiming to be nihilist vs actually living it. I literally dont do anything that doesn’t contribute to my own personal happiness. It pisses people off at first but eventually your social circle just whiddles down to the people who you enjoy. I scored a 141 on a professionally administered IQ test, and i have a deep interest in physics. I was going to college, and planning to pursue a PhD. Until i saw the amount of money i could expect to make. I dropped out and went to trade school. Now i make more money working 3 days a week than i could have ever dreamed to make in acedemia, and just pursue my intellectual pursuits in my spare time for fun. Literally the best decision ive ever made. They say money cant buy happiness, but what it can buy is time to pursue that happiness. The only thing that matters in the entire universe is your own personal experience of it.

what trade/job?

What type of engineering? "I study engineering" as evidence of intellect impresses literally no scientist or mathematician. However, saying "I study chemical engineering" garners quite a bit of respect from people with their heads outside of their rectum.

No, I'm not implying ChE is the only such example.

Other people will not fulfill you, friend; that is on you. I'm not saying it is easy, because it is not, but I'm telling you that what you think matters does not.

When I'm depressed, I lock myself in my lab and work. It may seem like an unhealthy coping mechanism, but I think it's more healthy to look for fulfillment from responsibility than from people.

Just my $0.02

>score high on IQ test
>'"you're not actually high IQ because you didn't invent group theory in your mother's basement when you were 13 lol poser"
I guess all those tall people who didn't play basketball aren't actually tall

162×626
62600
37560
1252
10 1 612

(1x1) + (2x2) + (6x3) +(5^2)+100000 +5^3,5^3(1515)

I feel like this as well and am only slightly above average (average for a college student) in intelligence.

Smart people like to be very legit, what's it with high IQs?

>Look Mom I studied pure mathematics for 15 years!
>Ok honey but you're late for your night shift at Taco Bell
Or even worse, you file taxes and handle finances for a living

Industrial electrician.

It's frustrating when you're around dumb people with big egos, but very rewarding when you're around dumb people who know they're dumb or when you're around other smart people.

Imagine how a normal iq feels on days when he's surrounded by retards. Retards are everywhere.

That's how it feels every day for people with high iq.

That's the thing.

Even the most retarded nerps think they are fucking Einstein.

Being able to enjoy Rick and Morty is nice.

this, but the worst in my opinion are people with slightly above-average intelligence with big egos. The ones who do well in one or several subjects and base their whole identity around it. The ones you can back into a corner in an argument and they still won't give up because in their minds they'd already won the moment the argument began. These people should be in labor camps

>silly monkeys think their smart

Smart people don't need high IQs

>that one insecure guy replying to everyone feels threatened by telling them they are lying
kek

I lose interest in trivial things very quickly. I am a minority in new York city so I was grouped together with everyone else and was practically invisable until people saw my sat scores 2290. I passed highschool doing only doing test because homework was a waste of time. I'm incredibly good at math but parents saw it fit that I did accounting. Failed out of college because I'm lazy. I picked up programming and started making stuff. Now I'm 23 with a chain of online stores written purely in python run on a Windows laptop I got in 2008.

I've picked up stoicism and model myself after Marcus Arelius.

electrical and electronics engineering

Can only have an interesting discussion in /a/

Eventually, you become well versed in talking down to normie levels in order to carry out day-to-day tasks without appearing to be an idiot or a serial killer. It's a role you learn to play.

Women remain a bitch, however, because they insist on cleverness and spontaneity. Which is why they're so good at being raped by guys with normal IQs but adequate communication skills and a few useful pick-up lines, kek.

IQ is a meme. There's no actual way to quantify or measure 'intelligence' yet.

>I have a low IQ

quick maths

Ha. There's no consensus on what 'intelligence' even is. IQ is still our best approximation and is a good predictor of life success.

Out of curiosity, do you have trouble being spontaneous, or is that no problem but your spontaneity is off-putting to women?

Is there hope?

Wrong,

By knowing what a shape in a sequential problem of shapes? Duuuh. No.

>I understand most things easily and haven't come across anything that I feel I couldn't understand if I put enough time into it

pretty much just this.

We don't actually feel smarter most of the time. You realise your own limits much more clearly and are often prone to overthink way too much a lot of the time.

It comes in handy when learning menial things, but apart from that its day to day uses are limited. Its major upside is that you can work in high paying fields.

It's based on a French child placement test. Goddard was a hack in it for the dough

Me except the stutter

I think IQ is a joke but I would consider myself much smarter than average. I was always very head in school and in high school couldn't believe the people who said some class was hard, or had to study for hours for a test. I never had to study once until college. This was confirmed for me when I got a 35 on the ACT and was only disappointed I didn't get a 36.

My grades in college weren't great to start off because I didn't realize I actually had to study now. I transferred schools and wound up studying geology at a nice (though not elite) small private school, and my grades are up.

I always had a problem talking with kids and didn't make a lot of close friends. Not autism but I wasn't into the same things other kids were and was very aloof especially at a young age. That's turned around a bit too but I still struggle hiding my too-large ego and relating to people I think are stupid. People have surprised me in the past though, so maybe not everyone is as dumb as I think

I just can not stop myself from telling people even thou the reaction is always negative. I also rarely talk about things that interest me and have nobody to talk to about my specialty.

I scored ~134-146 on a number of tests from the military, early childhood and late adolescence/early adult (19-22).

I've been smart all my life, my whole family is that way except my mom, who is ironically the only one I enjoy. My aunt is a genius and an E-4 in the air force. My dad scored 124 and has dyslexia. He's an electrician. My oldest sister is the only one who can keep up with me that isn't a child genius I met playing cs:go or a much older adult. She took the easy way out and married rich, middle sister of my family is a lesbian and a narcissist.

All of my goals are either impossible to do within 60 years of life, impossible in general or are already being completed as we speak.

Intelligence will soon have no meaning. Everyone will be able to have smarter, faster, less evil brains that work toward a common good. Organic genius will have no sense of elitism. Data will be downloaded. All that will be left is our "souls". No one chooses birth and genetic circumstance and the universe is unjust.

but to answer your question, by nature of intelligence, a person with higher intelligence will always be lonelier and less liked. it's the same reason rich people can't connect with the poor, and are fetishized for their money.

My IQ is high but not off the charts.

I'd say that my social experience has been very up and down. When I was a kid I knew I was smart, and that became my identity. Not in the way that I would shove my smartness in everyone's faces with trivia, but that it was my source of confidence.

Spending my formative years with the only crutch holding my head up being my belief in my superiority was really unhealthy. As I grew up, I realized how much nothing IQ means. Everyone is better than me at something, and in most cases many things (whether it's sports, socializing, music, whatever).

I'm still working on recentering my confidence at a healthier source. Socializing for me now is like a constant state of conscious breathing. It's totally unnatural for me and I've taken to gamifying it in some ways. Most commonly I will try to set the "score" as how much I can make someone like me. Of course this is very stressful in itself because I'm constantly playing the game, judging myself on my performance and trying to read what other people think of me.

>still believing IQ tests are anything more than just a failed test that was only ever intended to be taken by elementary schoolers

seriously, search it up

>what's it like to be very smart?

The head is very heavy.

The body isn't strong enough to carry the Brain's weight.

So you'll feel easily tired carrying all that extra weight above your neck.

My family is full of smart people, all of them insane... My great grandfather was offered a job as a chemistry professor at Stanford and refused it. His son was a genius who became a major hippy. My Grandpa went to Berkley, my Dad went to Polytechnique (top Ivy in France). My Dad is a top executive at a transnational firm. My brother is an electrical engineer. It never ends, we are all so insane and antisocial. I am always moving because staying stagnant bores me, I personally decided to move from the US to France after 3 years of not speaking a single word of French because the American system bored me. I have no friends because I am always moving to experience some challenge. That includes fucking up my childhood, I can't explain it but I seek difficulty in life or else I don't feel I'm justified. Being smart is a lonely, depressing, and agonizing path. They weren't wrong when they said "ignorance is bliss". I don't have friends because none of them are interested in the things I'm interested in. I just stopped caring about others after a while because they never showed any interest.

I got scored >130 in elementary school and got moved to a different class which sucked because I got separated from my friends that way.

I go to a good school now doing math / CS.
I study a decent amount but I get good grades and haven't encountered something that I couldn't understand with some effort (sure I will eventually)

imo high self discipline is way more important for becoming good at anything (assuming your not especially dense)

I'm from Brazil. I study in Rio federal uni

Top 5 in Latin America. But still shitty.

I'm in a physics lecture right now.

More than half of class is filled with Brainlets Engineering students that really only care about Sports, Beer, Parties & Hot Girls.

Few are really interesting in Science like me.

I'm surrounded by Brainlets. Future engineers.

I feel alone.

Since you have asked.
IQ 127... when i was 12.(i was obsessed with it for some reason)
Anyway, yeah good wow great. It's very good to be very smart, well at least mostly. Great for trying to figure out which strategy to work with.

I am actually tired most of the time. Also ever since I've gotten to /pol/ I feel the urge to get those globalists our of my country and gas all normies. But that's just me.

Forgot to add. Am ethnically 100% Polish, visiting university and doing physics, the meme degree as some say, and only my lazyness is in my way. I learned school stuff for my final exam in just a month, which was intended for 2 years... Well, it was the final month and i spend about 4 hours each day. Final 3 days was 10 hours per day. Exam day... even though i had bad grades, i had the best grades in the final exam of my whole school.

You either feel alone in the world or like a fucking idiot when you overshoot your quest for smart people, the first one because your interest are way different from the average's and you are obligated to adapt to them, the second because you are so used to being smarter that you have no idea how to feel when you encounter a match

I believe that things like discipline, humbleness and perseverance are superior to raw intelligence, If you get both then good for you, but if you are smart and nothing else life ill be hell
Dumb people who know that they are dumb are very nice people, very humble and easy to get along with

Absolutely agree with you about the high self-discipline part. I'm in a very similar course of study ( CS major/Math minor ). I think high self-discipline is especially important if you plan on attending grad school. I'd recommend anyone to work on self-discipline during their undergrad where the course material is easier.

127 is barely above average nigger

Even if you aren't gifted inherently with autistic calculator skills, if you are able to teach them to yourself and practice them to imprint the patterns into your brain, it means you are pretty high IQ. IQ is capacity for ability, as long as you are able to train an ability to a point where it becomes nature, you are probably high IQ.

It is 27% above average. I'd say that is more than barely

>I guess all those tall people who didn't play basketball aren't actually tall
More like I guess those people who claim to have a talent for basketball but who failed to get good at it aren't all that talented

High IQ people also have great capacity for learning instruments. Where this is most apparent is ability to improvise.

(Pure conjecture BTW)

>that you have no idea how to feel when you encounter a match
Very quick fruitful discussions, understanding each other from half-word.

>humbleness above intelligence

Tell it to your professors, they will simply slap in your face.

humbleness is a massive flaw, not a benefit. success is dependent on selling yourself, be it in academia, business, or to the opposite sex.

>being humble is better than being intelligent.

So Humble Rural Flat Earthers are better and more right than arrogant Scientists & Professors.

Average nigger IQ is about 70.

I'm more or less sure that i'm at least three standard deviations above the average, so i can probably weigh here.

I'd imagine that going from a 90 iq to 140 would feel a lot like the refrigerator turning off late at night, or taking a huge shit that you've been putting off for a few days, or maybe like greasing a rusty machine that has been hard to operate lately. I'd imagine that it would feel like things just work better. they work the same as before, just better.

this to an extent. nothing is really beyond my reach intellectually. it might be comparable to being tall enough to reach the top shelf, but still having to tiptoe.

also when you are wrong you can usually just convince people you're right anyway. the dumber you are the less plausible an argument has to be to believe it.

Actually its because you're either autistic or annoying as fuck. "Debating yourself" is nothing but a bad habit, as you're not gaining new insights or views. Its only use is for mabye formulating your thought quicker or more articulately. Also, "reason" is just intelligence.

Nice, i'm actually happy. I compose music, and i'd love to be able to live off it, but i don't care as i do it for myself, and i already make enough money to live and save quite a lot.

>Wrong,
But you don't understand how being able to solve a seemingly bullshit problem shows one's capacity for abstract reasoning.

They never do.

claiming that an iq test can't be a measure of intelligence because it's "just solving puzzles" is like claiming a push up test can't be a measure of fitness because it's "just pushing yourself up from the ground"

>I guess all those tall people who didn't play basketball aren't actually tall

Not that user but you inadvertently gave credence to why IQ is bullshit with your example.

The standards for what counts as high IQ are based on nothing objectively sound. You could argue that standard deviation from the mean is objective but how far right you move away from the mean to classify "high IQ" is subjective.

The same goes for basketball as there is no objectively good height players should be at because basketball nets are subjectively set. The only reason the nets are set at 10ft is because of sheer tradition not anything objectively sound or competetive. So there is no reason other than muh old game rules for why you need +6 ft athletes.

The major fallacy being commonly observed here is that demonstrated talent appears a certain metrical "point" like some rpg when in truth it's not. This is why phenomenon such as autism fucks everything up because it doesn't play by the rules people have constructed.

So instead of keeping talent and IQ separate we have to have entire threads dedicated to constantly denying Feyman having a 125 IQ because it doesn't fit the game rules/ script.

This

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>what's it like to be
Since you don't understand how abstract of a question this is, let me explain.

I'm a hypnotist. I deal with the mind all day every day. I investigate the minds of others in ways that nobody else can possibly understand without practicing the same art.

So what is it like to "be" me? It's normal. Just as it's normal for everyone else to be whoever they are. "Normal" is ultimately an absence of sensation, and doesn't have any real substance backing it. To know what it's like to "be" something is to try being a number of different things and then compare what it was like to be those other things to what it's like to be your usual self. In other words, 99.999% of everyone will never experience being anything other than themselves, and couldn't possibly acquire the necessary context to realize what it's like to be anything else.

In other words, we have no basis for comparison.

So the answer to your question is no.

We're living in an infinite sequence of computer simulations m8, so killing yourself won't do a damn thing

From what I gathered from this thread from those with high IQs (like 120+) it seems like the cliche "with genius comes madness" is true. Honestly every person that I have ever met who came off as remotely intelligent they were always... "weird" they always have some strange quirk about them they I just dont normally see in the normal population. Even the normalish well adjusted ones seemed odd.

>mulattas
why are they so perfect?

it sucks to keep thinking about everything, trying to find reasoning on people's actions and having a hard time to understand everyone else is stupid so I must treat them like children constantly.