I'm no genius, but I grew up smarter than a lot of the people around me. Smart enough to realize how pointless and vapid and hollow most of modern society is, which robbed me of any drive to "succeed."
What's this "teenager mindset" that's constantly used as a rebuttal to any antagonistic sentiment towards society, etc? In other words, what does it mean (teenager mindset)? Genuinely curious.
It's gonna be hilarious if function center probing neurology techniques ever get co-mingled with Looney Toons in an AI and we get incredibly precise head bonk transhumanism
Smart but lazy has been a thing since formal education, which focuses the curriculum on the lowest common denominator.
I was that way in school. I could get by with Bs and Cs without having to do any homework because I did so well on quizzes and tests, without even studying. It fricked me later in life because I didn't apply myself when there were things I actually needed to do work for (freshman year)
But he isn’t lazy at all. Guy works construction all day and spends most of his evenings studying complex subjects.
The movie is more about how growing up in terrible conditions made him completely aimless.
He's not lazy at all. He's not a shitty neet. Will taught himself advanced math and other various topics.
He grew up in a terrible environment and was abused as a young kid.
>Being a janitor takes a whole lot more (grueling) work
And he took pride in doing that work. He identified with his friends and did the same types of jobs they did.
He's not lazy, he lacks ambition.
He actually reads a lot of books and has a lot of knowledge unlike the lazy people itt whining about how they're secretly genius if they actually tried to be
Can someone who was designated as gifted in their childhood or adulthood tell me what it's like? I didn't graduate high school and I blame my shitty life on my dull mind.
i got made fun of for using big words like patronage, was always younger than my classmates later on, couldn't even legally drink all through college so it was even harder to socialize. wouldn't recommend.
Yeah you're an obvious liar because I've seen plenty of underage kids at ivy league schools that i knew were wicked smaht and still knew how to get fake ids just like any other dumbass underage kid. Go frick yourself.
I didn't. I was "gifted" then ascended to superintelligence, then hyperintelligence. When that happens you remove yourself from society because the Fallen Earth doesn't deserve your talent. You focus on teaching the salvation of Jesus to anyone within reach and happily await death and the New Earth, where your talents will be put to full use.
I realized early on I literally didn't have to do anything in school and they couldn't make me do anything and I would pass every grade anyway. I ended up taking a couple weeks in senior year to get my HSED.
It's kind of nice. I can learn anything I want to, people can't lie to me because I remember everything they say that's important and I always know who people are, what they want, and nobody can hide anything from me. I've always been pretty much immediately good at everything. I figure things out, know things, and notice things almost nobody else does to the point where dozens of people make comments about it. Been called a genius and brilliant. I'm even extremely handsome and get cat called, been eye fricked and eye gawked by girls in front of their boyfriends etc etc
My life is garbage. I live in constant emotional and physical pain. I am not happy.
Basically what I'm saying is, it's not your mind that is at fault. A bright mind cannot make a shitty existence into a good one. It will not magically make you succeed. It will not save you from the cruel harshness of reality. That has to come from you, from perseverance, and improving your lot in life however you can and learning to accept who you are, and learning to live life in a healthy constructive way and to be happy and content. That is way more complicated than it sounds, and being smart doesn't teach you to do that. You have to learn the hard way and just do it.
>That has to come from you, from perseverance, and improving your lot in life however you can and learning to accept who you are, and learning to live life in a healthy constructive way and to be happy and content. That is way more complicated than it sounds, and being smart doesn't teach you to do that. You have to learn the hard way and just do it.
reads Nietzsche once.
many such cases
i'm sorry to tell you but you're actually just a moron who thinks he's smart. many such cases. the sooner you accept this, the sooner you can fix yourself.
When I was in the 6th grade I was given an IQ test and scored 144. Because of this and my math scores, when I entered junior high I was taking 8th grade, then 9th-grade math in 7th grade. I scored a 34 on the ACT.
I didn't go to college, I joined the military and my GT score afforded me a nice MOS. Was known for being smart, and worked under the XO and CO as an E-3, doing a staff sergeant's job. After I left the military I started working for my uncle at his plumbing and heating company as a systems designer.
If your parents don’t have money you get a pat on the head for being brighter than the average crayon, and that’s about it. Though army recruiters hounded the frick out of me to join. At least they said they were army. Coulda been spooks for all I know. I did get free college, which was nice. I find a lot of brighter morons on Cinemaphile like me who just act like morons. I can see a scam coming a mile away and seem to notice things many others do not, but that’s about it for usefulness. We don’t live in a merit-based society so it’s not like you’ll get paid better or be presented good opportunities unless you’re a legacy or know somebody. You’re not missing anything, really.
I realized early on I literally didn't have to do anything in school and they couldn't make me do anything and I would pass every grade anyway. I ended up taking a couple weeks in senior year to get my HSED.
It's kind of nice. I can learn anything I want to, people can't lie to me because I remember everything they say that's important and I always know who people are, what they want, and nobody can hide anything from me. I've always been pretty much immediately good at everything. I figure things out, know things, and notice things almost nobody else does to the point where dozens of people make comments about it. Been called a genius and brilliant. I'm even extremely handsome and get cat called, been eye fricked and eye gawked by girls in front of their boyfriends etc etc
My life is garbage. I live in constant emotional and physical pain. I am not happy.
Basically what I'm saying is, it's not your mind that is at fault. A bright mind cannot make a shitty existence into a good one. It will not magically make you succeed. It will not save you from the cruel harshness of reality. That has to come from you, from perseverance, and improving your lot in life however you can and learning to accept who you are, and learning to live life in a healthy constructive way and to be happy and content. That is way more complicated than it sounds, and being smart doesn't teach you to do that. You have to learn the hard way and just do it.
They were. They were just more intelligent than most of the adults around them, and that's very confusing for a child. Couple that with boredom and social isolation, and you get people seeking any means of escapism possible.
>They were just more intelligent than most of the adults around them
No they really weren’t. I don’t believe it for a second. The story about a bunch of students with very high IQ all becoming complete burn out losers don’t align with reality.
Define "a bunch", because it happens all the time. You've been on a crusade through this whole thread. That's obvious.
What happened to you? Did you score poorly on an IQ test? Did all of your friends get out into advanced classes and you got left behind? Did you have some friends that everyone rightfully acknowledged as being more intelligent than you, but you were a good boy and made sure to study hard and do what you were told? Now you're a midwit, living a midwit's life, trying to lord the product of your obedience over people more intelligent than you? Was it family? An older brother, I'm thinking. Be honest.
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You can easily check out the statistics regarding IQ and life outcomes. Quit your dumb psychobabble shit.
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Gotcha good, didn't I? Maybe someday you'll win their respect. Keep working hard, we need people like you. Bet you never miss a day of work.
I was told that I was "gifted" when I was in school but then because I was doing really well in all my subjects my parents made me apply to one of those top high schools where literally the top percentage of kids go to. I'm not American so idk if it's the same in America. Anyway, I got into this "prestigious" and "top" high school and I was the dumbest kid in my year. Not only was everyone there ridiculously smart, they were also super motivated to get the highest grades possible, go to the best universities and then go on to work at top companies doing the hardest jobs, it was absolutely unreal how smart some of these people were - math olympiad champions etc. You might imagine "a bunch of nerds who study all the time" and it's true - a lot of them spent quite a bit of time studying, but they were so fricking smart that they could literally learn something in a few hours that would take me days to digest. Some people there were definitely just kids that had insane parents though who forced them to grind non-stop, I saw one kid have a complete meltdown because he scored 92% and not 100% on an exam. I would score like mid 60's sometimes (anything below 45 would be a fail) and people would make fun of me for being a moron. Some of these kids were also like top tier athletes at the same time, others were just super normal people who you would never guess had insane levels of intellect and others were absolute giga autist nerds. The good thing about an environment like this that it really motivates you and helps you focus and study so you do actually improve because you actually feel like you want to be good and the teachers are total experts at teaching their subjects. That being said I realised after like a year or so that I was actually just an average person, completely not gifted in any way, I just got really lucky that I had a good foundation early in school and my parents took a big interest in me and made sure I studied etc.
This. My neighbour when I was a kid went to one of these prestigious/top schools and told me that he's like an average student there, meanwhile even the kids I would have considered "smart" from my class were stupid compared to him. 10 years later he's working in a quant hedge fund and is loaded and when I asked him about going to that kind of school he said you're just super motivated when you're there, but that although everyone said he was "gifted" before he got into that school, he was like an average student there and the top students in those schools were the actual "gifted" ones
What like aerospace and ChemEng? No, this is describing a level beyond that. Unless they’re exclusively the ones from MIT and CalTech.
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I more meant in general, companies that work on worldwide levels, with intense amounts of it being at the government (or evading government) levels. Above that however is literal think tank type work, where if your bent isn't towards deception, you may not really know who you're working for.
I'm the guy from the original post about this and I can tell you that the ones that I still have on social media some are working in quant firms/hedge funds, which might sound like a regular job to you, but I assure you top quants/traders earn millions in bonuses alone. Some have their own startups and one of my friends is a partner at a major law firm also making serious money.
I remember hearing something years ago about how these aunt firms and hedge funds were seriously fricking up human progress by luring so many of these top minds away from fields of science. Imagine if most of the guys on the Manhattan Project had all gone to chase salaries in finance instead...
It's people telling you you're special a lot at ages you should be told the opposite. The only reason I got my shit together was because I met and kept in touch with other kids in my situation, and realized how self-driven they were. They were every bit as socially isolated as I was, but they put 90% of their minds into advancing themselves. I copied what they were doing and found success.
If not for them I would have caved into the loneliness and have been crushed under the albatross of expectations. When you're told you're special 24/7 for years and years and years, even the idea of failure is unfathomable, and when you inevitably slam into it, everything else falls apart. That's where existentialism, drugs, narcissism, and other fricked up shit comes from. It's driven by fear.
Yeah, it's great being told how special and smart you are all the time. Then it becomes an expectation. Then it becomes a label. Then it becomes a prison. And eventually, when you meet people that are even more exceptional than you, it becomes a fat fricking joke.
I mean shit, that's what happens in the movie. Skarsgard's character is a student-fricking hotshot whose life basically goes to shit (as does the life of every other mathematician who runs into Damon) when he realizes that actually no, he wasn't special at all. He was just another asshat.
>Yeah, it's great being told how special and smart you are all the time. Then it becomes an expectation. Then it becomes a label. Then it becomes a prison
Well said and my experience has been similar. Having every professor or employer constantly reinforce how they expect greatness of me is a huge amount of pressure. Just because I can succeed doesn't mean I don't feel stress. Knowing a dozen people are going to be disappointed in me if I score below 85% on an exam is not a fun feeling. I'm not allowed to have bad days because of my intelligence.
Pretty nice man. Didn’t have to try much in school because I picked everything up quickly. Now I make lots of money. My life is still shit but I bet I can think my way out of that.
It was pretty nice when I was younger. I had an advanced reading level and expansive vocabulary, devouring books like they were nothing. I still enjoy English and reading but I was burned out by age ~12. By fifteen I gave up entirely and dropped out. People still compliment my ability to compose a piece of writing but I procrastinate so much. I wonder if the books were a coping mechanism before the mental illness truly began to set in. I'm depressed, anxious and almost constantly bored and dissatisfied.
people are impressed with how 'smart' I am even though I feel mentally unhinged/moronic. I think it's just because I'm good with numbers and algorithms which most people seem to think is black magic, and they just kind of hand wave away 90% of the sperg aspect because I don't look like sloth from the goonies, also this
I have a 144 IQ, so smarter than most, but not a genius.
As a child one of the things I noticed was that I was the “smart” one pretty quickly even with new groups of kids.
I didn’t hate it. I noticed how fricking stupid most people are pretty early so I never had a large circle of friends.
I’m not a millionaire (although I’m comfortably in the upper middle class) so obviously IQ isn’t everything.
145 IQ is above a genius. IQ is a normal distribution, only 2.2 percent of people have an IQ at or above 130 --which is considered to be a genius-- and only .1% of people have an IQ of 145 or above. To be at that level of intelligence is to be extraordinarily gifted, objectively.
1.) Your IQ test was administered incorrectly and you were given a score vastly inflating your IQ
2.) You simply do not feel like a genius because you do not know what it feels like to be unintelligent.
>You simply do not feel like a genius because you do not know what it feels like to be unintelligent
I am often perplexed by how long it takes my colleagues to accomplish simple tasks, so maybe that is it.
I know my uncle has a IQ of 160 and I do think he is a genius so maybe that colors my perceptions of what a genius is.
>Can someone who was designated as gifted in their childhood or adulthood tell me what it's like?
"Gifted" is so incorrectly applied to children that it's meaningless to your performance academically. AP classes are more a test of focus for a 12yr old than a measure of intelligence. Kids with strict parents of early OCD shine in AP and the truely highly intelligent kids realize their energy is best used elsewhere than grade 7 exams.
There's also no social status as a gifted child either and the AP classes will likely isolate you too. At least the "gifted" young athletes get girls and invited to parties. Nobody except teachers gave a shit that I was exceptional at math. Being gifted as a child is a lot of unreasonable work for your age and no real feelings of being superior to others.
Gifted as an adult is a different story. People of all levels and in all environments praise you constantly. Jobs and schools will trip over themselves to offer you benefits. Girls take especial notice too as high intelligent in adulthood means high paying job and therefore a potential easier life for them.
You also begin to see the initiative structure for socialization much easier. After one brief conversation with someone I can accurately gage their entire personality and how to make them comfortable. On the creepy side, when you're high intelligence it's very easy to manipulate people. You make an immediate presence whenever you enter a social dynamic and people love to hear your perspective on events.
I have never been formally tested but only used some of the more allegedly accurate IQ tests, which scored me at 101-105. I have met some truly intelligent people, but the vastest majority of those that I knew who were sharp and incredibly gifted inevitably fell into eccentric lifestyles of drug abuse, or suicide. Of those I know that are most successful the only truly standout characteristic is drive. Far as I can tell it as a simple peon, the only thing that matters in life with regards to being seen as "a genius" is hard work and dedication. You won't have the same level of intelligence as the truly gifted, but most who have it squander it or are disabled by it.
>the vastest majority of those that I knew who were sharp and incredibly gifted inevitably fell into eccentric lifestyles of drug abuse, or suicide
Where the frick are you people from? Literally all the smart people I knew from school are now doing post-doc research, doing residencies, and becoming professors.
>Literally all the smart people I knew from school are now doing post-doc research, doing residencies, and becoming professors.
Sample bias. You also don't need to have an IQ of 135 to be a doctor. People of high intelligence (we're talking top 2-3%) have a dramatically higher rate of mental health issues. Autism, OCD, anxiety, ADHD, ect. All these issues also dramatically increase the chances of drug abuse.
Nobody really knows why, but the anecdotal explanation for thousands of years is that being high intelligence makes you more aware to the truely horribly state environment and even moreso that no solution exists. It's easier to ignore your deep, existential pain if you're too stupid to multiply three digit numbers.
>which scored me at 101-105
Please tell me as much about yourself as possible. How do you view the world? What interests you? What are you most "out there" beliefs?
I've got an IQ of 140 and every time I have to interact with other people it frustrates me because basic shit that comes to me in 2 seconds takes them 2 hours to work out. I really disagree with the whole "gifted" bullshit, it lulls people into a false sense of security. Personally I think the best schooling system is the asian one where you're judged ruthlessly against your peers and the rest of the country by having your scores posted up on a wall for the whole school year to see after every test, if I'd had that I probably would've been motivated to study to beat everyone else instead of just coasting by on easy As for doing an hour worth of study right before the test.
Honestly, you're not missing anything. I like being smart, but everyone in the midwit bracket is too smart to eat the bugs, but not smart enough to see beyond it.
>everyone in the midwit bracket is too smart to eat the bugs, but not smart enough to see beyond it.
Midwit here, I have two hours, go ahead and explain what's "beyond it"
You know how if you leave a piece of candy out for an ant, it will find it, go nuts, and bring back hundreds of ants so they can carry it home? And then you're forced to murder them all because they came into your kitchen and violated the NAP?
It's like that. I wish I could explain to the ant, don't take the candy, go eat a dead bug and you have a good chance of surviving and proliferation, but the ant can't know this, because his brain is too small and responds to basic signals. The danger of the candy is forever unknowable to the ant.
>being smart is speed >the best system is one where you are judged from a shared test with others where the system decide the whole test
the educational system / school is the biggest moron maker
Tests analyze your ability to remember X amount of pointless knowledge that offers zero utility outside of a specialized field and apply logical processes, both things that are useful for making you into a good cog for industry.
Being smart is speed. My brain makes the jumps of logic faster and remembers things quicker, which results in enhanced problem solving. If you're too dumb, it's quite possible that you forget the question before you get to a solution.
I consider abstraction to just be an application of speed. If you're thinking through things faster anyway, it makes more sense to check if the problem is valid to begin with because you've got extra time to do that.
you see people who claim "they were called gifted" are just misremembering things, or exaggerating. or they simply starting identifying with the "le gifted 90s kids" after it became a social media meme.
they never actually had "gifted classes" they sorted kids into A or B groups and some of the teachers were moronic enough to acknowledge that one group is better than the other. the kids came up with the "gifted" thing not the teachers. those same "gifted" kids would probably call mandela effect on this and struggle to find something with the word "gifted" on it from their childhood
It depends on where you are in world. My school year was separated into 6 classes based on test scores each year, if you were in class 1 you were the smartest and if you were in class 6 you were the dumbest. In addition to this, there was a "gifted" program, and about 10 students were in that, you got a gay letter sent home and some dumb extracurricular activity programs.
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>class 1 you were the smartest and if you were in class 6 you were the dumbest
that's what i meant by A and B class. the teachers were supposed to stick to "oh it's random!" but eventually word would get out that X class is the smart kids and Y is the tards >and about 10 students were in that, you got a gay letter sent home and some dumb extracurricular activity programs.
those were just the kids getting molested that had nothing to do with IQ. search your heart you know it to be true
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>the teachers were supposed to stick to "oh it's random!"
Again, in my country, they told us. Everybody knew, and if you did shit on the tests at the end of the year, you'd get knocked down a class. Had a buddy who clearly fluked an exam and made it into class 1 for science and he struggled the whole year. Only class that wasn't performance based was gym class, where they put half the kids in 1, and half in 2. But even that was technically based on the time tabling for the rest of the classes, so if you were in class 1, 3 or 5 for some other subject you'd be in class 1 for gym.
The gifted thing was some government program, apparently they scrapped it a while back to allocate the funds for Black folk instead. As far as I remember everyone in it was in class 1, and they were all ugly, myself included.
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>The gifted thing was some government program, apparently they scrapped it a while back to allocate the funds for Black folk instead. As far as I remember everyone in it was in class 1, and they were all ugly, myself included.
false memories never happened
When i was in middle school my math teacher told my parents i was mentally moronic. That i would struggle with post-pre-algebra the rest of my life.
I was a druggie in high school and slept through advanced classes. I was eventually expelled for bringing knifes to school and making a bowl in shop class.
Eventually i worked through community college, earning an associates in engineering, then went to a top state university earning a degree in aerospace engineering.
Now im one of the top engineers in the country. I have a wall full of certificates and licensed in over a dozen states. I make 6 figures, own multiple companies and rebut experts in their 60s when im in my 30s.
With all that said, if you dont have the IQ then just quit and live a life full of weed an masturbation. I honestly mean it. I score 157 on the raven matrices test. Its a weight i wish i could let go and just spend the rest of my life as a server/bartender drinking and smoking weed and banging prostitutes.
125IQ here so king of midwits but still got told I was gifted at the start of highschool
Spent the rest of highschool and university not studying and coasting by on Cs and Bs. Then find out in university that doing that severely fricks your chances of doing anything other than a bachelors degree.
I now run my own business and work probably 20-30hrs a week and spend the rest writing, playing piano or working out.
I started the business only in April last year and in the first year of trading took home 36K into my own pocket from it. I was working another job at the same time though.
Looking at probably finishing at around 54k in the next year, which is less than I was making in my previous job but I'm a frickload happier.
you see people who claim "they were called gifted" are just misremembering things, or exaggerating. or they simply starting identifying with the "le gifted 90s kids" after it became a social media meme.
they never actually had "gifted classes" they sorted kids into A or B groups and some of the teachers were moronic enough to acknowledge that one group is better than the other. the kids came up with the "gifted" thing not the teachers. those same "gifted" kids would probably call mandela effect on this and struggle to find something with the word "gifted" on it from their childhood
I was gifted in Elementary school and graduated Highschool with a 3.9 GPA then got into a halfway decent University. I'd say something people misunderstand is that being smart is like le ebic Tony Stark or Rick Sanchez super powers when it's more like absorbing information fast plus the ability to put things together, atleast for me. That being said, almost anyone can be smart if their parents give a shit when they're children. Most humans are unironic cattle so it's not hard to be in the upper echelon, but it's easy to get demoralized and wonder what you even do it for.
Achieved all my dreams and goals. But I didn’t need a special class to tell me I could be great. You gotta believe you’re somehow like better than god possibly and that fuels a kid to excel in life
>be really smart >dont actually learn how to learn correctly >by the time you enter university you are ill equipped to deal with it compared to your peers >waste of time
I'm fairly smart but I have ADHD so life is fricking torture. I went to a good school but the first 16 years of my life was a slow and agonizing mindrape of under-stimulating nothingness. I just sat there and fidgeted 99% of the time. I really don't want to medicate but I'm in university right now and my brain is a fricking mess.
games, lots of games.
if you weren't gorging yourself on video games in the 90s/2000s then you were a moron, that era of wealth/growth/excitement won't happen again any time soon, if ever. computing was the future.
i rarely studied or did homework, almost failed every class my entire life because i had zero patience to memorize shit id be able to lookup instantly one day
in the end i was right and the system was wrong
i earned 400k this last year doing nothing but writing code, not interested in management
I was told I was moronic until about grade 3 because I didn't want to do the basic simple work they allocated. When I hit grade 3 I was told I had the academic skills of a middle school child. That year I scored the 2nd highest in my class for everything.
Then life fell apart when Dad got cancer, went crazy and died when I was 12. Started skipping school, developed anxiety disorder, panic disorder, depression. I became physically incapable of going to school because when I was there I'd feel physically ill to the point of tears.
Didn't study all the way until about grade 12, and even then I had a mental breakdown before my exams and spent the entire time playing video games. Your mind is dull when it's angry, stressed and emotional, throughout high school I averaged Cs, Bs, skipped assignments and was given the average, etc. Occasionally I'd do exceptionally well, but then I was back to mental illness land shortly after.
Sort of got my shit together now, and getting Distinctions and High Distinctions in university.
But essentially I'm a huge waste of potential, and I'm not sure I'll ever overcome that.
The thing with IQ is sure you get a headstart, but any stupid frick can excel past you if you can't steer yourself in the right direction.
I played vidya instead of piano and became a mediocre adult, but I got back into piano and made a career out of it in my 20s, but I don't really like it and am just limping along without any passion or drive
>have high IQ >be smart enough to see that israelites will crush you no matter what you do >be smart enough to see that being smart just makes you even more of a target >do nothing >end up in same place as midwit
Not really in the gifted territory but I was always top 3 in my class. Became a stemcel because I liked Physics. Got into the premier engineering school in my country and realized how moronic I am. Lost all interest in academics. Now I'm in the 15th percentile in my class and I despise engineering in general. My biggest aspiration in life is to find a government job(preferably not in engineering) in a backwater town and essentially disappear.
You'll get 50 replies from people that claim to have IQs <0.1% of people get and the typical misanthrope teenager garbage everyone except them grew out of
Gifted and talented classes in elementary, 140s IQ, coasted through HS and college, now living in Hollywood, early 30s and a pseudo alcoholic writer, 15 spec scripts deep with no sale yet. I can't tell if I'm too smart for this generation of execs or I'm just a hack.
Lol Nolan is one of my heroes. Wish I had a cinema freak brother like he does to bounce ideas off of. I'm a nobody from the midwest out here alone in the heart of darkness (and sunshine).
my best friend was incredibly gifted at pretty much everything, like at the age of 9 he was doing mathematics for a 21 year old in University. The thing was a curse. There was a huge amount of high hopes and pressure put on him, constantly from school and his parents pushing him to transfer elsewhere out of a public education, but he just wanted to be with his friends doing normal things
when it came to University he was offered the best in the country, but declined them all
he suffered from depression and coped with alcoholism as well as other drug use in his early 20's, which often seems the case for people like him
eventually he went to uni, attained a Bachelors in half the usual time and even acquired a large government bursary to ensure he finished it due to being so gifted
hasn't done jack shit with his degree though because he was just never interested in anything academic. Currently a freelance copywriter and wants to be an author
Don't matter if you actually end up very successful or not, you'll find your job easier than for your stupid normie coworkers. Once you accepted that, you just can work minimum to outperform them and relax.
>Can someone who was designated as gifted in their childhood or adulthood tell me what it's like?
If you think these people hang out here you're even more delusional than I thought you were.
They’re called savants. They exist. Not like Will Hunting for the most part, but more like rainman. The human brain is incredible. Most who are exceptional in some way carry a lot of misery too.
look at Christopher langan. 195-220 iq came from a poor background . never finished college and worked blue collar jobs his whole life. owns a horse ranch with his wife now
He answers the phone at the Chinese takeout restaurant.
He has to know the menu numbers because his mom don't speak the English.
Mathematical theory has been advanced by people who look like Euclid and the israelites who stole the credit.
Did the police let you out of the ghetto project building yet after welding you inside?
My entire degree in Applied Mathematics was 6 textbooks for the core information. Yeah, you need to be rather smart for the upper levels of math but you don't need 20 books to learn how to solve PDEs and some group theory problems.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
That chalkboard problem was moronic as frick. Like intro level graph theory shit
While I realized as an adult it probably wasn't much the same, as a kid I'd heard about Real Genius's laser weapon having to be changed because the real world CalTech students doing the consult job had accidently built one that might work the first time around and thought it might be that.
I was at a restaurant eating, and when I got the check, I was wondering out loud how much 20% of $82 was. Everyone at the table took out their phones and before anyone could even open up their calculator app, a booming godlike voice said, "it's sixteen dollars and forty cents". I turned around and saw an adonis... Michaelangelo couldn't in his wildest dreams have conceived a more perfect male form than that which sat before me nonchalantly tossing small caramel drops into his perfectly formed mouth. I immediately recognized that it was Matt Damon. As we all sat there dumbfounded, he grabbed his mauve lambskin blazer and started walking away. He turned to look at me and said, "10% of 82 is eight point two zero. Double that and it's sixteen point four zero". We all looked at each other and when we turned back to thank him, he was gone. As we sat there, amazed at what we had just seen, we were startled by a knock on the window next to our booth. It was Matt Damon. He was holding a napkin against the window with writing on it that had the equations for our check written on it. He just looked at us with pity and dissapeared into the night.
God I fricking hate being a midwit. Although what I hate even more is realizing how dumb I am to do anything that matters on the grand scale. Why couldn't I just be a genius?
Sorry but math is not a spectator sport, you cant just be good at math because you read books. David Hilbert had a student who dropped math to do poetry; he said it was for the best because he was not creative enough for math. This movie is for pseuds
When I was a kid my dad had me tested for gifted, a lady came to the school and everything. Apparently my IQ was 134 and my dad claimed I would have gotten higher had I not flirted with the test lady so much during a timed test, apparently I was infatuated with her.
Now I take online IQ tests and can barely get 115 on a good day. I've done nothing with my life, I work at a Cabelas part time, I dropped out of both high school and college, and I would be dead if my fat christian girlfriend weren't so co-dependant and allowed me to mooch off of her. I cope by pretending I'm God forced to live out a miserable existence in a flawed shell as a lesson in humility. None of us are going to make it.
God I miss mine. She was perfect in every way but the fat. I just couldn’t stand being seen as the guy who had to settle for a fat chick. Oh and I figured she would balloon before too long, which she did. Still I miss her big soft breasts and those warm cuddles.
Did anybody else have this fantasy when they’re doing a Calc or differential equations class or whatever that you’re just magically amazing at math; you just look at a new problem and you know exactly how to solve it. This is common right?
If you mean the absolute absolute, testing gets super fuzzy. Especially when autism becomes indisinguishable for almost anyone who'd be adminstering the test.
I took one about a decade ago because I was grossly underperforming at school and from those vague memories there was a limited amount of questions to the thing, no? Wouldn't this imply a fixed scoring system?
Not really. From a functional standpoint sure, even 140 ranges still don't have enough internal variance in abilities to not get classified as whatever number is appropriate. But people like that guy who was with Texas Instruments who was functionally mute, good luck getting the exact result with the absolute no one you have to test him against.
I took a IQ test when i was 5 and it was 144. I became doctor now I make 8 figures and I am progressive leaning person. Life is good, my wife's boyfriend takes care of kids all day long and I can spend my time doing whatever I want.
Could you relay to me in layman's terms what it means to be possessed of a gifted intellect? I don't seek answers pertaining to sensing vague abstractions you swear to me are there in-between everyone playing nice in civilization.
I was considered gifted as a wee child because of the way I behaved. It turned out I was just mentally ill. Wonder how many of you self-professed savants are like me
I heard this movie was about an autistic guy who was insanely good at math so the main character turning out to be chad and an butthole was pretty funny.
There are many collectable cars in the world. Some are abandoned, neglected, abused. Others lay pristine in a garage, too afraid to go out. Ultimately, they all share the same purpose: to get from point A to point B. And yet, they go nowhere.
I would have liked to be a genius with numbers, I'm not a complete idiot but I've always been good in the humanistic and sociological fields of study, and honestly there aren't many job opportunities, instead being a god of numbers helps you enormously with several disciplines and opens the doors to the highest paid jobs of our times.
>instead being a god of numbers helps you enormously with several disciplines and opens the doors to the highest paid jobs of our times.
There isn't a single industry that doesn't benefit from having an employee immensely good in mathematics. It's kinda interesting a skill essential to our society's existence is only performable by the gifted few.
>AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOT THE HECKIN SIX FIGURE SALARY JOB OFFERS >I'M GOING INSANE FROM BEING WICKED SMAHT AND BORED THANKS TO THIS STUPID PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY >BAHSTAN N SHEEIITTTT
This movie fricking blows. Le super genius would rather chip shit off of toilets for minimum wage than lazily being some ultra high prestige professor or something. Yeah right.
When people at work have requests and explain things to me, it's hard for me to concentrate on it and provide the solution. When I am working alone on a complex topic and put my mind into it, I somehow do quite well. I am probably mentally moronic or on the autism spectrum but somehow made it through University.
It is pretty much the most beaten-to-death thing in the world, but I was told I was smart from a young age because I could do arbitrary academic bullshit, all of my self worth was rooted to this, and eventually I just burned out in high school and coasted with B's. I went to college for biochemistry and flunked all of my classes because I'd never had to study for anything in my life. I dropped out of school, worked a shit job for 2 years, went back to school for an English degree, finished it without really putting a lot of effort in because reading and writing comes "naturally" to me and it's easy to fake it, and then just ended up working some bullshit office job. I am in my late 20s with nothing to show for it: a depressed, anxious wreck with a drinking problem that can barely hold down a job, and who would just rather disappear at this point. I have some friends but I can't bring myself to connect to anyone in a meaningful way, and my home life was bad, so I'll probably end up killing myself in mid life or something
>smart but lazy
Like 90 percent of people on this site to be honest.
I am a complete fricking loser for example but I was best in 3/4 of last semesters college exams. I still never had a job and will probably fail career wise. I am also barely interested in the stuff anymore.
Man, imagine what you could have looked like, how smart you could be, if the inbreds like Chudchill or americans didn't stop Hitler's ubermensch eugenics programs.
>its another average humans think their better then everyone around them with zero proof or success or ability in anything because at most they were in a “gifted” program at a mid tier public school thread
Im sick of this episode
Its a good thing I don't give a frick. You only need to keep 3 people happy. You, your boss and your landlord. Anyone who is not that can suck my schlong
>he’s smart but le lazy…
ruined a whole generation of men
Definitely agreed. Everyone wants to signal that they’re this amazingly intelligent person who puts in little to no effort.
Im moronic and fat and lazy
don't say that, you're the best there is.
I'll be a winner when i kill myself
>ruined a whole generation of men
that trope has been around since Einstein, zoomie
People who are truly smart realize doing nothing all day is more fun than being a wagecuck scientist.
I'm actually dumb as frick and still subscribe to this mindset.
There's a reason for the low iq/high iq anti-midwit meme.
You don't know what a "wagecuck" is homie
I'm no genius, but I grew up smarter than a lot of the people around me. Smart enough to realize how pointless and vapid and hollow most of modern society is, which robbed me of any drive to "succeed."
Standard excuse. You are a coward.
I just legitimately see no point in riding the hedonic treadmill.
Teenager mindset. Grow up.
What's this "teenager mindset" that's constantly used as a rebuttal to any antagonistic sentiment towards society, etc? In other words, what does it mean (teenager mindset)? Genuinely curious.
Everyone knew about 20 angsty kids in high school with that exact opinion is what is what I think he meant.
>which robbed me of any drive to "succeed."
hahaha I haven't read 1% of the posts ITT but I'm very confident that yours is the gaygiest
Relax gents, we are all one bottle hit away from becoming geniuses.
FIVE TIMES FIVE EQUALS TWENTYFIVE
It's gonna be hilarious if function center probing neurology techniques ever get co-mingled with Looney Toons in an AI and we get incredibly precise head bonk transhumanism
I was like that and I’m never seen the movie.
Smart but lazy has been a thing since formal education, which focuses the curriculum on the lowest common denominator.
I was that way in school. I could get by with Bs and Cs without having to do any homework because I did so well on quizzes and tests, without even studying. It fricked me later in life because I didn't apply myself when there were things I actually needed to do work for (freshman year)
Same. Freshman year fricked me in the ass hard because at that point I never really learned how to properly learn for something.
Less smart but lazy more smart but just having no real reason to give a shit. How are you supposed to fix that sort of person?
But he isn’t lazy at all. Guy works construction all day and spends most of his evenings studying complex subjects.
The movie is more about how growing up in terrible conditions made him completely aimless.
He's not lazy at all. He's not a shitty neet. Will taught himself advanced math and other various topics.
He grew up in a terrible environment and was abused as a young kid.
He's not lazy, he's stupid. Being a janitor takes a whole lot more (grueling) work than coasting on doing stupid 250IQ shit.
I definitely wouldn't call him stupid. He was fricked in the head
>Being a janitor takes a whole lot more (grueling) work
And he took pride in doing that work. He identified with his friends and did the same types of jobs they did.
Peter Parker
I will not tolerate Good Will Hunting slander on my board please delete this thank you.
Noooooo, not my wholesome Robbie Willians, he named his daughter Zelda, he's like me!
I will also not tolerate Robin Williams slander on my board please delete this thank you.
Nah, frick that redditor junkie.
Delete your posts, thank you.
It's a shitty movie you were fooled into thinking is good because it got an Oscar for which Harv paid for.
He's not lazy, he lacks ambition.
He actually reads a lot of books and has a lot of knowledge unlike the lazy people itt whining about how they're secretly genius if they actually tried to be
>UMMM NO YOU CANT HAVE HIGH IQ OR TALENT IM GONNA RUN ON SHEKELBERGS HAMSTER WHEEL AND BECOME A MILLIONAIRE ANYWAY YOULL SEE
cope
Sorry but talent isn't real, but good parenting is.
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Can someone who was designated as gifted in their childhood or adulthood tell me what it's like? I didn't graduate high school and I blame my shitty life on my dull mind.
Be careful with those stories because a ton of completely average people students were told they were gifted incorrectly.
You can coast with very little effort until high school basically but in college you will fall behind fast if you don't put real effort in.
This. Without adderall I would have failed out of college my first semester.
i got made fun of for using big words like patronage, was always younger than my classmates later on, couldn't even legally drink all through college so it was even harder to socialize. wouldn't recommend.
Yeah you're an obvious liar because I've seen plenty of underage kids at ivy league schools that i knew were wicked smaht and still knew how to get fake ids just like any other dumbass underage kid. Go frick yourself.
>obvious liar
do you mean that the things i posted didn't happen? i'm not some MIT hapa homosexual, just a "gifted" midwit
they all end up average by 25
t. waß giftered
I didn't. I was "gifted" then ascended to superintelligence, then hyperintelligence. When that happens you remove yourself from society because the Fallen Earth doesn't deserve your talent. You focus on teaching the salvation of Jesus to anyone within reach and happily await death and the New Earth, where your talents will be put to full use.
>christcuck
>hyperintelligence
lol lmao even
Believe or burn.
Once you ascend you realize those are the only two choices.
We get to pick the wrench
I realized early on I literally didn't have to do anything in school and they couldn't make me do anything and I would pass every grade anyway. I ended up taking a couple weeks in senior year to get my HSED.
It's kind of nice. I can learn anything I want to, people can't lie to me because I remember everything they say that's important and I always know who people are, what they want, and nobody can hide anything from me. I've always been pretty much immediately good at everything. I figure things out, know things, and notice things almost nobody else does to the point where dozens of people make comments about it. Been called a genius and brilliant. I'm even extremely handsome and get cat called, been eye fricked and eye gawked by girls in front of their boyfriends etc etc
My life is garbage. I live in constant emotional and physical pain. I am not happy.
Basically what I'm saying is, it's not your mind that is at fault. A bright mind cannot make a shitty existence into a good one. It will not magically make you succeed. It will not save you from the cruel harshness of reality. That has to come from you, from perseverance, and improving your lot in life however you can and learning to accept who you are, and learning to live life in a healthy constructive way and to be happy and content. That is way more complicated than it sounds, and being smart doesn't teach you to do that. You have to learn the hard way and just do it.
um just use your superior intellect to make your life better, that is unless you're actually a moron..
I think you missed the point of my post
I think we're probably different
supposed to be INTP or something but I was lucky enough to talk to a psyche phd who was kind enough to explain to me that mbti was full of shit
>I am le somber man
i am me, you are you
and you are cringe
I guarantee more than 50% of your assumptions about other people are wrong. I used to think like you and would have written a similarly cringe post.
I too, am INTJ.
Waste of digits on a waste of life NEET that writes too much self aggrandizing shit.
>That has to come from you, from perseverance, and improving your lot in life however you can and learning to accept who you are, and learning to live life in a healthy constructive way and to be happy and content. That is way more complicated than it sounds, and being smart doesn't teach you to do that. You have to learn the hard way and just do it.
reads Nietzsche once.
many such cases
i'm sorry to tell you but you're actually just a moron who thinks he's smart. many such cases. the sooner you accept this, the sooner you can fix yourself.
dunning kruger at work
>I'm even extremely handsome
KEK. Many such cases of NEET homosexuals playing out their fantasies in their head. What an embarrassing post.
When I was in the 6th grade I was given an IQ test and scored 144. Because of this and my math scores, when I entered junior high I was taking 8th grade, then 9th-grade math in 7th grade. I scored a 34 on the ACT.
I didn't go to college, I joined the military and my GT score afforded me a nice MOS. Was known for being smart, and worked under the XO and CO as an E-3, doing a staff sergeant's job. After I left the military I started working for my uncle at his plumbing and heating company as a systems designer.
1 wife, 2 kids, comfy life.
If your parents don’t have money you get a pat on the head for being brighter than the average crayon, and that’s about it. Though army recruiters hounded the frick out of me to join. At least they said they were army. Coulda been spooks for all I know. I did get free college, which was nice. I find a lot of brighter morons on Cinemaphile like me who just act like morons. I can see a scam coming a mile away and seem to notice things many others do not, but that’s about it for usefulness. We don’t live in a merit-based society so it’s not like you’ll get paid better or be presented good opportunities unless you’re a legacy or know somebody. You’re not missing anything, really.
What do you mean by notice things?
Half of the "gifted" people I knew ended up doing nothing. A lot of them use drugs
Because they weren’t “gifted” in the first place.
They were. They were just more intelligent than most of the adults around them, and that's very confusing for a child. Couple that with boredom and social isolation, and you get people seeking any means of escapism possible.
>They were just more intelligent than most of the adults around them
No they really weren’t. I don’t believe it for a second. The story about a bunch of students with very high IQ all becoming complete burn out losers don’t align with reality.
Define "a bunch", because it happens all the time. You've been on a crusade through this whole thread. That's obvious.
What happened to you? Did you score poorly on an IQ test? Did all of your friends get out into advanced classes and you got left behind? Did you have some friends that everyone rightfully acknowledged as being more intelligent than you, but you were a good boy and made sure to study hard and do what you were told? Now you're a midwit, living a midwit's life, trying to lord the product of your obedience over people more intelligent than you? Was it family? An older brother, I'm thinking. Be honest.
You can easily check out the statistics regarding IQ and life outcomes. Quit your dumb psychobabble shit.
Gotcha good, didn't I? Maybe someday you'll win their respect. Keep working hard, we need people like you. Bet you never miss a day of work.
You assume the average adult is intelligent in the first place.
I was told that I was "gifted" when I was in school but then because I was doing really well in all my subjects my parents made me apply to one of those top high schools where literally the top percentage of kids go to. I'm not American so idk if it's the same in America. Anyway, I got into this "prestigious" and "top" high school and I was the dumbest kid in my year. Not only was everyone there ridiculously smart, they were also super motivated to get the highest grades possible, go to the best universities and then go on to work at top companies doing the hardest jobs, it was absolutely unreal how smart some of these people were - math olympiad champions etc. You might imagine "a bunch of nerds who study all the time" and it's true - a lot of them spent quite a bit of time studying, but they were so fricking smart that they could literally learn something in a few hours that would take me days to digest. Some people there were definitely just kids that had insane parents though who forced them to grind non-stop, I saw one kid have a complete meltdown because he scored 92% and not 100% on an exam. I would score like mid 60's sometimes (anything below 45 would be a fail) and people would make fun of me for being a moron. Some of these kids were also like top tier athletes at the same time, others were just super normal people who you would never guess had insane levels of intellect and others were absolute giga autist nerds. The good thing about an environment like this that it really motivates you and helps you focus and study so you do actually improve because you actually feel like you want to be good and the teachers are total experts at teaching their subjects. That being said I realised after like a year or so that I was actually just an average person, completely not gifted in any way, I just got really lucky that I had a good foundation early in school and my parents took a big interest in me and made sure I studied etc.
This. My neighbour when I was a kid went to one of these prestigious/top schools and told me that he's like an average student there, meanwhile even the kids I would have considered "smart" from my class were stupid compared to him. 10 years later he's working in a quant hedge fund and is loaded and when I asked him about going to that kind of school he said you're just super motivated when you're there, but that although everyone said he was "gifted" before he got into that school, he was like an average student there and the top students in those schools were the actual "gifted" ones
>the top students in those schools were the actual "gifted" ones
Seriously curious about what types of jobs people like that do in their future.
Lockheed, Johnson & Johnson, etc
What like aerospace and ChemEng? No, this is describing a level beyond that. Unless they’re exclusively the ones from MIT and CalTech.
I more meant in general, companies that work on worldwide levels, with intense amounts of it being at the government (or evading government) levels. Above that however is literal think tank type work, where if your bent isn't towards deception, you may not really know who you're working for.
I'm the guy from the original post about this and I can tell you that the ones that I still have on social media some are working in quant firms/hedge funds, which might sound like a regular job to you, but I assure you top quants/traders earn millions in bonuses alone. Some have their own startups and one of my friends is a partner at a major law firm also making serious money.
I remember hearing something years ago about how these aunt firms and hedge funds were seriously fricking up human progress by luring so many of these top minds away from fields of science. Imagine if most of the guys on the Manhattan Project had all gone to chase salaries in finance instead...
eternal suffering
alcoholism
Graduated college at 18. Got my PhD at 23.
It's people telling you you're special a lot at ages you should be told the opposite. The only reason I got my shit together was because I met and kept in touch with other kids in my situation, and realized how self-driven they were. They were every bit as socially isolated as I was, but they put 90% of their minds into advancing themselves. I copied what they were doing and found success.
If not for them I would have caved into the loneliness and have been crushed under the albatross of expectations. When you're told you're special 24/7 for years and years and years, even the idea of failure is unfathomable, and when you inevitably slam into it, everything else falls apart. That's where existentialism, drugs, narcissism, and other fricked up shit comes from. It's driven by fear.
Yeah, it's great being told how special and smart you are all the time. Then it becomes an expectation. Then it becomes a label. Then it becomes a prison. And eventually, when you meet people that are even more exceptional than you, it becomes a fat fricking joke.
I mean shit, that's what happens in the movie. Skarsgard's character is a student-fricking hotshot whose life basically goes to shit (as does the life of every other mathematician who runs into Damon) when he realizes that actually no, he wasn't special at all. He was just another asshat.
>Yeah, it's great being told how special and smart you are all the time. Then it becomes an expectation. Then it becomes a label. Then it becomes a prison
Well said and my experience has been similar. Having every professor or employer constantly reinforce how they expect greatness of me is a huge amount of pressure. Just because I can succeed doesn't mean I don't feel stress. Knowing a dozen people are going to be disappointed in me if I score below 85% on an exam is not a fun feeling. I'm not allowed to have bad days because of my intelligence.
>I copied what they were doing and found success.
share with us your secrets anon
PhD in what?
Pretty nice man. Didn’t have to try much in school because I picked everything up quickly. Now I make lots of money. My life is still shit but I bet I can think my way out of that.
It was pretty nice when I was younger. I had an advanced reading level and expansive vocabulary, devouring books like they were nothing. I still enjoy English and reading but I was burned out by age ~12. By fifteen I gave up entirely and dropped out. People still compliment my ability to compose a piece of writing but I procrastinate so much. I wonder if the books were a coping mechanism before the mental illness truly began to set in. I'm depressed, anxious and almost constantly bored and dissatisfied.
people are impressed with how 'smart' I am even though I feel mentally unhinged/moronic. I think it's just because I'm good with numbers and algorithms which most people seem to think is black magic, and they just kind of hand wave away 90% of the sperg aspect because I don't look like sloth from the goonies, also this
I have a 144 IQ, so smarter than most, but not a genius.
As a child one of the things I noticed was that I was the “smart” one pretty quickly even with new groups of kids.
I didn’t hate it. I noticed how fricking stupid most people are pretty early so I never had a large circle of friends.
I’m not a millionaire (although I’m comfortably in the upper middle class) so obviously IQ isn’t everything.
145 IQ is above a genius. IQ is a normal distribution, only 2.2 percent of people have an IQ at or above 130 --which is considered to be a genius-- and only .1% of people have an IQ of 145 or above. To be at that level of intelligence is to be extraordinarily gifted, objectively.
Well I don’t feel like a genius.
I can offer two explanations:
1.) Your IQ test was administered incorrectly and you were given a score vastly inflating your IQ
2.) You simply do not feel like a genius because you do not know what it feels like to be unintelligent.
>You simply do not feel like a genius because you do not know what it feels like to be unintelligent
I am often perplexed by how long it takes my colleagues to accomplish simple tasks, so maybe that is it.
I know my uncle has a IQ of 160 and I do think he is a genius so maybe that colors my perceptions of what a genius is.
>Can someone who was designated as gifted in their childhood or adulthood tell me what it's like?
"Gifted" is so incorrectly applied to children that it's meaningless to your performance academically. AP classes are more a test of focus for a 12yr old than a measure of intelligence. Kids with strict parents of early OCD shine in AP and the truely highly intelligent kids realize their energy is best used elsewhere than grade 7 exams.
There's also no social status as a gifted child either and the AP classes will likely isolate you too. At least the "gifted" young athletes get girls and invited to parties. Nobody except teachers gave a shit that I was exceptional at math. Being gifted as a child is a lot of unreasonable work for your age and no real feelings of being superior to others.
Gifted as an adult is a different story. People of all levels and in all environments praise you constantly. Jobs and schools will trip over themselves to offer you benefits. Girls take especial notice too as high intelligent in adulthood means high paying job and therefore a potential easier life for them.
You also begin to see the initiative structure for socialization much easier. After one brief conversation with someone I can accurately gage their entire personality and how to make them comfortable. On the creepy side, when you're high intelligence it's very easy to manipulate people. You make an immediate presence whenever you enter a social dynamic and people love to hear your perspective on events.
Whatever you say American Psycho
I have never been formally tested but only used some of the more allegedly accurate IQ tests, which scored me at 101-105. I have met some truly intelligent people, but the vastest majority of those that I knew who were sharp and incredibly gifted inevitably fell into eccentric lifestyles of drug abuse, or suicide. Of those I know that are most successful the only truly standout characteristic is drive. Far as I can tell it as a simple peon, the only thing that matters in life with regards to being seen as "a genius" is hard work and dedication. You won't have the same level of intelligence as the truly gifted, but most who have it squander it or are disabled by it.
>the vastest majority of those that I knew who were sharp and incredibly gifted inevitably fell into eccentric lifestyles of drug abuse, or suicide
Where the frick are you people from? Literally all the smart people I knew from school are now doing post-doc research, doing residencies, and becoming professors.
>Literally all the smart people I knew from school are now doing post-doc research, doing residencies, and becoming professors.
Sample bias. You also don't need to have an IQ of 135 to be a doctor. People of high intelligence (we're talking top 2-3%) have a dramatically higher rate of mental health issues. Autism, OCD, anxiety, ADHD, ect. All these issues also dramatically increase the chances of drug abuse.
Nobody really knows why, but the anecdotal explanation for thousands of years is that being high intelligence makes you more aware to the truely horribly state environment and even moreso that no solution exists. It's easier to ignore your deep, existential pain if you're too stupid to multiply three digit numbers.
>which scored me at 101-105
Please tell me as much about yourself as possible. How do you view the world? What interests you? What are you most "out there" beliefs?
I've got an IQ of 140 and every time I have to interact with other people it frustrates me because basic shit that comes to me in 2 seconds takes them 2 hours to work out. I really disagree with the whole "gifted" bullshit, it lulls people into a false sense of security. Personally I think the best schooling system is the asian one where you're judged ruthlessly against your peers and the rest of the country by having your scores posted up on a wall for the whole school year to see after every test, if I'd had that I probably would've been motivated to study to beat everyone else instead of just coasting by on easy As for doing an hour worth of study right before the test.
Honestly, you're not missing anything. I like being smart, but everyone in the midwit bracket is too smart to eat the bugs, but not smart enough to see beyond it.
>everyone in the midwit bracket is too smart to eat the bugs, but not smart enough to see beyond it.
Midwit here, I have two hours, go ahead and explain what's "beyond it"
You know how if you leave a piece of candy out for an ant, it will find it, go nuts, and bring back hundreds of ants so they can carry it home? And then you're forced to murder them all because they came into your kitchen and violated the NAP?
It's like that. I wish I could explain to the ant, don't take the candy, go eat a dead bug and you have a good chance of surviving and proliferation, but the ant can't know this, because his brain is too small and responds to basic signals. The danger of the candy is forever unknowable to the ant.
Hilarious implied sequitur. 8/10, would read again, might steal
>being smart is speed
>the best system is one where you are judged from a shared test with others where the system decide the whole test
the educational system / school is the biggest moron maker
Tests analyze your ability to remember X amount of pointless knowledge that offers zero utility outside of a specialized field and apply logical processes, both things that are useful for making you into a good cog for industry.
Being smart is speed. My brain makes the jumps of logic faster and remembers things quicker, which results in enhanced problem solving. If you're too dumb, it's quite possible that you forget the question before you get to a solution.
>speed
Abstraction as well. If for no other reason than to try to reverse engineer why you've reached an impasse on any given thing.
I consider abstraction to just be an application of speed. If you're thinking through things faster anyway, it makes more sense to check if the problem is valid to begin with because you've got extra time to do that.
It depends on where you are in world. My school year was separated into 6 classes based on test scores each year, if you were in class 1 you were the smartest and if you were in class 6 you were the dumbest. In addition to this, there was a "gifted" program, and about 10 students were in that, you got a gay letter sent home and some dumb extracurricular activity programs.
>class 1 you were the smartest and if you were in class 6 you were the dumbest
that's what i meant by A and B class. the teachers were supposed to stick to "oh it's random!" but eventually word would get out that X class is the smart kids and Y is the tards
>and about 10 students were in that, you got a gay letter sent home and some dumb extracurricular activity programs.
those were just the kids getting molested that had nothing to do with IQ. search your heart you know it to be true
>the teachers were supposed to stick to "oh it's random!"
Again, in my country, they told us. Everybody knew, and if you did shit on the tests at the end of the year, you'd get knocked down a class. Had a buddy who clearly fluked an exam and made it into class 1 for science and he struggled the whole year. Only class that wasn't performance based was gym class, where they put half the kids in 1, and half in 2. But even that was technically based on the time tabling for the rest of the classes, so if you were in class 1, 3 or 5 for some other subject you'd be in class 1 for gym.
The gifted thing was some government program, apparently they scrapped it a while back to allocate the funds for Black folk instead. As far as I remember everyone in it was in class 1, and they were all ugly, myself included.
>The gifted thing was some government program, apparently they scrapped it a while back to allocate the funds for Black folk instead. As far as I remember everyone in it was in class 1, and they were all ugly, myself included.
false memories never happened
When i was in middle school my math teacher told my parents i was mentally moronic. That i would struggle with post-pre-algebra the rest of my life.
I was a druggie in high school and slept through advanced classes. I was eventually expelled for bringing knifes to school and making a bowl in shop class.
Eventually i worked through community college, earning an associates in engineering, then went to a top state university earning a degree in aerospace engineering.
Now im one of the top engineers in the country. I have a wall full of certificates and licensed in over a dozen states. I make 6 figures, own multiple companies and rebut experts in their 60s when im in my 30s.
With all that said, if you dont have the IQ then just quit and live a life full of weed an masturbation. I honestly mean it. I score 157 on the raven matrices test. Its a weight i wish i could let go and just spend the rest of my life as a server/bartender drinking and smoking weed and banging prostitutes.
YMMV
125IQ here so king of midwits but still got told I was gifted at the start of highschool
Spent the rest of highschool and university not studying and coasting by on Cs and Bs. Then find out in university that doing that severely fricks your chances of doing anything other than a bachelors degree.
I now run my own business and work probably 20-30hrs a week and spend the rest writing, playing piano or working out.
Do you make any money?
I started the business only in April last year and in the first year of trading took home 36K into my own pocket from it. I was working another job at the same time though.
Looking at probably finishing at around 54k in the next year, which is less than I was making in my previous job but I'm a frickload happier.
Cool, trading what?
you see people who claim "they were called gifted" are just misremembering things, or exaggerating. or they simply starting identifying with the "le gifted 90s kids" after it became a social media meme.
they never actually had "gifted classes" they sorted kids into A or B groups and some of the teachers were moronic enough to acknowledge that one group is better than the other. the kids came up with the "gifted" thing not the teachers. those same "gifted" kids would probably call mandela effect on this and struggle to find something with the word "gifted" on it from their childhood
I was gifted in Elementary school and graduated Highschool with a 3.9 GPA then got into a halfway decent University. I'd say something people misunderstand is that being smart is like le ebic Tony Stark or Rick Sanchez super powers when it's more like absorbing information fast plus the ability to put things together, atleast for me. That being said, almost anyone can be smart if their parents give a shit when they're children. Most humans are unironic cattle so it's not hard to be in the upper echelon, but it's easy to get demoralized and wonder what you even do it for.
Achieved all my dreams and goals. But I didn’t need a special class to tell me I could be great. You gotta believe you’re somehow like better than god possibly and that fuels a kid to excel in life
>be really smart
>dont actually learn how to learn correctly
>by the time you enter university you are ill equipped to deal with it compared to your peers
>waste of time
Actually smart kids are able to pick up learning skills and habits.
I'm fairly smart but I have ADHD so life is fricking torture. I went to a good school but the first 16 years of my life was a slow and agonizing mindrape of under-stimulating nothingness. I just sat there and fidgeted 99% of the time. I really don't want to medicate but I'm in university right now and my brain is a fricking mess.
Just medicate anon. If you could have behaved your way out of it you probably already would have. Speed will increase your power level.
games, lots of games.
if you weren't gorging yourself on video games in the 90s/2000s then you were a moron, that era of wealth/growth/excitement won't happen again any time soon, if ever. computing was the future.
i rarely studied or did homework, almost failed every class my entire life because i had zero patience to memorize shit id be able to lookup instantly one day
in the end i was right and the system was wrong
i earned 400k this last year doing nothing but writing code, not interested in management
You software gays increase your salary every time you post.
I was told I was moronic until about grade 3 because I didn't want to do the basic simple work they allocated. When I hit grade 3 I was told I had the academic skills of a middle school child. That year I scored the 2nd highest in my class for everything.
Then life fell apart when Dad got cancer, went crazy and died when I was 12. Started skipping school, developed anxiety disorder, panic disorder, depression. I became physically incapable of going to school because when I was there I'd feel physically ill to the point of tears.
Didn't study all the way until about grade 12, and even then I had a mental breakdown before my exams and spent the entire time playing video games. Your mind is dull when it's angry, stressed and emotional, throughout high school I averaged Cs, Bs, skipped assignments and was given the average, etc. Occasionally I'd do exceptionally well, but then I was back to mental illness land shortly after.
Sort of got my shit together now, and getting Distinctions and High Distinctions in university.
But essentially I'm a huge waste of potential, and I'm not sure I'll ever overcome that.
The thing with IQ is sure you get a headstart, but any stupid frick can excel past you if you can't steer yourself in the right direction.
>didn't graduate high school either
>tfw smart but lazy
I played vidya instead of piano and became a mediocre adult, but I got back into piano and made a career out of it in my 20s, but I don't really like it and am just limping along without any passion or drive
>have high IQ
>be smart enough to see that israelites will crush you no matter what you do
>be smart enough to see that being smart just makes you even more of a target
>do nothing
>end up in same place as midwit
Not really in the gifted territory but I was always top 3 in my class. Became a stemcel because I liked Physics. Got into the premier engineering school in my country and realized how moronic I am. Lost all interest in academics. Now I'm in the 15th percentile in my class and I despise engineering in general. My biggest aspiration in life is to find a government job(preferably not in engineering) in a backwater town and essentially disappear.
You'll get 50 replies from people that claim to have IQs <0.1% of people get and the typical misanthrope teenager garbage everyone except them grew out of
You forgot to mention the envy from seething shitheads like
i know a guy albeit a low achieving one. he would show up 20 mins late to exams, zonked out on benzos and ace it every damn time.
Gifted and talented classes in elementary, 140s IQ, coasted through HS and college, now living in Hollywood, early 30s and a pseudo alcoholic writer, 15 spec scripts deep with no sale yet. I can't tell if I'm too smart for this generation of execs or I'm just a hack.
How do you afford that if your shit doesn’t sell
I'm a good waiter
For you
Lol Nolan is one of my heroes. Wish I had a cinema freak brother like he does to bounce ideas off of. I'm a nobody from the midwest out here alone in the heart of darkness (and sunshine).
my best friend was incredibly gifted at pretty much everything, like at the age of 9 he was doing mathematics for a 21 year old in University. The thing was a curse. There was a huge amount of high hopes and pressure put on him, constantly from school and his parents pushing him to transfer elsewhere out of a public education, but he just wanted to be with his friends doing normal things
when it came to University he was offered the best in the country, but declined them all
he suffered from depression and coped with alcoholism as well as other drug use in his early 20's, which often seems the case for people like him
eventually he went to uni, attained a Bachelors in half the usual time and even acquired a large government bursary to ensure he finished it due to being so gifted
hasn't done jack shit with his degree though because he was just never interested in anything academic. Currently a freelance copywriter and wants to be an author
I achieved everything in education through cheating. After school I became a defense contractor to kill people. Now I'm retired.
Don't matter if you actually end up very successful or not, you'll find your job easier than for your stupid normie coworkers. Once you accepted that, you just can work minimum to outperform them and relax.
I realized doing nothing is the best choice, why should I use my intelligence to make the israelites richer.
>Can someone who was designated as gifted in their childhood or adulthood tell me what it's like?
If you think these people hang out here you're even more delusional than I thought you were.
all the gifted kids during middle school and high school turned out better than the rest of the grade
Kek.
Actually how was he so smart? They literally made it like he was born a genius without any Background story. Robin Williams carried this movie
They’re called savants. They exist. Not like Will Hunting for the most part, but more like rainman. The human brain is incredible. Most who are exceptional in some way carry a lot of misery too.
Will Hunting wasn't an idiot savant he was just a lazy genius.
Nothing in the movie suggests he is lazy.
It was more like he was unambicious, not lazy.
Maybe that's why that anon said "not like Will Hunting for the most part".
look at Christopher langan. 195-220 iq came from a poor background . never finished college and worked blue collar jobs his whole life. owns a horse ranch with his wife now
>Christopher langan
That guy's a fricking moron, actually.
>Christopher langan
So he's a moron. Interesting.
>>”He’s amazing at mathematics because ummm HE JUST IS”
Sorry, white man.
He answers the phone at the Chinese takeout restaurant.
He has to know the menu numbers because his mom don't speak the English.
Mathematical theory has been advanced by people who look like Euclid and the israelites who stole the credit.
Did the police let you out of the ghetto project building yet after welding you inside?
>WE... WUZ... GREEKS!!!
This post is definitely made in good faith
>good faith
uh you talk like a gay and your shit's all moronic, and yeah
Things have changed:
3,000 years
multiple world wars
the discovery of an entire hemisphere, which the Polynesians contacted well before you
All you know are superficial tricks. Comprehending the theory to advance knowledge, very few people can do that.
>the Polynesians contacted well before you
lol that's a stretch
When you consider how much of the way we structure modern society is based upon ancient Greece, the dude was pretty spot-on
Go to a greek and tell him he’s not white
He’ll bounce your mong skull off the concrete
Now go back to jacking off to wmaf porn you sad little ricecel
pseudointellectual race bastards never change, they hit the same beats over 2000 years later, across every ethnicity
Yea I hate this fallacy of ‘someone said it 2000 years ago so it must be true’
It’s nonsensical
>they hit the same beats over 2000 years later
Maybe they're on to something
>across every ethnicity
Really?
What did he think of subsaharan africans?
>muscles
>but can't grow a beard
why do I want to frick this guy's ass? it was my first instinct upon looking at this image
same but with black men, whenever I see a fit black man I want to destroy his butthole and make her him screaming like woman lol
there's a scene showing his apartment and all the books he reads frickin moron
>all YA fiction
>”I read 20 books and now I’m the best mathematician in the world”
Non-STEM morons wrote this.
>says man who has never read a book
My entire degree in Applied Mathematics was 6 textbooks for the core information. Yeah, you need to be rather smart for the upper levels of math but you don't need 20 books to learn how to solve PDEs and some group theory problems.
>Applied Mathematics
so engineering but less useful?
Come on little guy, you can do it, little engineer you!
why yes every item in that room is a the result of someone with a real job, an engineer
>Non-STEM morons wrote this.
True geniuses just need books and time, you're an average ingrate
>I fear not the man who read a thousamd books once, but the man who read a single book a thousand times
>I fear not the man who posted Sneed once, but the man who posted Sneed a thousand times
>character is smart because he reads books
you will never be smart
you will never be a woman
you will never be a man
you will never get trips
oh yeah?
bump
what a rebuttal
Sheeeeeit
touche
WITNESSED
Holy shit N-
nice, homiea
No, he reads books because he's wicked smaht.
he's smart ,because he was born with a 156+ iq
I read books constantly and like 80% of the contents disappears from your brain a couple of months after you finish reading it.
Books are weights for the brain
guys really live in apartments like this and don’t see any issue
what a comfy brownstone.
for all ya nerds, they dont have to make him ACHTUALLY SMART, just ffullfill dumb people's idea of what a smart person does,
a wicked smaht person reads books and is good at math and stuff
just to show you - the only book he recommends in this movie is pic related - its what matt damon thinks is smart and also his israelite overlords
People's History is such basic b***h history its hard to take the claims of his genius seriously after he namedrops it.
>Irish flag
nuke Boston
will hunting is... LE GOOD
Upvoted
You need actual talent for advanced math; you can't just read books and get good at it
>you might make money and gain power but I have le based principles in this made up system
it's not your fault
I regret everything
It’s hunting season.
This movie is incredibly depressing.
How so
>good will hunting
>dead poets society
>one hour photo
the robin williams depression trilogy
my boys wicked smaht
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Does Cinemaphile save anything for the swim back?
I just don't swim. I can't be bothered with failure.
We're closer to the other side.
I never watched this. Why didn't he embrace being a genius?
He's just lazy but really enjoys reading math books? But he's also a janitor?
lmao
I'm 27 and I can physically feel myself getting dumber with time
>dude what if i was like really cool and handsome and like, super smart but like, nobody gets me cause i’m so deep y’know?
Fricking gen x
That chalkboard problem was moronic as frick. Like intro level graph theory shit
You can't make it too hard or the normie audience won't be able to follow it.
While I realized as an adult it probably wasn't much the same, as a kid I'd heard about Real Genius's laser weapon having to be changed because the real world CalTech students doing the consult job had accidently built one that might work the first time around and thought it might be that.
God told him the answer, just like Ramanujan
WICKED SMAWT
>You have to slave away doing something you don't want to do because.... YOU JUST HAVE TO OKAY?
WTF?
I was at a restaurant eating, and when I got the check, I was wondering out loud how much 20% of $82 was. Everyone at the table took out their phones and before anyone could even open up their calculator app, a booming godlike voice said, "it's sixteen dollars and forty cents". I turned around and saw an adonis... Michaelangelo couldn't in his wildest dreams have conceived a more perfect male form than that which sat before me nonchalantly tossing small caramel drops into his perfectly formed mouth. I immediately recognized that it was Matt Damon. As we all sat there dumbfounded, he grabbed his mauve lambskin blazer and started walking away. He turned to look at me and said, "10% of 82 is eight point two zero. Double that and it's sixteen point four zero". We all looked at each other and when we turned back to thank him, he was gone. As we sat there, amazed at what we had just seen, we were startled by a knock on the window next to our booth. It was Matt Damon. He was holding a napkin against the window with writing on it that had the equations for our check written on it. He just looked at us with pity and dissapeared into the night.
Underrated
God I fricking hate being a midwit. Although what I hate even more is realizing how dumb I am to do anything that matters on the grand scale. Why couldn't I just be a genius?
Because you're already cursed with self awareness. Increasing your intellect won't salve your suffering, it will amplify it.
he osmosised the shit out of it
Sorry but math is not a spectator sport, you cant just be good at math because you read books. David Hilbert had a student who dropped math to do poetry; he said it was for the best because he was not creative enough for math. This movie is for pseuds
bros I got my phd when I was 15 and now I make a million dollars a day, this is nothing like smart people college is a scam please believe me bros
he was a genius ok?
When I was a kid my dad had me tested for gifted, a lady came to the school and everything. Apparently my IQ was 134 and my dad claimed I would have gotten higher had I not flirted with the test lady so much during a timed test, apparently I was infatuated with her.
Now I take online IQ tests and can barely get 115 on a good day. I've done nothing with my life, I work at a Cabelas part time, I dropped out of both high school and college, and I would be dead if my fat christian girlfriend weren't so co-dependant and allowed me to mooch off of her. I cope by pretending I'm God forced to live out a miserable existence in a flawed shell as a lesson in humility. None of us are going to make it.
This has got to be the most embarrassing post I have ever read on this website by a large margin.
how did Tony not get seasick here? those were some serious waves rocking that boat
the weight of his fat rolls keep the food from coming back up
>I'm practicing to write fiction in my head and refusing to do anything with it
It's lower than 115
But I'm shit at writing, what do you gays want from me
Give your gf more appreciation.
Fat christian girls are bro-tier.
God I miss mine. She was perfect in every way but the fat. I just couldn’t stand being seen as the guy who had to settle for a fat chick. Oh and I figured she would balloon before too long, which she did. Still I miss her big soft breasts and those warm cuddles.
Did anybody else have this fantasy when they’re doing a Calc or differential equations class or whatever that you’re just magically amazing at math; you just look at a new problem and you know exactly how to solve it. This is common right?
That's a ridiculous question, the graphs are not even necessary, the correct answer is "10".
he said that he learned everything he did with a library pass
so hes a brainlet. just regurgitating info like wikipedia. what a dumbass
that doesn't really apply in the case of mathematics, which is what he got recognized for
thats literally mathamatics. your not discovering or learning anything new, your just "discovering" things that already exist.
It's funny because it looks like he is doing basic tree theory which is taught in Discrete Mathematics 101.
bros how many points is the 100% equivalent of IQ?
If you mean the absolute absolute, testing gets super fuzzy. Especially when autism becomes indisinguishable for almost anyone who'd be adminstering the test.
I took one about a decade ago because I was grossly underperforming at school and from those vague memories there was a limited amount of questions to the thing, no? Wouldn't this imply a fixed scoring system?
Not really. From a functional standpoint sure, even 140 ranges still don't have enough internal variance in abilities to not get classified as whatever number is appropriate. But people like that guy who was with Texas Instruments who was functionally mute, good luck getting the exact result with the absolute no one you have to test him against.
I took a IQ test when i was 5 and it was 144. I became doctor now I make 8 figures and I am progressive leaning person. Life is good, my wife's boyfriend takes care of kids all day long and I can spend my time doing whatever I want.
lmao back when you could make jokes like that and people would know it's just comedy
ITT anons pretending they're Light Yagami
I'm not made of light idiot lmao
chances are you've at some point made use of radio waves. you move at light speed. you're light.
Could you relay to me in layman's terms what it means to be possessed of a gifted intellect? I don't seek answers pertaining to sensing vague abstractions you swear to me are there in-between everyone playing nice in civilization.
I was considered gifted as a wee child because of the way I behaved. It turned out I was just mentally ill. Wonder how many of you self-professed savants are like me
I heard this movie was about an autistic guy who was insanely good at math so the main character turning out to be chad and an butthole was pretty funny.
>pic related is supposed to be a genius
>ascribes to string theory
>this dude hasn't even seen 11th dimensional strings before
They came to me in a dream.
Sheldon is 100% Accurate thougg, super mega sperg who only cares about science and my little pony.
There are many collectable cars in the world. Some are abandoned, neglected, abused. Others lay pristine in a garage, too afraid to go out. Ultimately, they all share the same purpose: to get from point A to point B. And yet, they go nowhere.
OP is moronic: The Post
I would have liked to be a genius with numbers, I'm not a complete idiot but I've always been good in the humanistic and sociological fields of study, and honestly there aren't many job opportunities, instead being a god of numbers helps you enormously with several disciplines and opens the doors to the highest paid jobs of our times.
>instead being a god of numbers helps you enormously with several disciplines and opens the doors to the highest paid jobs of our times.
There isn't a single industry that doesn't benefit from having an employee immensely good in mathematics. It's kinda interesting a skill essential to our society's existence is only performable by the gifted few.
>give an inexperienced mentally ill moron a weapon
>call it a gift
>shocked and disappointed that he keeps hurting himself and others with it
Good Will Smith
Where's his origin story?????????
>AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOT THE HECKIN SIX FIGURE SALARY JOB OFFERS
>I'M GOING INSANE FROM BEING WICKED SMAHT AND BORED THANKS TO THIS STUPID PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY
>BAHSTAN N SHEEIITTTT
he's a redditor's idea of what an intelligent person is. kinda like tony stark or BBC sherlock
Yeah, that's how savants work, homosexual.
imagine if he directed the movie t-
i haven't watched this but i know intelligence is 80% inheritable, geniuses are born, not made
This movie fricking blows. Le super genius would rather chip shit off of toilets for minimum wage than lazily being some ultra high prestige professor or something. Yeah right.
Some people just are
Cope
>t. First Year grad student who just finished reading some Mahxian historian
When people at work have requests and explain things to me, it's hard for me to concentrate on it and provide the solution. When I am working alone on a complex topic and put my mind into it, I somehow do quite well. I am probably mentally moronic or on the autism spectrum but somehow made it through University.
>im le smart but only when alone
Suuure
It is pretty much the most beaten-to-death thing in the world, but I was told I was smart from a young age because I could do arbitrary academic bullshit, all of my self worth was rooted to this, and eventually I just burned out in high school and coasted with B's. I went to college for biochemistry and flunked all of my classes because I'd never had to study for anything in my life. I dropped out of school, worked a shit job for 2 years, went back to school for an English degree, finished it without really putting a lot of effort in because reading and writing comes "naturally" to me and it's easy to fake it, and then just ended up working some bullshit office job. I am in my late 20s with nothing to show for it: a depressed, anxious wreck with a drinking problem that can barely hold down a job, and who would just rather disappear at this point. I have some friends but I can't bring myself to connect to anyone in a meaningful way, and my home life was bad, so I'll probably end up killing myself in mid life or something
Just do it already. Circuncised golem. Deny the state your tax dollars.
>smart but lazy
Like 90 percent of people on this site to be honest.
I am a complete fricking loser for example but I was best in 3/4 of last semesters college exams. I still never had a job and will probably fail career wise. I am also barely interested in the stuff anymore.
IQ is overrated.
Moderately intelligent person car run circles around literal genius is he/she works hard.
frankly even dumb people can run circles around them. One of my friends isn't very sharp but makes ~250k a year as a real estate agent
It's like an incel fantasy and not even a good one.
Man, imagine what you could have looked like, how smart you could be, if the inbreds like Chudchill or americans didn't stop Hitler's ubermensch eugenics programs.
>trading one israeli overload for another
No thanks Hitler's world sounds like I have to work.
>its another average humans think their better then everyone around them with zero proof or success or ability in anything because at most they were in a “gifted” program at a mid tier public school thread
Im sick of this episode
have you actually met people? most people are not actively thinking
I can guarantee most people also think your a literal braindead moron in your own life.
Its a good thing I don't give a frick. You only need to keep 3 people happy. You, your boss and your landlord. Anyone who is not that can suck my schlong
O k
>its another average humans think their better then
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