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Originally Posted by tefaroko  I have been tested numerous times and my average is somewhere around or slightly above 175.
Far from ever, EVER bragging about this fact, I lament it. I can't speak for everyone with an above-average IQ, but personally my thinking is not anything I would wish on anyone else. I analyze, reanalyze, and reanalyze the results of the first and second analysis.
Dark thoughts can, and do at times, pervade my mind. Nothing violent mind you, just frightening ideas of my own limitations. Which, intellectually, I realize is ridiculous to be saying having just told you I have a genius-level IQ.
Bottom line: It's not all its cracked up to be. Everyone else looks at you as if you can do anything, but you know all-too-well all of your limitations. |
i was just saying this yesterday. i analyze everything, and even the most wonderful event i could analyze and have dark thoughts creep in until in my mind i completely screwed everything up (in this case it is a girl that i know shares the feeling that our time spent together was awesome, but just a couplle weeks of not talking to her and her not returning a call just makes me wonder and worry etc).
also, being incredibly intelligent (this is not boasting, it is just an honest statement, and anyways its not anything to be proud of really as i was born with this and did not work for it), i find that i dont study hard or work very hard and i get a's and b's without trying. i know people that arent as smart as me who get perfect gpa's and try their absolute hardest. that is so much more an important lesson than not trying and being basically given a good grade.
its a blessing and a curse really. i guess i just need to turn that curse part into motivation to use my blessing to the absolute best of my ability. and i am doing this, it jsut takes some time for me to get used to it.