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Originally Posted by zpivat  I'm very interested in anything related to intelligence, and to those of you who know you have a high (i.e: 130 or higher) IQ (or at least have been regularly labelled so by your peers), I wonder how you think? How do you analyze information or situations? Are you almost always able to think quickly, solve problems quickly, understand things quickly? Do you think in a visual or abstract way?
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i'm not comfortable sharing my actual IQ from when i was last tested, but it fits the 130+ requirement.
i guess i think in abstract terms, i think about how things relate, i make connections. i've spoken up in class based on these connections and i've learned that well over half the people have no idea what i am talking about, and are confused by how i got from theory Z to fibonacci (fictional example). i can analyze things too much, but i'm better at catching myself than i used to be. i am currently in a program where the partial goal is indoctrination. i am smart enough to simply pretend i'm being indoctrinated, but i don't like how it feels to pretend.
i'm a fairly nonlinear thinker, and i like it that way. linear is boring
i'm not sure i can explain 'how' i analyze things, it just happens and it happens pretty quickly. it's like i first discard the useless info, run through potentials, and then pick one, but it usually takes much less time than it took to type that. i also know enough about human behavior to recognize certain patterns and make an educated guess at motivations. this is usually right, and sometimes i recognize the pattern before the other person realizes it's there.
i find there are certain types of things that i need more time to understand, primarily those topics that i find uninteresting. management is an example, chemistry and financial investment are others. i guess it's a matter of being right-brained by nature, which makes me have to work harder to understand more left-brained topics. (you can probably tell from how i answered that i'm more right-brained, since i skipped around instead of flowing with the same order as the OP.)
also, i'll say i think it is incredibly unbalanced to be so intellectual, at least that was my own experience and the experience of others i've met. now i am not as much in my head, more in my heart, and i like this much better. also, and others who have posted will likely agree, there is such a thing as too smart. it can create problems for social interactions when we're in school, it can have an alienating effect (if we are in school with those who have other types of intelligence), it can annoy people (such as teachers) if we answer too quickly... my point is, like anything, there are cons as well as pros.