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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 got accepted into Mensa, which wouldn't give a score. From internet tests, I might have an IQ of 140, though I really don't know how reliable they are.
I did learn to read and write at four, and I was always enthusiastic about learning as a kid, but since then have shown nothing special academically. I'm in a very prestigous engineering program right now, but am having a hard time just passing my classes.
I think in a scattered manner most of the time. Usually, I'm just daydreaming. Not a good thing for engineering.
As for talents, I have an internal BS detector that can sense flaws in a person's argument pretty easily. Usually, I find that people are partially right in their opinions but make key mistakes in their assumptions. I wouldn't even consider this a talent, except that so few people seem to have this. Just look at politics to see what I mean.
Also, any time I do something, my brain will replay it over and over again. Especially if my unconscious senses that I did something incorrectly. If I did do something wrong, it'll eventually come to me. Or, if I'm anticipating something in the future, my brain will automatically play out every possible scenario that it can think of.
And finally, if I'm faced with a problem that I care about, I'll just obsess over it until ideas come to me.
Do the rest of you have these traits?
And something that disturbs me is that I really have no concrete idea as to what intelligence is and what IQ tests mean.