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Originally Posted by openeyes  That paragraph sums up my experience fairly well.
No one in my family has an IQ below 130, and some of us score significantly higher than that, with each of us being fairly eccentric. Particularly, none of the men fit into the mainstream. We have our own ways of doing things which we deem more efficient for our particular uses, and feel little need to bow to the party line.
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I have recently read in my AP Psyk. book that IQ is genetically influenced as they have found that if both parents, per say, have an IQ greater than 130 the child will almost always have a higher IQ or around 130 range even if that child is raised with the "dumbest" parents.
on my act i recently got 24. in my calc or other math classes i understand the concept and can recreate better than anyone and work my butt of for it. still, my mind doesn't click and some of my friends who don't study at all, get better grades than me and i ask them how they do it and they cant explain squat. me, on the other hand take a long time to figure out the problem.
either way, our mind makes up for it in other talents as i can teach better than any of the kids in my school, well at least i have not found a person who can teach better. on the other hand though, i am very perceptive of how people behave and can easily manifest feeling in them, its helps when making friends or pickin up girls
and doing business
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"The older I get, the more I value common sense, which certainly does not always correlate to high IQ."
i seen similar things like this throughout the topic and i would like to suggest all of you, if you have time, pick up a psychology text book and read it. especially, since all of you are conscious people i think you may find it quite useful as it sums up a lot philosophy from stevepavlina.com as well as a lot of new age stuff and even religion.
simple things like hindsight bias, if you don't know i highly suggest you look it up, can effect how you thinks and you might even have a little epiphany like i did.
also, if anybody has read a book where it points out core concepts that occur in every day life like when you try to figure a problem you look at it, then determine what it is and what need to be done and what can u do and ect. please tell me. why relearn everything if someone already has it figured out?
thanks