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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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My IQ is 145, and I usually operate out of a fear mentality ("if I do X, the result could be Y, but it could also be Z---and Z would not be good for me"). This has the benefit of allowing me to make good decisions based on a sort of primal, survival instinct. So when it comes to matters of survival, I'm very good. When it comes to everything else, I try to make it about survival best I can ("if this project isn't creative enough, I won't make the most money I possibly can, which means my chances of survival won't be as great"). I would definitely say I'm able to think, solve, and understand quickly. But some things you can't possibly understand until you experience, so life and time kind of keep me on my toes. I definitely think in a visual/abstract way most of the time. I feel like that's the most important tool I've got to enhance my intelligence and understanding, but at the same time, it alienates me from most of the world. For example, most of my friends think I should get a "real" job, because that's what normal kids do in America. But considering none of them work for any other reason than to buy clothes and gadgets and increase their credit limits (oh, fools!), I see no real benefit in exchanging my limited time on this earth for an easier way of collecting material possessions. I visualize my life as an adventure, a journey, and the work that I do is meaningful to myself, and to many other people on their own separate journeys. Obviously that's not the best example of visual or abstract thinking, but it's a hard concept to explain without sounding completely batshit crazy.