wrt the "3" people who claim mensa in this thread. since 135 is 2% of the population then i cant see why 3 out of all the views is unreasonable. in fact its just about spot on.
Hans Eysenck said, "the fact that you are interested in the concept of IQ means you probably have an above average IQ; dumb people are rarely interested in the concept. With that in mind, it's likely that people contributing to this thread are fairly intelligent. And it's not absurd to think there are a few in the 130+ range.
Maybe the problem is you have a low EQ...I know people that are very smart but they are clueless in social situations and cannot read physical clues and emotions on other people, therefore they are not very employable because they cant get along with other people...is that your problem. I think they call it Aspergers Syndrome.
Sure there are very intelligent people that aren't socially inept;
however, when there is an IQ difference of 20 points, people sometimes have difficulty relating to their "peers".
A man with an IQ of 100 will probably not be able to relate to someone with an IQ of 84 - unless they're female.
Each person would probably recognise that they are operating on a different level, and have wildly different interest.
When people find their 'level', those that were formally considered introverted show themselves to be as gregarious as anyone else,
within that circle of people.
Malcolm Gladwell discussed this on Charlie Rose when promoting Outliers. Its possible that incredibly intelligent people are much too aware of the sacrifice that it takes to achieve great heights, therefore they figure that the risk outweighs the reward. A lot of great success stems from incredible tenacity bordering on insanity. Some people just aren't down for that regardless of how smart they are. Also, incredibly intelligent people can be incredibly indecisive. I know I am, ha.
That all rings as true to me.
I've known highly successful, very intelligent people (family members); they live stressed, boring lives, raising children like everyone else.
They aren't changing the world; they're collecting more expensive versions of the material goods everyone in the 1st world has.
And now, they aren't even doing that; I-Phones are set to sell at Walmart for 99 dollars. So why pay for pussy when the pussy is free eh?
It reminds me of the symbolism behind the old Andy Warhol soup can paintings: the subject becomes surreal, because it's so universal;
everyone from the rich to the poor has eaten that soup : ) Well fuck, everyone from the punk on the street to the man in office will have an I-Phone.
We're achieving a form of socialism through capitalism, ironically. Everything is coming full circle.
With such an outlook on life (and you can't
not analyse), you feel stuck in a state of stagnation.
I could already read and write in kindergarten and I was always tasked with helping other kids. They didn't allow me to skip grades, but they did allow me to go to higher grade levels during reading and math. Later, I tested nationally in the 97th percentile on the Iowa test (some of my verbal scores were almost off the page lol), and subsequent IQ testing placed me in the gifted magnet program.
School was easy for me, but I started becoming a fuck-up.
I started as a nerd and became a bad kid. I was depressed all the time, and they suspended me from school for fighting during high school. I never went back. I think an unstable home contributed to my downward spiral. When your living situation could radically change any day, everything seems ephemeral and unimportant. I was drinking daily, or otherwise using heavy doses of DXM on a regular basis.
I was even exhibiting symptoms of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome from the alcohol abuse.
But now I see what the future holds.
The future is in genetic engineering.
This will effect everything. When we evolve ourselves, everything else evolve much faster.
Humanity is set to mimic
Moore's law. And then racism will end, disease will end, and war will end. Why?
Because there will only be one genetically engineered race, and eventually, one cloned man. This one man will have duplicates as needed,
and machines will do most of the grunt work. It will happen because it is the natural progression of things. I will help bring this to fruition.
im obsessed with this because I have worked for brilliant Ivy Leaguers with high IQ's and I have worked for Joe Schmoes and I can tell you the IVy Leaguers can really make things happen. They solve problems quickly and efficiently and it rubs off on the whole office and everything runs smoother and everyone is way more happy. THey are not petty, emotional and do not care about power plays or blaming others...it is way more civilized.
That definitely rings true. When you are working with intelligent people everything runs smoothly like a machine.
Everyone naturally knows their role within the system; efficiency is more important than power plays.
Now imagine if everyone had an Iq of 125 or more;
the real result would be a more efficient, enjoyable society.
You could actually go places and not feel like a human being amidst a pack of animals.
That would be the real effect of such a change: civility. Not to mention, overall productivity would skyrocket.
When intelligence increases, the power of the ego diminishes, and awareness is expanded to encompass a greater portion of reality.
At this juncture, ego is reduced to an intellectual concept - understood as a tool of self-preservation, however, not necessarily innate.
That is the driving force of minds - union with the divine ground. The seat of awareness will extend beyond that which relates only to the body,
and that which minds previously deemed superfluous will become omnipresent.
In it's final stage of evolution, it's near perfect union with the divine ground, and last bit of self-conceptualisation, will force the universal mind to dissolve itself -resulting in reversion to singularity.
It's cyclical.
