Nah Orangelo, many parties are fun. I mean when everyone's strangers? Fucking obviously you're right. But otherwise? Hell no, that's not true at all. Great channel though, I've watched your videos.
GCGNATOR CATS I like the things you don't with a small group of friends and family, not a bunch of drunk retards. I think it's called being introverted. I understand why you don't like those things, but try it with people where the door swings both ways.
My son is very smart. Somewhere above 140. I've watched him grow to adulthood, now married with children. He's pretty happy. I don't think he, and most people really are all that sad about their social life because hanging out with a bunch of "average" people, who get excited about sports doesn't really interest him at all. He enjoys his own pursuits. He had his little fellowship in HS and College and was quite happy with that. Truly smart people don't care if their social life is not what is typical. Its not a competition.
I don't consider myself very smart. Just smart enough to learn from others. Learning to be content with yourself is tough as nails for many I think, it was for me. Thankfully I decided to find a reason bigger than the fleeting intense loneliness, I think this is why there is a link between intelligence and depression and suicide. Hang in there guys
If all this is true, then loneliness is our inevitable end. If so, we must learn to be content with ourselves and not fall prey to the negative feelings of loneliness.
+The Black Introvert + how do you dumb down? have you tried it? did it work? catch-22 here: if it worked and you're dumb now, why would i take advice from you?
Combat Bananas I agree, that you shouldnt dumb yourself down, but the solution i found, which improved my social life to a great extend is act like you have an IQ of 115 around other people. Also if you prioritize associating in terms of your weaknesses rather than your strenghts, you can find equals. I chose dancing and sports for that, because in that things your intellect doesnt play a role. Its just practice. In terms of intellectual discussions you would grab the short stick with those people, but there is the internet, where you can find people for that. Regarding that i made the best experiences, when getting to know people over chess platforms, because they often have general interest in high level discussion (especially high level players).
I related to this video! 137, in school there were many to associate with, RW not so much. I felt the loss, I could not have children, so even my younger siblings with children are distant and do things without me, and that truly hurts. My saving grace is my fiancé, he has a 167 iq, speaks three languages and we travel the world. He could not have children either.
Last couple of years I am only hanging out with "proletarians". At least they don't act as if they are the smartest people in the room while saying the most retarded shit ever. And they don't give a shit about social justice norms. With "normal" people all they seem to talk about is how they are eating free range meat and want to become vegetarians or how stupid Trump is. With my "prole" friends we can have discussions about stuff till we are almost screaming at each other and they don't think we are having a fight, while with the "normal" people they tend to see a tough discussion as some sort of traumatic friendship ending fight. They also seem to be way more accepting of people, if they like you. I have never spend a night drinking and smoking with the parents of a "normal" friend and had fun with them like they were just a couple of friends, with my "prole" friend's parents they drink with my like I am one of THEIR friends, not just the friend of their son. They can be a little too violent for my taste, I have to make sure who I am going out with cause some of those types LOVE to fight while going out, and I don't want any of that. But then again even though I am against such needless and stupid violence it is a lot cooler and interesting than talking about how green food coloring is bad for your thyroid after seeing some boring arthouse movie.
Trump is not stupid, he is talking and acting the way he is because he has to cater to the average population. And all the politicians' lies are stupid, yet the average "proletarians" cannot detect them... but you are the one to complain when Trump doesn't package his speech in deceit
I never did figure out why people get so excited about sports, I dont really see how it benefits me when some rich millionaires score a point for their team and I dont see why they should get paid so much for playing sports that your average high school student could play for just as long and do it for fun instead of for profit. I would rather do something more entertaining like explore a fantasy world in a video game like Skyrim, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, etc or do something relaxing like fishing, aquaphonics, or other survival skills but it seems that the majority of the people dont relate to these things.
Some people enjoy sports for the sense of comradery, while others might enjoy the strategic elements that often operate in the shadows but are vitally important to the success of a team
Video Games are no better. They are basically an alternative for sports (they do televised gaming tournaments now). I don't see much of the big deal for these hobbies either (at least as I go older). Personally, I just place my attendance to reading books, they're entertaining and informative.
@@infamouscrusader3363 Nah it's quite different. Video games alot massive amounts of new and exciting things. Whereas sports are basically the same every game
It is refreshing to notice how most comments to this and related videos show good grammar, correct spelling and even proper diction. If you read the posts to most RUclips subjects you immediately find yourself treading water in a sea of illiteracy. There's some kind of selection going on here.
This guy has an IQ fetish. As someone who has been involved in the field of cognitive science, I can tell you IQ is quite outdated, and they are getting close to introducing more intricate theories of how the brain works. This is starting somewhat off the wrong foot with, so to speak, "Dual Process" theories, but somewhat modulated with mental model theory, and models of creativity. It is plainly obvious to anyone who isn't indulging in the IQ delusion, that not everyone with a 123 IQ is going to become a Richard Feynman, or having a 150 IQ does not guarantee that you are going to solve a world class problem. That level of achievement reflect underlying processes that are more important to intelligence proper, (and sometimes as mundane as things like motivation and curiosity) than IQ - which is merely a glorified short term memory test.
IQ doesnt directly correlate with success or achievements. There are smart people who are very lazy for whatever reason. Though Aaron is correct when he says that smart people have a difficult time socializing with others. It isnt easy.
You don't need to be surrounded by intellectual titans to have a good social life. Shared goals, sense of humour and values are the glue that sustain most friendships.
a person dumber than you will never share these, the same goals as you lmfao, the requirements you just cited are all linked and dependant on fucking intelligence
When you realize 98% of your already few contacts in social media are nothing to you (not real friends, nothing to share), just people you relate for study/work... i really needed to heard this. Thank you Aaron.
If these kids are so smart why can't they figure out to just not act so smart? Every time I met one of these so called "high iq kids" they always just had an aura around them that they just think they are better than everybody else and it makes them unlikable little jerks. Also if they are so smart why don't they learn how to fight, that takes brains to do well?
That's part of the problem. If you're always putting up a fake front around people, concealing who you really are, not only is it exhausting to do so, it's incredibly isolating and increases your sense of loneliness. You're also not being stimulated in a way that makes most people really excited, happy or content to be with people they really connect with. It also makes you less likely to go out and socialize in the future (bad experiences, exhaustion). There's the other part where people who act like you make smart people feel bad about themselves just for being born. They didn't ask to be born that way.
I do that. I went through all my school, never did homework at home never studied unless i was interested in the subject, generally buggered about but always managed to get B plus A minus passes in everything. I limit my vocabulary when talking to people. Prefer to spend time alone, never get bored or lonely. Have an answer for just about anything. Have a good memory, just at my age sometimes it takes a bit to find stored information. But if its in there I always know. Numbers, faces , general knowledge, facts etc Iq 154, age 54.
I've never even met a person my age which doesn't enjoy sportsball, smoking, drinking, and cheap sex, nor someone which wouldn't throw somebody else under the bus just for a laugh, much less an intelectual equal. I live in a country with an average iq of 80 while having an iq of 145-150 and I never even had someone I can trust much less friends.
I'd guess another variable for social life is intellectual homogenity. Intellectual heterogenity is less common, thus, individuals of average, but heterogenous intellectual profile, will have a hard time relating with their peers.
Yeah, this is true. Happened to me last year in college. My friends are just simply not interested in extending conversation with me. I cared about this entirely too much at the time and got extremely depressed at the time. Just get comfortable with being alone. I moved to a single apartment and limited my contact with the people that were my "friends." The key to finding and maintaining friends is just to simply not need them to be happy (much like anything else). I'd much rather be in my apartment watching a lecture from the Mises Institute on monetary theory than at a bar with people I won't likely know in 10 years. Now I find I'm much more comfortable in social situations and Im even being contacted more than I ever was to hang out with people. Sure, this might be explained by the law of supply ... but the point stands. I dont know why people are so bent on making friends or being socially hip. Its not even fun, nor is it very healthy. Living your life just to receive the approval of others? Its nothing more than a lesser version of suicide. Yet its a path so many of the sheep seem to go down. Who's going to take the path less traveled?
I read and focus on learning new things. When u meet someone on your level, it's like a breath of fresh air. However it can turn into a contest, seeing who knows more.
If you narrow down LIFE to 'social life' you get what you get - an unfulfilling substitute at the expense of the thing itself. LIFE. Treasure it. Place it first, or well before 'social life' anyways, unless you want to lose it all chasing the ghosts that everyone else is chasing while remaining unfulfilled. You don't need a social life - it is a waste of time(unless it is not), but you do need a life, being and feeling alive, why waste the most precious thing? 'Social life' is the aim and purpose of those that know nothing of life, how to fit yourself into it, or how to live it. It is made into an all-important thing, while being nothing of the sort.
In federal prison camp I was with more very high IQ than any other time of my life. E.g., my bridge partner was a neurosurgeon, my bunkie was a multimillionaire investor, our dining hall table had several doctors and lawyers. Now I've been out several years but I miss those guys. It's a part of prison that I actually miss.
This video gave me a lot of insight. I’m 20 and about to graduate with a computer science degree. I graduated high school early and commuted to college and spent my Fridays and Saturdays coding and studying. My last friend that I still talk to just got a girl pregnant (yes at 20 years old and yes it was an accident) so I don’t think I’ll be seeing much more of him.
I never saw myself as uniquely intelligent or incredibly smart, but at the end of high school I learned that my IQ was 2 deviations and 6 points above average. I became an autodidact and continued learning what I sucked at but it's been a year since I've seen my friends or been out.
It's not the same as a human but it's better than nothing. Sometimes, I imagine my spare pillow to be a pet rabbit, fox, or a wife. It's a good sleeping Aid.
a pseudointellectual is someone dishonestly or insincerely using the language, style, or topics of an intellectual, but who lacks the goals, morals, or ability of a “genuine” intellectual. It is someone who acts pretentiously and wishes to win an argument or impress, rather than modestly trying to find the truth - a focus on surface and rhetoric over content. These often involve a superficial understanding of a subject and condescension to the audience, as well as possible self-delusion (not being consciously dishonest, but rather sincerely thinking oneself to be behaving as a genuine intellectual despite one's incompetence).
nigga when i read this shit you sound like you're projecting, or i don't know what. It's like I read these words and they seem like fuel for people's egos to discredit other people even though they're idiots using words. Like I don't know, so it could be possible you could be making a real distinction here it's just you haven't explained very much of it. That's the thing dumb people do (I feel so free in Aaron Clarey's comment section, like I can just frankly talk about what dumb people do), man they always project (sorry but if i'm being honest... my gut is just that you're dumb from this comment, it's really interesting to me because i can't exactly pin point it, and it's really really mean to tell someone they're dumb (even though smart people wouldn't think it's mean if someone called them dumb, because smart people are different).... but whatever it's the internet, it's anonymous, and i'm starting to trust myself and my gut impressions after finding out i have a high IQ. Your comment sounds like the typical thing dumb people with egos do--say a bunch of words why people that agree with them are "genuine" intellectuals and anyone else just "acts pretentiously" or "lacks the ability of a genuine intellectual". I think it's the "lacks the ability of a genuine intellectual" part that really gets me... I can just imagine some idiot who thinks that anyone who disagrees with him in an argument lacks the ability of a genuine intellectual. .... Why even make this comment? Maybe I haven't encountered enough pretentious pseudointellectuals on the internet, there's a lot of the internet I don't pay attention to. I'm thinking so much about this one comment, sorry it's late as fuck
I am reading your book at the moment and I had some doubt at the beginning. I understand everyone need to be able to read the book but I was worried it was just another recipe book. But when you mentioned the curse of Casandra I knew you were legit. I still find it slow to develop but you're obviously talking from experience.
God made me an introvert and loner, and doctors would diagnose me as autistic... God made me work from within, I am content to focus on myself most of the time and not worry about what others think. Thank you God
My social life has been subsidized by work since I'm an engineer and have the opportunities to have conversations that are actually interesting. Not all of them are that smart, mind you, but enough of them are.
Same if you're smart and want to make friends past college become an engineer and join an engineering firm or become an engineering professor at college or become a research scientist in a grad school.
You sir, are fucking amazing. Please excuse me while I worship you as my new false messiah for explaining to me all my past, present, and future tribulations as a barely-sub-genius-IQ graduate student.
@Transcendental Outcast thats why they are so poor most immigrants to honduras are asian (nearly all chinese) jewish and arab immigrants and they are all doing fine ! in fact the wealthiest man in honduras is an immigrant from pakistan the wealthiest man in haiti is a syrian jew his father came with little opened a textile factory and now his son is a billionaire
1. IQ does not mean its difficult to find and make friends. Its not really that difficult to meet and an socialize with people with an average IQ. Smart people will often learn about a great deal of topics and usually one or more common topics can be found to discuss with average people. 2. The issue I find is not finding the time to socialize enough. I often get in grossed in too many interests which limits my time to socialize. Since I am always busy I never feel lonely, depressed, or bored. There is always something to learn or something to do. 3. There is this thing called the "Internet" which bridges vast distances and enables you to find people to discuss with on "any" topic you can possible imagine. In fact I spend a lot of time listen to pod casts of smart and interesting people daily usually while working on other stuff. 4. As a young kid it was some awkward for me. I was picked on in grade school, but by late middle school I was able to turn the tide, by learning to conform to what was deemed as appropriate behavior among my age group. I played sports (which is good for you anyway instead of glued to a computer all day), I went to parties, and other social events. My college years was probably the best for socializing, as I made friends at all levels, from jocks to science post grads. After college, work dominated my time and limited my time to socialize while I buildup my career and skills. 5 Don't discount socializing people with average IQ. There is still a great deal you can lean from them. Many people will have knowledge that a one point or another in your life will be useful. For instance I just bought a large property and I am planning on building a home. I become excessively interested in home design, carpentry, plumbing, HVAC, etc. All these people involved in home design/construction have become the most interesting people that I wish to socialize with. They have vastly greater knowledge on these topics than I ever will. Maybe the average Joe sitting next to you does have something important to teach you. All these blue collar professionals have working knowledge that can be applied in your own life. I am sure most Average people will also have interesting stories or event so share if you willing to listen. The bottom line: only you can determine how far you can socialize and make friends. Consider that its pretty stupid to be miserable because you refuse to socialize with anyone of average IQ.
Particularly when responding to a topic like "This", You should Proof Read and learn "when" to use quotation marks and Capitalize Letters along with proper Grammer, spelling, and other in grossing tools.
I would rather spend more time alone or with few friends and still get to climb Kilimanjaro. 124 IQ, dont know if thats too smart or what but anytime I have a relationship I start missing my solitude and independence. Well, guess I´ll choose adventure over anything.
How do you define too many? can i say you are one too many? Also who says what is quality or not, and lets say your thesis is correct, what if the kid you birth creates something that does improve the life of billions?
dyingalive Dude I don't want to get into that, cuz it will be just me sharing an opinion already shared before many times. Do some research into overpopulation and just don't believe that "there is limitless resources" nonsense. I just gave you an example for what is more important than breeding even more people. I don't even agree with your premise that humans are the most important thing.
Thank you for your response. No insult intended in what follows. There aren't unlimited resources, and I have researched population. Don't just believe this 'peak resource' nonsense either. We are unlikely to be using the same resources in 100 years as we are today. I was basing that initial question on what Aaron Clarey often says, which i do not personally disagree with much... Just curious as to where he stopped on the not creating some on his own. I'll add here that I do concede that there are false incentives possibly leading to not as optimal or realistic reproduction patterns right now. You decided to answer with material you are now not willing to defend (don't have to but im not a subscriber or follower to you so no idea what you've said before). Material which already infers that you do not consider humans to e the most important. Your example does not have anything to do with not creating another life, as that life could also be one that reduces population and helps current lives. It can actually be a means to what you say is more important.
dyingalive Well, the "material" is just the opinion that we have reached or even gone beyond what one species should use as resource and you are already familiar with that and I wan't implying that I have written it before. FYI we are using so much of the planet's resources that species have started dying off because of it, not because of pollution. As for reproduction. A life that reduces population would be a mass murderer. Also what kind of careless person would bring a life into this world with the muslim invasion, the self-destruction of the white world through feminism and overpopulation. I think that thinking human life is the most important is personal human bias. Ideas are the most important things, ones that don't destroy society, but improve it instead.
Let me not go into essay or ese mode......... The point is that you take a young girl and put her beside any man. That man looks like a winner and not a loser. Give him a house big normal sized apartment with big view and some seed money he looks like a winner. art exibit/musuems = boring pretty girl = woww eeee jezzibell expensive toy = is this person a proffessional Reality that is not a winner. You can not pretend. The truth is that people want you to not live and either be a dumb one year old or senile fifty year old. The truth is that your not uncoot your just into something that is not hold an interest to that person at that point in time.
This makes some sense but the premise that if there were no schools they would not meet is flawed. If there were no schools as there are, there likely wouldn't be the property taxes of which schools are a main excuse for. Now if there was a sort of governing system that did not require property taxes or run schools, people would still need education. Especially intelligent people. They would find better ways to do so, and those parents would send their kids there and they would meet that way. Regardless the kids, being intelligent could learn to socialize in a less adverse environment and later on in life (which we would assume would be less coercive than the one we have now) would find like minded people and create the friendships which i do agree are key for happiness and health.
Yes, that is a good litmus test for the intellectual canyon. Dumber people are more reactionary and don't engage in deep thought, so the conversations are going to be centered more so around describing events that they've simply experienced. More intelligent people are able to engage in the abstract and tie seemingly unrelated ideas together and utilizing inductive reasoning. Going to the extreme here, most living organisms only ever have reactionary behavior because their sole drive is survival; most of their behavior is going to be instinctual. Intellect is more about analyzing the situation.
Not necessarily. How do you "learn" to interact with people? It's really just a natural skill. Some people are just better and savvier at it than others.
Well... Cheers to the author for waking up one day and enjoying the biggest bowl of self pity... ever. One, difference in IQ doesn't necessitate segregation. Two, what many people see as high IQ, isn't really as 'rare' as it's portrayed to be. Hell, I'm black, and supposedly the the average African-American IQ is 85 (trash stat but thats another conversation) while I had a perfect score on the Mensa exam (I have no clue what my IQ is, but lets just say 135); yet I have no issues finding people to talk to among my cohort. I run into people often who are my equal or better cognitively. Top 2% isn't rare; top 1% isn't very rare either. Bored people are boring. Friendless people aren't friendly. Now, if you have an IQ of say... 160 or higher, well life's just gonna be tough, you freak!!! LOL!
I literally have to dumb down my intelligence just to get along with people.....
Fuck yeah dude
Don't do it. Just speak them to confusion so that they can slowly learn what you are saying to them.
it doesnt matter if their stupid just speak in plain baby language and they will get it.
Same here
It's hard on me. It feels condescending, but at the same time the blank stares when they don't understand me is also hard.
Why do people like partying? Getting drunk i get but I've always preferred hanging out with small groups.
What Aku said. Guys like parties because they want to get laid and girls like parties because they want attention.
Nah Orangelo, many parties are fun. I mean when everyone's strangers? Fucking obviously you're right. But otherwise? Hell no, that's not true at all. Great channel though, I've watched your videos.
GCGNATOR CATS I like the things you don't with a small group of friends and family, not a bunch of drunk retards. I think it's called being introverted. I understand why you don't like those things, but try it with people where the door swings both ways.
GCGNATOR CATS I still party sometimes but the novelty sure as hell is wearing off
So have I.
I think this is why most ppl are presumed introverts. It's not that they don't WANT to be more social, ppl just aren't equip to socialize with them.
It sucks
It's awful. Often when I speak to people I feel like they don't fully understand me or don't care.
Well that was depressingly accurate.
My son is very smart. Somewhere above 140. I've watched him grow to adulthood, now married with children. He's pretty happy. I don't think he, and most people really are all that sad about their social life because hanging out with a bunch of "average" people, who get excited about sports doesn't really interest him at all. He enjoys his own pursuits. He had his little fellowship in HS and College and was quite happy with that. Truly smart people don't care if their social life is not what is typical. Its not a competition.
I don't consider myself very smart. Just smart enough to learn from others. Learning to be content with yourself is tough as nails for many I think, it was for me.
Thankfully I decided to find a reason bigger than the fleeting intense loneliness, I think this is why there is a link between intelligence and depression and suicide.
Hang in there guys
100%
Well said
If all this is true, then loneliness is our inevitable end. If so, we must learn to be content with ourselves and not fall prey to the negative feelings of loneliness.
either that or dumb yourself down
+The Black Introvert + how do you dumb down? have you tried it? did it work? catch-22 here: if it worked and you're dumb now, why would i take advice from you?
Lady Catfish it was all along
I tried to medicate and dumb myself down... Didn't work.
Combat Bananas
I agree, that you shouldnt dumb yourself down, but the solution i found, which improved my social life to a great extend is act like you have an IQ of 115 around other people. Also if you prioritize associating in terms of your weaknesses rather than your strenghts, you can find equals. I chose dancing and sports for that, because in that things your intellect doesnt play a role. Its just practice. In terms of intellectual discussions you would grab the short stick with those people, but there is the internet, where you can find people for that.
Regarding that i made the best experiences, when getting to know people over chess platforms, because they often have general interest in high level discussion (especially high level players).
I related to this video! 137, in school there were many to associate with, RW not so much. I felt the loss, I could not have children, so even my younger siblings with children are distant and do things without me, and that truly hurts.
My saving grace is my fiancé, he has a 167 iq, speaks three languages and we travel the world. He could not have children either.
Last couple of years I am only hanging out with "proletarians". At least they don't act as if they are the smartest people in the room while saying the most retarded shit ever. And they don't give a shit about social justice norms. With "normal" people all they seem to talk about is how they are eating free range meat and want to become vegetarians or how stupid Trump is.
With my "prole" friends we can have discussions about stuff till we are almost screaming at each other and they don't think we are having a fight, while with the "normal" people they tend to see a tough discussion as some sort of traumatic friendship ending fight.
They also seem to be way more accepting of people, if they like you. I have never spend a night drinking and smoking with the parents of a "normal" friend and had fun with them like they were just a couple of friends, with my "prole" friend's parents they drink with my like I am one of THEIR friends, not just the friend of their son.
They can be a little too violent for my taste, I have to make sure who I am going out with cause some of those types LOVE to fight while going out, and I don't want any of that. But then again even though I am against such needless and stupid violence it is a lot cooler and interesting than talking about how green food coloring is bad for your thyroid after seeing some boring arthouse movie.
Trump is not stupid, he is talking and acting the way he is because he has to cater to the average population. And all the politicians' lies are stupid, yet the average "proletarians" cannot detect them... but you are the one to complain when Trump doesn't package his speech in deceit
why-me?? please read my comment instead of scanning it for triggering words.
I never did figure out why people get so excited about sports, I dont really see how it benefits me when some rich millionaires score a point for their team and I dont see why they should get paid so much for playing sports that your average high school student could play for just as long and do it for fun instead of for profit. I would rather do something more entertaining like explore a fantasy world in a video game like Skyrim, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, etc or do something relaxing like fishing, aquaphonics, or other survival skills but it seems that the majority of the people dont relate to these things.
Some people enjoy sports for the sense of comradery, while others might enjoy the strategic elements that often operate in the shadows but are vitally important to the success of a team
Video Games are no better. They are basically an alternative for sports (they do televised gaming tournaments now). I don't see much of the big deal for these hobbies either (at least as I go older). Personally, I just place my attendance to reading books, they're entertaining and informative.
Join the club
@@infamouscrusader3363 Nah it's quite different. Video games alot massive amounts of new and exciting things. Whereas sports are basically the same every game
@@catcat5564 Video Games are literally no different. 6-8 hrs playing a story while spending quantitative amounts of time and money for pleasure.
It is refreshing to notice how most comments to this and related videos show good grammar, correct spelling and even proper diction. If you read the posts to most RUclips subjects you immediately find yourself treading water in a sea of illiteracy.
There's some kind of selection going on here.
What an accurate observation yeah i noticed it too wherein every scroll in the comment.section feels like discovering something new
hahahahahahaha some are drowning in that sea
Welcome to the proper comment section (no grammar police needed).
I just pretend to be dumb.
Projection; you're pretending to be sexy.
***** Stupid, ugly _and_ nasty. I swear some people have it all and others just have nothing.
***** Almost two weeks and all you could come up with is more projection?
fake it till u make it
Kombaiyashii youre not alone
At the end of the day, you have to be comfortable with yourself. Loneliness is inevitable for everyone, and most don’t know how to deal with it.
This guy has an IQ fetish. As someone who has been involved in the field of cognitive science, I can tell you IQ is quite outdated, and they are getting close to introducing more intricate theories of how the brain works. This is starting somewhat off the wrong foot with, so to speak, "Dual Process" theories, but somewhat modulated with mental model theory, and models of creativity. It is plainly obvious to anyone who isn't indulging in the IQ delusion, that not everyone with a 123 IQ is going to become a Richard Feynman, or having a 150 IQ does not guarantee that you are going to solve a world class problem. That level of achievement reflect underlying processes that are more important to intelligence proper, (and sometimes as mundane as things like motivation and curiosity) than IQ - which is merely a glorified short term memory test.
OOOOOOHHHHH.....YEAH TWENTY MOTIVATED MONKEYS TRYING TO COME UP WITH BEAUTIFUL POEMS . IQ isnt everything but it does help to have it
IQ doesnt directly correlate with success or achievements. There are smart people who are very lazy for whatever reason. Though Aaron is correct when he says that smart people have a difficult time socializing with others. It isnt easy.
You don't need to be surrounded by intellectual titans to have a good social life. Shared goals, sense of humour and values are the glue that sustain most friendships.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoring
a person dumber than you will never share these, the same goals as you lmfao, the requirements you just cited are all linked and dependant on fucking intelligence
When you realize 98% of your already few contacts in social media are nothing to you (not real friends, nothing to share), just people you relate for study/work... i really needed to heard this. Thank you Aaron.
If these kids are so smart why can't they figure out to just not act so smart? Every time I met one of these so called "high iq kids" they always just had an aura around them that they just think they are better than everybody else and it makes them unlikable little jerks. Also if they are so smart why don't they learn how to fight, that takes brains to do well?
That's part of the problem. If you're always putting up a fake front around people, concealing who you really are, not only is it exhausting to do so, it's incredibly isolating and increases your sense of loneliness. You're also not being stimulated in a way that makes most people really excited, happy or content to be with people they really connect with. It also makes you less likely to go out and socialize in the future (bad experiences, exhaustion).
There's the other part where people who act like you make smart people feel bad about themselves just for being born. They didn't ask to be born that way.
I do that. I went through all my school, never did homework at home never studied unless i was interested in the subject, generally buggered about but always managed to get B plus A minus passes in everything. I limit my vocabulary when talking to people. Prefer to spend time alone, never get bored or lonely. Have an answer for just about anything. Have a good memory, just at my age sometimes it takes a bit to find stored information. But if its in there I always know. Numbers, faces , general knowledge, facts etc
Iq 154, age 54.
I've never even met a person my age which doesn't enjoy sportsball, smoking, drinking, and cheap sex, nor someone which wouldn't throw somebody else under the bus just for a laugh, much less an intelectual equal.
I live in a country with an average iq of 80 while having an iq of 145-150 and I never even had someone I can trust much less friends.
if you want to have a happy life, you got to force yourself into doing new things
I'd guess another variable for social life is intellectual homogenity. Intellectual heterogenity is less common, thus, individuals of average, but heterogenous intellectual profile, will have a hard time relating with their peers.
Way to go, Cappy, you're becoming, by each day, a more impressive blogger. Cheers*
I don't relate. I consider myself very high IQ and never had any friends in high school, and even less in college.
Yeah, this is true. Happened to me last year in college. My friends are just simply not interested in extending conversation with me. I cared about this entirely too much at the time and got extremely depressed at the time.
Just get comfortable with being alone. I moved to a single apartment and limited my contact with the people that were my "friends." The key to finding and maintaining friends is just to simply not need them to be happy (much like anything else). I'd much rather be in my apartment watching a lecture from the Mises Institute on monetary theory than at a bar with people I won't likely know in 10 years. Now I find I'm much more comfortable in social situations and Im even being contacted more than I ever was to hang out with people. Sure, this might be explained by the law of supply ... but the point stands. I dont know why people are so bent on making friends or being socially hip. Its not even fun, nor is it very healthy.
Living your life just to receive the approval of others? Its nothing more than a lesser version of suicide. Yet its a path so many of the sheep seem to go down. Who's going to take the path less traveled?
Ooh!! an audio version exists! Definitely buying this!
I read and focus on learning new things. When u meet someone on your level, it's like a breath of fresh air. However it can turn into a contest, seeing who knows more.
If you narrow down LIFE to 'social life' you get what you get - an unfulfilling substitute at the expense of the thing itself. LIFE. Treasure it. Place it first, or well before 'social life' anyways, unless you want to lose it all chasing the ghosts that everyone else is chasing while remaining unfulfilled. You don't need a social life - it is a waste of time(unless it is not), but you do need a life, being and feeling alive, why waste the most precious thing? 'Social life' is the aim and purpose of those that know nothing of life, how to fit yourself into it, or how to live it. It is made into an all-important thing, while being nothing of the sort.
In federal prison camp I was with more very high IQ than any other time of my life. E.g., my bridge partner was a neurosurgeon, my bunkie was a multimillionaire investor, our dining hall table had several doctors and lawyers. Now I've been out several years but I miss those guys. It's a part of prison that I actually miss.
Sounds like fun did you guys ever take a boat over to the girls camp across the pond and do a panty raid?
Moving away from my hometown really killed my social life. I feel like I have nothing in common with people here.
It is best to go into solitary. This is the best way to avoid a world around you that makes absolutely no sense.
Good stuff
This video gave me a lot of insight. I’m 20 and about to graduate with a computer science degree. I graduated high school early and commuted to college and spent my Fridays and Saturdays coding and studying. My last friend that I still talk to just got a girl pregnant (yes at 20 years old and yes it was an accident) so I don’t think I’ll be seeing much more of him.
I never saw myself as uniquely intelligent or incredibly smart, but at the end of high school I learned that my IQ was 2 deviations and 6 points above average. I became an autodidact and continued learning what I sucked at but it's been a year since I've seen my friends or been out.
get a dog
Much safer and more reliable than a wife
it goes both ways, dogs are better than people overall
and music instruments and get GOD
It's not the same as a human but it's better than nothing. Sometimes, I imagine my spare pillow to be a pet rabbit, fox, or a wife. It's a good sleeping Aid.
Ya im four standard deviations above normal. I have ever only had one friend and they died last year from a seizure. Please someone end my suffering.
a pseudointellectual is someone dishonestly or insincerely using
the language, style, or topics of an intellectual, but who lacks the
goals, morals, or ability of a “genuine” intellectual. It is someone who
acts pretentiously and wishes to win an argument or impress, rather
than modestly trying to find the truth - a focus on surface and rhetoric
over content. These often involve a superficial understanding of a
subject and condescension to the audience, as well as possible
self-delusion (not being consciously dishonest, but rather sincerely
thinking oneself to be behaving as a genuine intellectual despite one's
incompetence).
you would have to be kind of smart to figure out that you are really stupid
+jgrh 64 hahahahhahahahahahhahahhaha
nigga when i read this shit you sound like you're projecting, or i don't know what. It's like I read these words and they seem like fuel for people's egos to discredit other people even though they're idiots using words. Like I don't know, so it could be possible you could be making a real distinction here it's just you haven't explained very much of it. That's the thing dumb people do (I feel so free in Aaron Clarey's comment section, like I can just frankly talk about what dumb people do), man they always project (sorry but if i'm being honest... my gut is just that you're dumb from this comment, it's really interesting to me because i can't exactly pin point it, and it's really really mean to tell someone they're dumb (even though smart people wouldn't think it's mean if someone called them dumb, because smart people are different).... but whatever it's the internet, it's anonymous, and i'm starting to trust myself and my gut impressions after finding out i have a high IQ.
Your comment sounds like the typical thing dumb people with egos do--say a bunch of words why people that agree with them are "genuine" intellectuals and anyone else just "acts pretentiously" or "lacks the ability of a genuine intellectual". I think it's the "lacks the ability of a genuine intellectual" part that really gets me... I can just imagine some idiot who thinks that anyone who disagrees with him in an argument lacks the ability of a genuine intellectual. .... Why even make this comment? Maybe I haven't encountered enough pretentious pseudointellectuals on the internet, there's a lot of the internet I don't pay attention to. I'm thinking so much about this one comment, sorry it's late as fuck
I am reading your book at the moment and I had some doubt at the beginning. I understand everyone need to be able to read the book but I was worried it was just another recipe book. But when you mentioned the curse of Casandra I knew you were legit. I still find it slow to develop but you're obviously talking from experience.
Thanks for having no sound for the first 10 seconds so I don't know if my speakers are working or not
I always thought I was stupid until I reached adulthood 😂
Enjoy your college years, smart people...😒
This is depressing, I feel that i did everything wrong...
Excellent information
God made me an introvert and loner, and doctors would diagnose me as autistic... God made me work from within, I am content to focus on myself most of the time and not worry about what others think. Thank you God
Request: please explain what is wrong with today's educational system in the U.S
My social life has been subsidized by work since I'm an engineer and have the opportunities to have conversations that are actually interesting. Not all of them are that smart, mind you, but enough of them are.
Same if you're smart and want to make friends past college become an engineer and join an engineering firm or become an engineering professor at college or become a research scientist in a grad school.
Once people get married and have kids the friendships are over - by: Aaron Clarey.
You sir, are fucking amazing. Please excuse me while I worship you as my new false messiah for explaining to me all my past, present, and future tribulations as a barely-sub-genius-IQ graduate student.
It's even worse when your an intellectual that despises other intellectuals for disliking things like sports.
my iq is 130^140 and when i travel to low iq countries...
oh its painful
you need alot of patience
which i seldom do
@Transcendental Outcast thats why they are so poor
most immigrants to honduras are
asian (nearly all chinese)
jewish and arab immigrants
and they are all doing fine !
in fact the wealthiest man in honduras
is an immigrant from pakistan
the wealthiest man in haiti is a syrian jew
his father came with little
opened a textile factory and now his son
is a billionaire
@Transcendental Outcast average iq honduras 80
guatemala 79
1. IQ does not mean its difficult to find and make friends. Its not really that difficult to meet and an socialize with people with an average IQ. Smart people will often learn about a great deal of topics and usually one or more common topics can be found to discuss with average people.
2. The issue I find is not finding the time to socialize enough. I often get in grossed in too many interests which limits my time to socialize. Since I am always busy I never feel lonely, depressed, or bored. There is always something to learn or something to do.
3. There is this thing called the "Internet" which bridges vast distances and enables you to find people to discuss with on "any" topic you can possible imagine. In fact I spend a lot of time listen to pod casts of smart and interesting people daily usually while working on other stuff.
4. As a young kid it was some awkward for me. I was picked on in grade school, but by late middle school I was able to turn the tide, by learning to conform to what was deemed as appropriate behavior among my age group. I played sports (which is good for you anyway instead of glued to a computer all day), I went to parties, and other social events. My college years was probably the best for socializing, as I made friends at all levels, from jocks to science post grads. After college, work dominated my time and limited my time to socialize while I buildup my career and skills.
5 Don't discount socializing people with average IQ. There is still a great deal you can lean from them. Many people will have knowledge that a one point or another in your life will be useful. For instance I just bought a large property and I am planning on building a home. I become excessively interested in home design, carpentry, plumbing, HVAC, etc. All these people involved in home design/construction have become the most interesting people that I wish to socialize with. They have vastly greater knowledge on these topics than I ever will. Maybe the average Joe sitting next to you does have something important to teach you. All these blue collar professionals have working knowledge that can be applied in your own life. I am sure most Average people will also have interesting stories or event so share if you willing to listen.
The bottom line: only you can determine how far you can socialize and make friends. Consider that its pretty stupid to be miserable because you refuse to socialize with anyone of average IQ.
Guy Tech Not really, I don't want to befriend a bunch of idiot man-children.
lol ikr +CR33SIVE honestly average IQ people are interested in insane things. we live in an insane world haha. but..... that's the challenge!
Particularly when responding to a topic like "This", You should Proof Read and learn "when" to use quotation marks and Capitalize Letters along with proper Grammer, spelling, and other in grossing tools.
I would rather spend more time alone or with few friends and still get to climb Kilimanjaro. 124 IQ, dont know if thats too smart or what but anytime I have a relationship I start missing my solitude and independence. Well, guess I´ll choose adventure over anything.
Is that fluid IQ?
This really happened to me. But It took 10 years to pull out of the nose dive.
Humans are the most important thing in life, then what would be more important or worthwhile than making other humans?
Improving the quality of life of the way too many already existing people.
How do you define too many? can i say you are one too many? Also who says what is quality or not, and lets say your thesis is correct, what if the kid you birth creates something that does improve the life of billions?
dyingalive Dude I don't want to get into that, cuz it will be just me sharing an opinion already shared before many times. Do some research into overpopulation and just don't believe that "there is limitless resources" nonsense. I just gave you an example for what is more important than breeding even more people. I don't even agree with your premise that humans are the most important thing.
Thank you for your response. No insult intended in what follows.
There aren't unlimited resources, and I have researched population. Don't just believe this 'peak resource' nonsense either. We are unlikely to be using the same resources in 100 years as we are today. I was basing that initial question on what Aaron Clarey often says, which i do not personally disagree with much... Just curious as to where he stopped on the not creating some on his own. I'll add here that I do concede that there are false incentives possibly leading to not as optimal or realistic reproduction patterns right now. You decided to answer with material you are now not willing to defend (don't have to but im not a subscriber or follower to you so no idea what you've said before). Material which already infers that you do not consider humans to e the most important. Your example does not have anything to do with not creating another life, as that life could also be one that reduces population and helps current lives. It can actually be a means to what you say is more important.
dyingalive Well, the "material" is just the opinion that we have reached or even gone beyond what one species should use as resource and you are already familiar with that and I wan't implying that I have written it before. FYI we are using so much of the planet's resources that species have started dying off because of it, not because of pollution.
As for reproduction. A life that reduces population would be a mass murderer. Also what kind of careless person would bring a life into this world with the muslim invasion, the self-destruction of the white world through feminism and overpopulation.
I think that thinking human life is the most important is personal human bias. Ideas are the most important things, ones that don't destroy society, but improve it instead.
Considering I have no idea what one standard deviation above/below 100 is, I'm wondering what my I.Q. is. And why does't this guy just say what it is?
A standard deviation is 15 points
Someone pompous enough to worry about it would already know.
Let me not go into essay or ese mode.........
The point is that you take a young girl and put her beside any man. That man looks like a winner and not a loser. Give him a house big normal sized apartment with big view and some seed money he looks like a winner.
art exibit/musuems = boring
pretty girl = woww eeee jezzibell
expensive toy = is this person a proffessional
Reality that is not a winner. You can not pretend. The truth is that people want you to not live and either be a dumb one year old or senile fifty year old.
The truth is that your not uncoot your just into something that is not hold an interest to that person at that point in time.
This makes some sense but the premise that if there were no schools they would not meet is flawed. If there were no schools as there are, there likely wouldn't be the property taxes of which schools are a main excuse for. Now if there was a sort of governing system that did not require property taxes or run schools, people would still need education. Especially intelligent people. They would find better ways to do so, and those parents would send their kids there and they would meet that way. Regardless the kids, being intelligent could learn to socialize in a less adverse environment and later on in life (which we would assume would be less coercive than the one we have now) would find like minded people and create the friendships which i do agree are key for happiness and health.
All true, but none of this is exclusive to high iq folk. This is literally the story of my life, however I'm sure my iq is average at best 😂
^^^ 145 IQ. You are SO right!
Have u guys noticed “dumber” people tend to talk about what happened or do banta meanwhile smarter thinking people discuss ideas and abstract thoughts
Yes, that is a good litmus test for the intellectual canyon. Dumber people are more reactionary and don't engage in deep thought, so the conversations are going to be centered more so around describing events that they've simply experienced. More intelligent people are able to engage in the abstract and tie seemingly unrelated ideas together and utilizing inductive reasoning. Going to the extreme here, most living organisms only ever have reactionary behavior because their sole drive is survival; most of their behavior is going to be instinctual. Intellect is more about analyzing the situation.
if you were truly smart you'd learn how to interact with different kinds of people.
how do you interact with people who always say profanities like *** this *** that... you cannot really learn things from these people...
why-me?? Sometimes you can, look past that and see what you can learn. Like some info or something they know you don't.
Not necessarily. How do you "learn" to interact with people? It's really just a natural skill. Some people are just better and savvier at it than others.
Constant variable? LOL.
swingy stick...high iq and lonliness correlate ...
because they know its all a,game,and tired of playing.
Well... Cheers to the author for waking up one day and enjoying the biggest bowl of self pity... ever. One, difference in IQ doesn't necessitate segregation. Two, what many people see as high IQ, isn't really as 'rare' as it's portrayed to be. Hell, I'm black, and supposedly the the average African-American IQ is 85 (trash stat but thats another conversation) while I had a perfect score on the Mensa exam (I have no clue what my IQ is, but lets just say 135); yet I have no issues finding people to talk to among my cohort. I run into people often who are my equal or better cognitively. Top 2% isn't rare; top 1% isn't very rare either. Bored people are boring. Friendless people aren't friendly. Now, if you have an IQ of say... 160 or higher, well life's just gonna be tough, you freak!!! LOL!
my social life sucks because I'm a NUT-case,....even my dog thinks I'm crazy!! -(lol)
oh,yea...don't mistake "smart" with "clever",....I AM more "clever" than 3 PhD's and a Master of Law. ( think about it)
+Daniel Hawkins. hint:" free $$$"
That makes Sheldon in the BBT a low IQed person xD
I am in this picture and I don't like it
Is Aaron using a voice changer or is this a different narrator?
Narrator I think. If he used a voice changer he would sound like Darth Vader
this dude jst telling u what u want to hear
maybe so, any ideas?
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