What's it feel to have an IQ of 150+?

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Aquarians

I was born in a Transylvanian village where for the first 10 years of my life the most advanced piece of high-tech I had access to was this WW2 thing: a manually operated crank phone:

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Linking us through a 15 km wire to the nearest manually operated telephone switch.

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Having grown amongst stupid peasants (also known as hillbillies), I understand this as a fundamental truth "The best predictor of professional success isn’t cognitive performance, it’s whether your parents have money’": https://english.elpais.com/science-...ance-its-whether-your-parents-have-money.html

So, 150+ guys. How was it on your end? Where do you come from? Where do you want to go tomorrow? What do yo do in ensuring the world goes in that direction?
 
Aquarians said:
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So, 150+ guys. Where do you want to go tomorrow? What do yo do in ensuring the world goes in that direction?
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All I do with my inferior IQ is point out, with video analogy, the fashion in which really smart people sometimes give in to vanity and haughtiness by thinking they are better than everyone else. Like Reggie in this classic Star Trek:TNG clip. Look at the smugness on his face at the end.


Aquarians, you are Reggie in that clip. You are not wearing it well.
 
There's a saying in Romanian: "God gives but doesn't fill your purse".

Having a high IQ is a blessing in the sense that it doesn't hold you back but that's it. On your death bed, along with countless "blessed" underachievers, you can't even invoke the excuse that you couldn't do it. Because there's literally nothing at the current level of humanity that you couldn't grasp.

Lemme tell you how high IQ works on individual level (my case included):

1) Although they might whine a lot these persons are usually not destitute. I myself make a high Western Europe income while living in the 3x-10x cheaper Eastern Europe. Objectively it pays to have a high IQ, problem is we're not satisfied with it.

2) The reason these guys want the World and Beyond probably stems in their higher level of conscience which is simultaneously a blessing compared to the vast majority of people who'd be more than happy to achieve #1. And a curse, I have much higher demands from this life. That anything below being a billionaire and thus having the capacity to dispatch those funds, would fail to provide.

Anywayza, after 15+ years of unsuccessfully trying to make a breakthrough through trading and getting KO-ed countless times only to pick up my leftovers from the dust, train some more and launch another attack followed by another one bites the dust, I'm putting an end to this line of attack.

See, when I started with trading I was 20 years younger and a lot less knowledgeable. As a 20-something, there's two ideas to make money based on the skill level you have: make some dating app (like Facebook if you're lucky) or make a kill in trading.

None of these work due to basically competing with 1 billion youngsters bringing their ruthless ferocity to the table in order to compensate for the lack of skill and perspective.

So at 45, I've realized I've got other, much higher probability and lower effort options to become a billionaire. See you in 2-3 years when I'll tell you how this went.

In the meantime I leave the "getting rich by trading" effort to my fellow stupid youngsters. Charge on!

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I knew a guy who was above 150...He became a ditch tender. He was on his own most of the time. He had to communicate with farmers and coworkers, but much of his time was doing his job. His son in elementary school, was at a high school level in 6th grade. The teacher had him learn to ride his bike on the playground, while other kids worked on their studies.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...aredWindow=0&usg=AOvVaw0uyxPUuYEUTY7yRudqIgTR

Was thinking of the Herman Hesse book "Siddhartha"...Finding simplicity in the flow of a river.

Another thought comes to mind...The movie "Crossing Delancey". Could you fall in love with a pickle salesman??

 
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