I have a reasonably high IQ, and I don't feel smart. I pick up on some things easily, other things I struggle with.
It's more that a lot of other people seem very stupid.
What is something you are able to do that you know is because of your intelligence -- the proverbial 1,000 pound deadlift of the brain, if you will.
Pattern recognition and seeing how issues connect, I suppose. But I don't think of that as an innate consequence of intelligence, I tend to think that most people simply refuse to do it. It's not that they can't think, it's that they don't. Which is frustrating.
To be clear, the really frustrating part is realizing how stupid the supposedly "smart" members of society are. The ones who are convinced of their own infallible intellect. The midwits.
Stupidity isn't the problem. Dumb people can be smart. The problem is the veneration we as a society have for people who are utterly ill-equipped to be making any sort of meaningful decisions, whether because they're innately stupid or simply refuse to use their brains correctly.
The people who are smart enough to feel smart, but not smart enough to be smart are the true retards of society. And they are the cause of a great many of its issues.
I have a reasonably high IQ, and I don't feel smart. I pick up on some things easily, other things I struggle with.
It's more that a lot of other people seem very stupid.
Pattern recognition and seeing how issues connect, I suppose. But I don't think of that as an innate consequence of intelligence, I tend to think that most people simply refuse to do it. It's not that they can't think, it's that they don't. Which is frustrating.
To be clear, the really frustrating part is realizing how stupid the supposedly "smart" members of society are. The ones who are convinced of their own infallible intellect. The midwits.
Stupidity isn't the problem. Dumb people can be smart. The problem is the veneration we as a society have for people who are utterly ill-equipped to be making any sort of meaningful decisions, whether because they're innately stupid or simply refuse to use their brains correctly.
The people who are smart enough to feel smart, but not smart enough to be smart are the true retards of society. And they are the cause of a great many of its issues.