Profoundly smarter than either of my two siblings... How?

Young lady, or young man with the golden curls, how can you possibly chide your siblings? You know they love you very much! You come into letsrun.com

and post nothing about your running abilities? What is a STEM field, does that mean you've been hired to cut stems of marijuana? Girl.....you need to put on some sneakers and work up a sweat, then on only then you can boast about your prodigious experience.

Sounds like your siblings would be way cooler to hang out with?

Sincerely

TIOLD

Different mother?

Twelve inhes of limp dick wrote:

Sounds like your siblings would be way cooler to hang out with?

Sincerely

TIOLD

Most people cannot stand to be around them for more than about half an hour at a time. Neither know when to shut up.

Wejo, any opinion on the matter?

None of this means you are smarter than them. More educated, yes. More successful, yes. More ambitious, yes.

Unwillingness to pay attention can often be confused with lack of intelligence. I am in about the same boat as you, in that I'm more competent in my personal life and more successful in professional life than the rest of my family. I used to think I was smarter than my siblings, but I don't really think that's the case. I think that I'm just better at focussing on what I'm doing. As such I am able to use a similar level of mental ability to accomplish more.

golden child wrote:

Twelve inhes of limp dick wrote:

Sounds like your siblings would be way cooler to hang out with?

Sincerely

TIOLD

Most people cannot stand to be around them for more than about half an hour at a time. Neither know when to shut up.

Neither KNOWS ...

It's genetics. Probably a single-gene trait that's short-circuiting them, while you're a recessive carrier. Your parents are both Aa (if they don't display the same traits), bro and sis ended up AA with train-wreck lives, and you got Aa or maybe aa. I don't know if it's anything that an be diagnosed. What are your parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, or cousins like? Any family patters for things like this? You might be able to identify some similar personality traits in yourself.

I definitely see this often. Many of my friends with loaded with talent have subpar siblings

But in your case, your siblings got all the personality

People forget that humans don't have to be smart AT ALL to survive. It's more of a miracle that a fair amount of the population is a shade smarter than the average chimp but there really is no need for even that.

The truth is that the intelligence difference between us and Chimps hasn't actually fully established itself as a fixed trait in our population.

Funny, everyone in my family has attained distinction in both academic and professional realms. You must be a genetic anomaly, one thread away from insignificance yourself.

It means you aren't smart enough to understand how genetics works.

For OP to post what OP posted, OP is not the golden child that OP says OP is.

They may be less educated and ambitious than you, but that does not mean that you are smarter.

There are a lot of explanations why they aren't as successful as you. Someone already mentioned the ability (or desire) to concentrate/focus.

They may be leading the lives they want.

Read "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin. You can't always judge a book by it's cover.

I've found that most people aren't as smart as they think they are.

Sounds like you won the genetic lottery. Be thankful, move on.

I know a guy with a lot of siblings. The career/educational breakdown is something like the following: physician, physician, physician, physician, PhD in physics from Harvard and finally BA in psychology - works as a nanny. The "baby" either lacks the genes or drive/motivation (also genetic).

Angry Willy wrote:

Sounds like you won the genetic lottery. Be thankful, move on.

I know a guy with a lot of siblings. The career/educational breakdown is something like the following: physician, physician, physician, physician, PhD in physics from Harvard and finally BA in psychology - works as a nanny. The "baby" either lacks the genes or drive/motivation (also genetic).

And the "baby" might be the happiest one of all.

You're viewing this as nature over nurture, I'd encourage you to view it the other way. Perhaps you work harder and are more driven, more of a perfectionist, etc in order to make your parents proud and reduce the burden that your siblings put on them and have subconsciously been doing so since a very young age. This is really not that uncommon. Do some research on family dynamics, most of it is about children of alcoholics but the same roles tend to present themselves in any dysfunctional family.

3 min read:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/10/genes-dont-just-influence-your-iq-they-determine-how-well-you-do-school

Probably just luck. You may have stronger traits that relate to academic and professional success, or you may have just gotten better opportunities or more attention for academics than your siblings.