For people at that level of intelligence and above, greater intelligence is not the primary differentiator. Other things are: primarily what I call drive, which especially includes hard work. It really helps that the hard work is like play or sport, and that one can physically and mentally sustain it.
The same is true in actual sports. High level talent is required for high level success, but not sufficient.
I got 154 on a Wechsler once. They told me I could be anything I wanted to be. But what I wanted to be was a major league baseball player and could see no way the IQ score would help with that. Nothing else ever really appealed to me in terms of work. My criteria for "good" jobs has been one that's not deadly boring, doesn't require getting up too early, doesn't require a huge amount of human interaction,and most of all, interfered with my running as little as possible. I've done various professional and academic things and they were usually fine. But my favorite all time job was driving a taxi. I'd have done that forever but income can be very sketchy. Lately I've thought that I'd liked to have found a way to have driven a train. Personality and temperament are, in my opinion, more important than intelligence, within reasonable limits, to how your work life plays out. If my IQ has had any impact on my work life it's that I am smart enough to avoid getting caught up in having income and status define how I should be and what I should do.
you should get your PhD in Math and live off in the woods and write a manifesto... and maybe send some packages to people.
One Armed Bandit wrote:
Do not get a philosophy degree or work in a running sotre
Actually I believe it's pronounced Sartre
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xlev2 wrote:
Ophthalmology
Make a literal fortune
Truly help people with one of our most valued and necessary physical capabilities--sight
Full of eccentric , rigid technocrat types who don't want to form relationships but just do what they are paid to do and do it exceedingly well--and patients accept it. They know you aren't there to talk about sports or the kids.
BIRDS! yes!!
I think you've confused this with ontology
I have an IQ of 143 and like eating spicy mcchonkins and running so probably for 150 you should at least be doing that
Migration sociologist.