175? Nice. Respect.
175? Nice. Respect.
The real OP here. The recent posts under my handle are an imposter, obviously. Not really sure what motivates a person to do that. ???
Anyway, I'm not really sure I care at all about this thread, but it caught my eye on page 1 since I wrote it and remember writing it while abroad a few years ago. If anyone wants an update on how things are now and what has transpired since 2014, let me know. Otherwise I'll ignore this.
What's the big update?
Give us the update wrote:
What's the big update?
Yes fill us in.
I'm assuming IntJ(1) and IntJ(2) are not one in the same, possibly a split personality IntJ(12). But that would be cool too. A debate between two IntJs that are actually one.
lease wrote:
Go to jocrf.org and arrange to be tested. It's a little pricy but worth far more than you'll pay.
I've noticed that Johnson O'Connor has been mentioned in multiple threads on this site. My kids and I were tested and were very satisfied.
Seriously, check it out. Full disclosure: I have no relationship to jocrf except as an enthusiastic "alum."
I took Johnson O'Connor maybe 40 years ago and looking back can see it was right in giving me a new direction. It also can help identify groups of people you'd be comfortable with. Don't isolate.
i'm interested, update please wrote:
Give us the update wrote:What's the big update?
Yes fill us in.
I'm assuming IntJ(1) and IntJ(2) are not one in the same, possibly a split personality IntJ(12). But that would be cool too. A debate between two IntJs that are actually one.
There is no big update. I've just continued to live my life. Things have gotten better though. I actually enrolled in a graduate program, but I was pretty heavily ostracized when it became clear to everyone that I was more capable than anyone else in the program and most of the professors. My work was sabotaged by someone in the program who'd been there longer than me who was good friends with several important people, and then this person slandered me as well. I was never fired or anything, but the environment turned toxic pretty quickly, and since I was bored out of my mind in all my classes and not getting anything out of the program, I quit after one semester. It was a difficult decision to make of course, but it turned out to be the correct one.
After leaving my grad program I was quickly hired by a private company I had done a little work for in the past, and they compensated me very well (for my field). I make about double what my friend does despite her having a master's degree and three more years experience. I also get several months off each year, which is great as it allows me to be an autodidact during that time and travel the world as well. I haven't totally actualized my dream, but I am making good money (again, for my field), gaining experience, still reading lots of books, and traveling the world. I have friends, some of which are very good, but I am still alone intellectually. There just aren't others like me. My close circle of friends includes a chemical engineering PhD, a biological engineering PhD, a neuroscience PhD, a molecular biology PhD, and a mathematics PhD candidate, and only the lattermost is someone I can have "real" discussions with. Even then, however, I have a much wider breadth of knowledge than he does, so while he is equally cognitively powerful to me, I end up having to do a lot of explaining any time I really get going. My math education stopped at Calc II, though, so the tables would be turned if we ever discusses mathematics (we don't).
Overall life is good. I'm mostly alone, but I'm planning to try to get involved with a high IQ society this winter and do plan to go back to a graduate program sometime in the next few years with the full understanding that it will be nothing more than hoop jumping. I will keep my mouth shut and just do what needs to be done, no more, no less. The average grad student is a moron relatively speaking, and the average professor is not a whole lot better, but I have greatly lowered my expectations of them, so I can tolerate it.
Ultimate goal is to be a writer/intellectual/philosopher/educator. I don't care about fortune or fame. I just want to write about interesting things, share novel ideas, touch lives, and make the world a better place. I'm already doing that in my own ways, and it's rewarding and fulfilling.
Feel free to ask me questions. I started this thread during a low point in my life when I had gone about a month without conversing with anyone as I was a stranger in a strange land, and my lack of linguistic skills allowed me to talk only to the brohemian travelers I ran across, people who communicated mostly through grunts, fist-bumps, and high pitched cheers.
When you have completed these, you can consider yourself a learned man:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World
Keep us posted.
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Feel free to ask me questions. I started this thread during a low point in my life when I had gone about a month without conversing with anyone as I was a stranger in a strange land, and my lack of linguistic skills allowed me to talk only to the brohemian travelers I ran across, people who communicated mostly through grunts, fist-bumps, and high pitched cheers.
Have you ever read Confederacy of Dunces? It's hilarious and this piece of writing especially made me think of it.
tyre wrote:
2.5 years later wrote:Feel free to ask me questions. I started this thread during a low point in my life when I had gone about a month without conversing with anyone as I was a stranger in a strange land, and my lack of linguistic skills allowed me to talk only to the brohemian travelers I ran across, people who communicated mostly through grunts, fist-bumps, and high pitched cheers.
Have you ever read Confederacy of Dunces? It's hilarious and this piece of writing especially made me think of it.
I have not. I will look into it though. Thanks.
I'm just a little curious here but did you go to a top university for the semester of graduate work? I really feel like the top places in the US/UK would have many people similar to you. I think you'd be welcomed there. I think it may be somewhat harder because your field is not mathematics, physics, computer science, or engineering. Universities love to have people who are exceptional in those fields.
dajuan wrote:
I'm just a little curious here but did you go to a top university for the semester of graduate work? I really feel like the top places in the US/UK would have many people similar to you. I think you'd be welcomed there. I think it may be somewhat harder because your field is not mathematics, physics, computer science, or engineering. Universities love to have people who are exceptional in those fields.
That was definitely part of the problem. I did not realize how huge the falloff was between great programs and the one I enrolled in (a pretty standard grad program at a regular State U). I was aware Ivy League schools and the like would be a cut above the rest, but I wrongly took it for granted that grad students at any State U would be of at least decent quality. Instead, our differences were so great I gave up bothering to attempt meaningful intellectual conversation with any of them after a number of tries as they had neither the knowledge nor the reasoning ability to even begin to keep up. Even my boss just stared at me blankly the two times I attempted to talk about something meaningful to her. It was very alienating and isolating, and I became immensely frustrated knowing I could be learning both more and more efficiently by not even being in the program.
FWIW, I did a little bit of research into top universities and what average graduate students look like there, and it seems I'm equal to the average student accepted into the biology PhD programs at MIT. I've lived mostly in my own world my whole life, so I've always been a bit out of touch with where I am relative to the norm. It's all been a learning experience.
To be honest with you, you don't sound socially or emotionally intelligent and that's a big part of life. I'm not surprised you were sabotaged if you were walking around with the attitude that comes across in your posts, sorry. Things like referring to people as your "inferiors" in the first post gives away what kind of attitude you had towards them and believe me, people pick up on that. Not very smart.
But I do want to say good luck with everything as you sound really isolated and I do hope it works out for you.
Never mind everything else in this thread, it is almost certainly bullshit.
As for your "IQ," it is a measure of your skill development at certain abstract yet contrived tasks dreamed up by psychologists, who are universally viewed by wise people as MORONS. They are the stupidest people at any university, unable to pass any other major, even English. They would not exist if they didn't make so much money for drug dealers, i.e. the pharma industry.
Now as you stated in the first few sentences of your boring OP, your problem is you read too much. Stop freaking reading and deal with the world as it is, not as someone else claims it to be on a piece of paper. What a gullible fool you are, trusting your whole life to the words of others. Off to the real world you go. Have some perceptions of your own for once.
Oh and you better not be playing that Pokemon Go shit. Those people are the most pathetic creatures on Earth.
This might be the longest humble brag in LRC history..
Do incredibly intelligent, introverted people seek out life advice on a dumb running forum? Troll
Oh F off. Do you really think someone as intellectually intelligent as I am wouldn't also be socially and emotionally intelligent? Or couldn't fake it. Sorry, but you sound inferior too. No offense, but I wouldn't expect someone like you to understand.
Javelin Handler wrote:
To be honest with you, you don't sound socially or emotionally intelligent and that's a big part of life. I'm not surprised you were sabotaged if you were walking around with the attitude that comes across in your posts, sorry. Things like referring to people as your "inferiors" in the first post gives away what kind of attitude you had towards them and believe me, people pick up on that. Not very smart.
FYI wrote:
grandiose delusions
This is def something to watch out for.
I tested at 168 at age 17.
Now, we know there are many types of intelligence.
My best recommendation to you is put that brain power to studying some things like speed reading. ("Breakthrough Rapid Reading," best recommendation for learning at home.) Also, study accelerated learning techniques.
This will allow you to blast through mountains of material and retain more.
If you have any issues with getting too obsessed with it, and any anxiety or loss of focus -- research emotional regulation, emotion regulation, emotional regulation techniques. Figure out some cogent medition techniques for yourself.
Research online how to do a values-elicitation on yourself. And how to figure out your "definitive major purpose."
Good luck.
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Oh F off. Do you really think someone as intellectually intelligent as I am wouldn't also be socially and emotionally intelligent? Or couldn't fake it. Sorry, but you sound inferior too. No offense, but I wouldn't expect someone like you to understand.
You're smart, you know: It's fairly standard and typical for there to be an inverse relationship between intellectual intelligence and social/emotional intelligence. There's a bit of that at play here. You are apparently smart enough to know that you need to try and "fake it" but not smart enough to know that you can't really fake social/emotional over the longer term; if you are broken/deficient here - it eventually comes out.
From a distance and going just on this thread you seem to lack components of empathy; you say your not Aspergers but I wouldn't be surprised if you are somewhere on the scale.
None of this means that you can't have a meaningful and fulfilling life.
I'm just a messenger here.
You kind of sound like me, except my IQ probably doesn't hit triple digits. Perhaps you are a very strong introvert?
I prefer to be alone than with others for the most part. While I'm very focused on a narrow set of interests, I do like to go very deeply into them.
Have you read "The Introvert Advantage"? It's quite good, I recommend it.
Anyway, good luck to you in your quest.
Done. Not bad.
tyre wrote:
2.5 years later wrote:Feel free to ask me questions. I started this thread during a low point in my life when I had gone about a month without conversing with anyone as I was a stranger in a strange land, and my lack of linguistic skills allowed me to talk only to the brohemian travelers I ran across, people who communicated mostly through grunts, fist-bumps, and high pitched cheers.
Have you ever read Confederacy of Dunces? It's hilarious and this piece of writing especially made me think of it.