I just found out I'm a genius. Now what?

Sorry but you're just a geek!

If you had a genuinely nuanced intelligence informed by a broad education, you would understand that the psychologists who try to quantify intelligence are intellectual midgets with no understanding of what intelligence really is.

To be a genius, you must do a lot better than impressing some dumbshit psych student. You have to come up with brand new, earthshattering ideas that nobody has thunk before. The degenerate roman root of the word implies creation. You must be a mover, a shaker, a leader, someone who can do what nobody else can, to be a genius.

No psychologist has ever been a genius. Every psychologist has been flat-out wrong.

Stop goofing off and start pushing that broom. Time is money.

Amazing, I had just the opposite experience!

All my youth was in 98th percentile, but then found out it was really 90th in useful things, and 99.999th percentile in an esoteric field that no one really cares about. It totally changed my life!

If you are really genius or if you are what you describe. please respond to my post, i will find you a way to make money for both of us. I can inbox you my email, then we can talk about my plan, on how we can make money and get rich first. Then we can work how to help the society and the environment, because that is one of my concern.

I've had enough of scheming and messing around with jerks

My car is parked outside, I'm afraid it doesn't work

I'm looking for a partner, someone who gets things fixed

Ask yourself this question: Do you want to be rich?

You've got the brains, I've got the looks

Let's make lots of money

I've got the brawn, You've got the brains

Let's make lots of money

"Amazing, I had just the opposite experience!

All my youth was in 98th percentile, but then found out it was really 90th in useful things, and 99.999th percentile in an esoteric field that no one really cares about. It totally changed my life!"

Gnothi Seauton: this is true intelligence. I have more standard deviations compared to the mean than you do. They are however utterly useless, partly because they are overshadowed by my many other untested weaknesses, partly because of their uselessness in everyday life.

Genius, as hunger, is not measured by figures but by completion.

Genius...autistic spectrum....Just add ADD and you will have hit all the pop psychology buzzwords

THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO THE FACT THAT I WAS A GENIUS THE MAN SAY, "WE GOT ALL THAT WE CAN USE"

Jim Croce

4/10

If you are so smart, why aint you rich?

[quote]Never lived up to expectations wrote:

I agree that being a 'genius' is overrated.

Whilst intelligence is associated with success, success is not a certainty.

a poor father who eats less and works hard so his kid can have more is a success

and he may have passed the real test

I don't see anywhere in my post where I said I wasn't rich.

OP what's your job?

I found that intelligence is important in a number of professions. For example, in my own profession, that of intellectual property law, I find mostly very intelligent practitioners. Some even go beyond intelligent, and edge into the brilliant. That is all good and necessary for the field, but it doesn't make any of us a better person.

But this all needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Success and happiness are far more dependent on having personal maturity and a high emotional IQ.

I come from a broken home and dysfunctional and abusive family. Nothing has been more difficult for me personally than have the requisite humility to address the various maturity and emotional deficiencies as a result of my earlier years. I think I am getting there, and certainly can measure my progress, but a sense of arrogance, or even misplaced weight over the value of intelligence, would have really impaired my progress. One really needs a no excuses mindset, coupled with an attitude to have lots of ego damage inflicted. Watching functional people with sound values, and I meaning really watching what they do as opposed to what they say, is really a valuable thing.,

To the original poster, you almost would have been better off not knowing the scores on your cognitive tests. You are what you are, irrespective of a test score number, and being calm, confident, assertive (not aggressive) and mature are far better areas of personal focus than a test score ascribing a certain level of analytic capability.

Sounds like you need a challenge.

Get a job in sales and see if you still feel like a genius.

unrecognized wrote:

pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:

Exactly. Get to work.

I have been financially independent and living on my own since I graduated from undergrad 5 years ago. I have enough money now to go years without working if I chose to.

And? You are so smart, eliminate some human misery.

If you do not do something in the service of others with your supposed genius-ness, you've done worse than nothing.

Rest on your laurels and spend your days bragging about your genius to a sea of half-wits on LR.

The answer, coming from a fellow genius, to the question of what you do if you are a genius is: Anything that moves. Chubby interns really like to please.

Make a post on letsrun.com?

reverse effect wrote:

All my youth was in 98th percentile, but then found out it was really 90th in useful things, and 99.999th percentile in an esoteric field that no one really cares about. It totally changed my life!

Well put. The OP should think hard about his UTQ (Useful Things Quotient). That, and not his ability to solve contrived math problems, is what matters out in the real world. Sadly, "low UTQ" almost defines "on the spectrum."