Do you think you are intelligent?

There is no way he is that clever iq wise.
He has had a charmed life with a silverspoon, he has some charisma and is ridiculously driven but i really doubt he is gifted intelligent because you wouldn't be that much of a megalomaniac. No way.
 
Probably about average, there are some people that are staggeringly stupid but there's some people far more intelligent than me, often in my job I often feel like I'm winging it tbh :p
 
CaptainComedy said:
I would rather hide my intelligence, life is more enjoyable that way (for obvious reasons)
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A riff on Jerome K. Jerome's point "If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest"?

I feel however there may be some truth in William Feather's observation "One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."
 
semi-pro waster said:
I feel however there may be some truth in William Feather's observation "One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."
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I watched a YouTube video that was talking about civilisation being the downfall of modern man. I had a hard time arguing against it. Civilisation has certainly made mankind lazy and unable to survive on their own.
 
Probably average in the grand scheme of things. I learn best by doing, as opposing to reading/theorising and have always been that way, exams are not for me.

At work, I have a lot of knowledge on our products/services and how to configure/use them, but nowhere near as technically capable as a lot of those I work with.
 
I'm unbelievably thick, failed everything in school even though i actually tried really hard i just don't take things in that don't interest me, but then again that's just academic side my mechanical side is quite good.
 
I consider myself intelligent, but I'm aware that I have never reached, nor will I ever reach my full potential because of my work ethic, I'm a lazy sod. I'm also very good in a test environment, always have been, so I often wonder if that distorts my scoring on IQ tests and I appear smarter than I actually am.

I wish I'd gone to a better school when I was a just a boy. My secondary school was ranked last in Newham in the league tables, Newham was the second worst borough in London at the time - I always considered myself smarter than all the other kids in the year, I would be able to pick up concepts far easier and at a much faster rate than anybody else, and because of this I was able to coast through secondary school without making any real effort. I took this mindset with me on to college, where life gave me a swift kick in the balls and made me realise that perhaps I wasn't as smart as I thought. 8 years of dead-end jobs followed, again meaning I could coast through the day to day without enough mental stimulation to challenge me on a regularly basis. Its only in the last 7 years where I made the break into accountancy that I find myself challenged on a regular basis, which is fantastic, but also feels like its come far too late.

Also while I might do well if you were to score me on pure intelligence, fact retention and application, I think that I'd fall behind if we were to look at other areas. I'm very introverted, so certainly lacking in emotional / social intelligence - but I've reached the level of maturity now where I can appreciate that for the most part I'm not the smartest person in the room, and do my best to work around my limitations.
 
Cromulent said:
If you read Quora just about everyone there claims to be a genius with 150+ IQ but given the fact that Quora is a cesspit of idiocy I find it hard to believe.
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At 16 I had a mensa certified IQ of 161, my brother is 162, top 2% of the nation and genius level, not that IQ is a direct relationship to intelligence.

I would say I am a lot more intelligent than he is, he's not stupid just not interested in developing himself. I flutter around finding it hard to focus on one area but if I get a problem that I need to figure a solution out too I'm hooked until it's solved. I am always reading, learning but again, memory issues and fluttering from one thing to another means I've specialised in nothing. I am able to detach emotions from thought, maybe due to the depression which means I can look at things differently. When I say fluttering, I've recently designed the basic layout and idea for a money planning website and phone app. I've also designed a garden and cabin extension for the garden, I'm rebuilding my PC, doing SEO for a friends website, all while working full time trying to figure out how to hack systems together at work to do what I need as they won't invest in proper tech and being a good dad/husband. Also, rereading my hypnosis books, exercising, building a couple of websites, studying for MS certification and getting my road bike sorted... that's just the last 8 days. I wish I didn't have to sleep, too much to do.

I think that if my life hadn't taken a dramatic turn at the age of 9 and my parents had the taken advice from teachers and pushed me towards a specialised school I would be a lot more intelligent and succesful than I am, but I wouldn't say happier.

There's an awful lot I don't know, in fact at times I feel there is too much out there now, the information age overloads me. I also over complicate the simplest tasks at times, don't mingle well with others and have very few or no friends.

I'm not sure if that has anything to do with intelligence or events that have happened in my life, ultimately, I'd say I was intelligent in some areas more than others but that I'm not as intelligent as I'd like to be. I have an awful lot of questions.

All that with a lack of sleep and terrible headaches at times results in messy posts that bounce around, like my thoughts.
 
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