I think if you have to spend that much time studying you’re not really a genius… I personally lived the life on the left with the results on the right (but wasn’t a jerk about it)
I honestly felt terrible being done with a 50-minute test in under 10 min, 1st one done, after not studying, and getting the highest grade in the class full of pre-med bio students. And then finding out half the class failed. But that’s life.
It’s just life circumstances… It actually sucks to accidentally remember most everything you come across with little to no filter. Imagine how that would alter your relationships with ppl if you remembered details of their life more than they do. And how you always come across as a know-it-all self-important jerk just by approaching life through the lens of remembering all the obscure details… Especially when people around you don’t… Either have to fake dumb, which is demeaning to yourself and to those around you… (didn’t House approach that subject-the physicist mail courier episode..) or you appear better than everyone else cuz you’re always accidentally talking over their heads or talking down to them. It’s really not sonething to brag about, it’s actually a no-win situation.
Case in point. Whether people on the right side if the intelligence bell curve hide their intelligence or not they lose. If they hide it they have to live consciously knowing they’re altering how they think and respond to people to fit in. But if they just decide to accept that there is in fact an average, a below average, and an above average intelligence and that experience and evidence shows they consistently fall into the above average, if they just let truth be truth… Everyone thinks they are arrogant jerks.
There is your ‘average’ set of folks. There is the far-below-average and their way of thinking differs to the point that accommodations are made for them. Those on the other side of the bell curve, however, are just treated as though they ought to be able to just deal, and resented for their ability.
Sierra, I have had a similar experience. As you mentioned in the reply below, just remembering things about a previous conversation with someone comes off as creepy, while my only crime was just having a good memory. I would read my textbook and the information would be there, even years later. I would ace my tests in minutes with little or no preparation and be hated because of it. Despite what anyone may think, this is not bragging, it is sharing my life experience that same as someone else might do.
Remembering things from ancient conversations is entirely normal; bringing them up so that people feel uncomfortable in conversation with you is just social ineptitude.
Some people have better focus and attention span and some dont. People like Sierra do have that they just dont realise it,in reality they are the same us.
But hey they get through the school fine but after that they are normal human beings,i have a friend like that,he is not a millionaire or a genius inventor or a pioneer.
I think if you have to spend that much time studying you’re not really a genius… I personally lived the life on the left with the results on the right (but wasn’t a jerk about it)
I honestly felt terrible being done with a 50-minute test in under 10 min, 1st one done, after not studying, and getting the highest grade in the class full of pre-med bio students. And then finding out half the class failed. But that’s life.
Um, humblebrag? Wait, no. Brag. Definitely a plain ol’ brag. Yup.
It’s just life circumstances… It actually sucks to accidentally remember most everything you come across with little to no filter. Imagine how that would alter your relationships with ppl if you remembered details of their life more than they do. And how you always come across as a know-it-all self-important jerk just by approaching life through the lens of remembering all the obscure details… Especially when people around you don’t… Either have to fake dumb, which is demeaning to yourself and to those around you… (didn’t House approach that subject-the physicist mail courier episode..) or you appear better than everyone else cuz you’re always accidentally talking over their heads or talking down to them. It’s really not sonething to brag about, it’s actually a no-win situation.
Maawww, poor you. :-(
Case in point. Whether people on the right side if the intelligence bell curve hide their intelligence or not they lose. If they hide it they have to live consciously knowing they’re altering how they think and respond to people to fit in. But if they just decide to accept that there is in fact an average, a below average, and an above average intelligence and that experience and evidence shows they consistently fall into the above average, if they just let truth be truth… Everyone thinks they are arrogant jerks.
There is your ‘average’ set of folks. There is the far-below-average and their way of thinking differs to the point that accommodations are made for them. Those on the other side of the bell curve, however, are just treated as though they ought to be able to just deal, and resented for their ability.
Does it matter ? If that’s true, it’s definitely brag worthy !
Sierra, I have had a similar experience. As you mentioned in the reply below, just remembering things about a previous conversation with someone comes off as creepy, while my only crime was just having a good memory. I would read my textbook and the information would be there, even years later. I would ace my tests in minutes with little or no preparation and be hated because of it. Despite what anyone may think, this is not bragging, it is sharing my life experience that same as someone else might do.
Remembering things from ancient conversations is entirely normal; bringing them up so that people feel uncomfortable in conversation with you is just social ineptitude.
Did lots of the top and the bottom from the left, only a bit of one on the right. Passed all 13 papers though! All work and no play etc….
Really not true. It might just as well be titled why a person with all A’s is often lacking emotional intelligence.
Some people have better focus and attention span and some dont. People like Sierra do have that they just dont realise it,in reality they are the same us.
But hey they get through the school fine but after that they are normal human beings,i have a friend like that,he is not a millionaire or a genius inventor or a pioneer.