I'm struggling to take a lot of these answers seriously. You really think that way about yourself?
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If I were smarter I could likely answer this question. I never tested for it but for anyone younger out there since its a general test and it normalizes for age I think the younger you take it the better for a high result but its good to do it while your still studying general things. So like in the US like the summer after two years of college as your courses are going to get to specialized at that point. Maybe after the first year or if you don't go to college just after high school.
My situation is I have an ability to recall a lot of really old information and some of it seemingly mundane. I can also synthesize all this together to make a good decision quickly.
This is basically what learning is, but it's a broader base I can pull from and the process is just faster.
I don't do well with forcing specific information to be cataloged. This means I wasn't a great student in classes where you needed to just remember things (eg history).
The other thing I've got going for me is being able to visually see things in my head. It might be memories, but it's also things for solving problems like this https://www.intelligencetest.com/questions/visualization/medium/3/8.html
I don't know.
Depends on what you mean by "high." I have scored between 130-140 on IQ tests I've taken of various quality, which is considered high by most. Idk how it would be different from anyone else's experience of the world. I did extremely well in school and I work as a chemical engineer with a focus on machine learning implementations and capital expansion. I don't know if I would consider myself "smarter" than the average person, just better at certain types of tasks. I also grew up in a stable two parent upper middle class household that valued education and academic success, which is a huge leg up that can't be ignored.
Bad. Do not recommend.
How come?
I find most people boring. Even people who are initially interesting can become boring once I spend a lot of time with them.
Most people also don't seem to realize just how royally fucked we are (USA). In this case I think ignorance would be bliss, since I can't do much to make things better.
Instead of being bad at everything I'm good at a few things
Had my IQ tested a while back and it turns out my IQ is 139. I did ok in school and that's about it.
People with High IQ are dumb.
They lack intelligence in everything except what they love and are narzisstic about.
People with high IQ and high EQ and many others might be awesome, as you can pull out lots of social patterns, wisdoms, etc. But only for those who had good experiences in Life and are a bit older.
What am I? Idk. I think I have a high IQ because of various diagnoses, but lots of mental issues are blocking any motivation to understand Math as fast like other People in University. There are incredible fast learners, but I see in them no experience or memory of pain, suffering, etc. Like, its the "fun" that steers us to learn. Becoming distracted pretty fast like me is pain. Its like I have only a High IQ when the Moon shines perfectly.
I believe that I have a good amount of EQ, because I too often only think about lives of other people and even wasted money to help a broken new friend, just to see the money never again and him either. I suffer just from the imagination of a friend who suffered. I could be the smartest person by being the dumbest Person. Meaning that when I would only see the world centered around me like an egoist/narzissist, I would be happy, because I would lack the intelligence to simulate another World of another Person. I would only know what I need like a dumb Person. I would lack a lot of intelligences.
Having an High IQ without anything else, makes you a very dumb Person is my Opinion. I feel like the word "IQ" is wrongly labeled, because you dont really measure "Intelligence" by it.