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Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 05:51:19 2020 No.11962740 View Reply Original Report

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Why are smart people so unhappy?
I have an IQ of 92%, and I'm pretty happy with my life. A couple of my friends have IQ in the 120-130% range whatever that means, but they seem really unhappy all the time. I talked to them and they say that they just worry about stuff. I told them not to think about it and they got happier
Does not thinking as hard make you happier?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 05:52:35 No.11962741 Report

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>>11962740
>I have an IQ of 92%

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 06:01:57 No.11962754 Report

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>>11962741
He means his IQ is 92% of 100, the average IQ.
Its 92.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 06:04:22 No.11962757 Report

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>>11962740
Can be many reasons. Here's one.
Smart people tend to see the world for how it really is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 06:19:52 No.11962783 Report

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>>11962757
Then why do smart people think about stuff that doesn't matter?
I constantly wonder why smart people give a shit about stuff that doesn't affect them. It's like "Oh I really care about this famous philosophist or whatever" and I just don't get why they care

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 06:40:47 No.11962804 Report

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>>11962783
They care about things that don't concern them directly and try to change the world. They also get lost in these problems and get fast tracked by material problems which fucks them up until they find a good equilibrium.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 06:45:34 No.11962813 Report

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>>11962804
>>11962783

Nah, because of their higher IQ they can rationalize their common problems shared with everyone else, and turn them into fantastically complex theories of why they are utterly fucked and they can't possibly fuck Stacy.

It's just a cope.
>I am not confident, so I can't muster the courage to hit on Stacy
Then gets turned into
>Life is utterly meaningless and I cannot muster living knowing that the heat death of the universe will eradicate everything I've never known therefore it is utterly pointless to even try to improve myself so I can muster the courage to fuck Stacy5

Just imagine this repeated over, and over, growing more and more complex with every iteration.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 06:48:47 No.11962818 Report

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How can they have 130% IQ if 100% if maximum IQ?

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Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 06:49:38 No.11962821 Report

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>>11962813

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Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 08:11:40 No.11962948 Report

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>>11962740
I struggle a lot with being overly abstract and not concrete in my thinking. Is this some kind of condition? All three of my current professors told me I'm too abstract and need to get 'hands on'. Everything from psychosis to schizophrenia to autism to depression seems to diminish abstract thinking skills, so it's like I'm something completely opposite to these unhealthy maladies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 08:20:34 No.11962959 Report

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>>11962813
Pretty spot on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 08:38:53 No.11962985 Report

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>>11962813
I can't fuck stacy because I'm ugly and 5' 7"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 08:40:42 No.11962988 Report

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>>11962741
kek
>>11962740
I'm about 128 and happy as can be.
>all smart people are miserable!
No, the few people you know that you mistakenly believe are smart happen to be unhappy for reasons unrelated to their intelligence. I'd be willing to bet their unhappy because your stupidity keeps depressing them.

El Arcón

El Arcón Sun 02 Aug 2020 08:41:10 No.11962989 Report

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I unironically like actual retards because they are always so positive and upbeat it is contagious and I can't help but to have good feelings whenever I see them being like that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 08:48:12 No.11963001 Report

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>>11962989
People feel content around others like themselves

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 08:54:09 No.11963011 Report

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>>11962985

No, you can't fuck Stacy because you've determined that since you perceived yourself to be ugly, and 5'7'' that makes you unable to.

It's just an excuse

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 10:23:41 No.11963149 Report

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>>11962988
<130 is low enough to have a good amount of peers, yet >115 is high enough to get a good job.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 10:56:47 No.11963216 Report

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>>11962740
>I have an IQ of 92%
So basically an IQ of 1

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 10:59:18 No.11963218 Report

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>>11962740
High IQ is associated with high neuroticism. You probably lucked out and weren't afflicted with this nightmare of a personality trait.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 11:01:13 No.11963222 Report

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>>11962740
Because higher IQ often tends to be a byproduct of some illness.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 11:04:33 No.11963227 Report

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>>11963216
>So basically an IQ of 1
92% of 1

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 11:09:50 No.11963236 Report

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>>11962740
It won't be the same for any particular person. The fundamental problem is that you deal with a deluge of information and feelings that you may not have the emotional bandwidth to handle. Worries tend to string together and you get emotionally exhausted as a result of running a self-inflicted stress marathon. It also makes it hard to sleep, which exacerbates the problem.

You also typically have some ego tied to your intelligence and success, so failures go down like a glass of tacks. When you fuck up it sticks with you for months -- anger, self-doubt, fear, etc. This is furthered by the fact that intelligent people tend to put themselves in roles where failure is frequent and difficult to avoid. I'm sure many people in high places look at a 90 IQ wagie with some envy. The idea that you can just go to work each day, do your assigned tasks, go home, and just veg out is very appealing when your work follows you home (academia, business ownership, being on-call as a doctor).

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Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 11:12:05 No.11963242 Report

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people who get high scores on an online puzzle test think they are actually underachievers or "lazy smart" when in reality they are just mediocrities that have read some wikipedia articles.
the only thing that matters is the outcome. your outcome is shit, you are shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 11:33:31 No.11963279 Report

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>>11963242
While retards who think they're smart are endemic, using current outcomes as the sole metric for the value of a person is short-sighted and pathetic. A lot of people aren't appreciated until well after their death, people will have different definitions of success, and you're just setting yourself up for a lifetime of self-hatred when you realize that you aren't at the top of the food chain and likely never will be.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 11:44:42 No.11963294 Report

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>>11963279
>as the sole metric for the value of a person
Nobody thinks this. No IQ fetishist is so extreme as to disregard everything else.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 11:46:25 No.11963296 Report

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>>11962740
They are not. Your perception is clouded or you observed some outliers.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22998852/

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2020 12:19:03 No.11963364 Report

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>>11962740
If I gave you a hot slap, would you walk away and think, that's not my problem. That's how smart people are. They see what you can't see and it gives them a 'slap' so to speak. That's why many of them are so neurotic. If you had the ability to see the connection between a candle in a wooden house and it's drunk occupants and a house fire in the night before most everyone around you, wouldn't you complain and get worried all the time? And this happens everyday, every time, some can't even sleep because they can't turn it off.

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