>>13535045Think of IQ as basically the rate at which you can learn new things.
the lower it is, the longer you will spend learning the same concepts as your cohort.
this is the truth though:
if you are even questioning it, why do it. do you want to work your ass off to enter a career that you will struggle to ever be in the top 50th percentile?
do you want to see your coworkers laughing and memeing at work while you sit there stressing?
you are far better off being a big fish in a small pond. someone who is average at engineering could be in the top 10% for sales or accounting or top 1% in a trade.
being in the top 3rd is extremely important for your self esteem and self-perceived success.
academics struggle with this to a huge degree with very few of the academics producing the majority of the publications. its not worth being at the bottom of a dominance hierarchy.
if its ego driving you, drop it and pick a career you can excel at instead of one you will forever struggle and stress to not fall too far behind
>coming from a phd 
