>>13896881Idk probably like 120. Smarter than average but I don’t remember the chain rule in calculus or anything past “tis a consummation / devoutly to be wish’d” in Hamlet’s soliloquy. I am smart enough to problem-solve in Excel and build formulas, but it would take me years to learn Chinese or quantum cryptography. I frequently get the captcha wrong.
The best shot that I have at performing an act of genius would probably be to write some sort of short story or novella, and even then it would only be faint. It would not be some miracle of consciousness such as the Iliad or Newton’s Principia. At any rate I struggle too much with time management and despair at the moment to do anything creative. So there’s no point in speculating until I do it. I lack the monomaniacal need to express oneself that true geniuses have, but I have the willpower to try my best.
In my case my intellect is a function of my mediocrity, instead of the other way around. I’m not gifted but I did about the best that a midwit can do. So 120 sounds fair.
