I have an official MENSA IQ of 178 and a near photographic memory. Life is..……….very boring and kind of frustrating, lonely and depressing.
Truth is, when you have a very high IQ you’re usually very lazy, and not that motivated to succeed? You just have this confidence in your intellect, where you don’t care if you fail at all because you know the next job will be even better.
We’re slackers. That’s the best way to describe.
So, why is life boring, frustrating and depressing.
Well, almost every conversation I have is very tedious. I tend to know the point someone is trying to make, after a matter of seconds – but then they spend a further 2-3 minutes explaining it. The world just operates at a 125 IQ level so you’re always waiting for people to catch up with you?
What’s my life like? A voracious, overwhelming need to learn and absorb information.
I honestly spend hours a day just reading statistics – city population sizes, square footage of countries, sports statistics, monetary/inflation rate statistics, athletics world records, the highest prices things have been auctioned for – anything with numbers.
I get more enjoyment from studying numbers than do from watching Netflix.
So, my Saturday is kind of like this:
9am – wake up and read the news/Wikipedia. Read through the sports box scores/statistics from previous nights games.
10am – watch TV/play video games
11am – more news/Wikipedia/statistics
12pm – unhealthy lunch
1pm – more news/Wikipedia/statistics
3pm – social media/tinder, trying to pretend I’m a breezy, fun guy
4pm – more news/Wikipedia/statistics
5pm – unhealthy evening meal
6pm – trip to supermarket
7pm – usually read a book
8pm to 10pm – Netflix
10pm – reading more news/Wikipedia/statistics in bed
11:30pm – bed
Its hard to describe, but absorbing information is like an addiction. And I have to read the information- I don’t get much enjoyment from watching television or movies.
This will sound odd, but I enjoy reading about the plots of movies/TV shows online, or reading essays about them, much more than I enjoy watching them. If you told me I’d have to sit down for an hour watching a TV show, I’d get very frustrated. My heart sinks when I have to watch a television programme or a movie.
I would put this down to the fact that reading is the only thing that really stimulates my brain and excites me – because it’s somewhat challenging.