/lit/ - Literature

>Oh no my IQ is only a standard deviation above the mean! I'll never be remembered like Beethoven or Dante, this fucking sucks! Books to fix this??

Get over yourself. You're as smart as the median college professor or electrical engineer, is that really so bad? Most people would love to have your level of intelligence.

>nb4 t. coping midwit
I scored 47 on the Wonderlic, 130+ on the WAIS-IV.

I was certified at 129. It's comforting knowing that you have the mental acuity to hold your own in almost any profession or workplace, but it comes with a good deal of imposter syndrome. You know you're clever, but not enough to succeed without trying. I'm adept at spotting patterns and picking things up quickly, but rely heavily on the ideas of others and struggle to create anything novel.

I've long accepted that I'll never do anything special, but many literal geniuses end up in mediocrity. I'm happy to have tenacity and a strong work ethic that only came out of a teenage need to justify how smart I am to myself. As long as I hold a position I feel is fitted to my strengths, raise a good child and can engage with challenging works of art, I feel like I'd have made good use of my mind.

btw, pic related is my favourite proof that iq is real and really does relate to actual life outcomes that matter

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For what it's worth I'm pretty sure those are not real. An IQ of 130 is in the top 98th percentile in intelligence and I don't think it would be even statistically possible for the average student of basically any STEM major to be 2 standard deviations above average, which is the picture that chart is painting. If you're willing to accept stats I pull out of my ass I also believe the average IQ of a degree holder in the US is like 105, and the highest average IQ by profession is usually agreed to be medical doctors with like 120.

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>because IQ is normally distributed
Look it’s another episode of lefty makes up the world to go along with their views