/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16164832]

>no matter how many books you read, you will never escape being a 122 iq midwit
Is there no book to fix my smooth brain?

[Anonymous No.16164839]

>>16164832
No need to fix your brain anon, just make the best out of what you have!

[Anonymous No.16164921]

>Open my writing from when I was a teenager
>It's much, much better
experience is a meme. Your brain starts melting when you turn 17. The smartest you is already gone. tomorrow you will wake up dumber

[Anonymous No.16164925]

>>16164832
122 IQ is in the top 10th percentile. IQ itself doesn't matter that much anyway, it just correlates with other things

[Anonymous No.16164928]

How do I guestimate my IQ?
I was in the g&t program K-5 and mentally dropped out near the end of my elementary education.
I got only an 1140 on my SATs but in my defense, I never formally learned Algebra and hadn't picked up a book since elementary. Had a 1.9 GPA in highschool (did the bare minimum)
Thanks to this, only community colleges would accept me.
I dropped out of CC because of the Rona as I had to act as a tard wrangler for my brother, ending up with a bunch of WUs on top of the ones I had earlier in the last semester.
Lately I put an end to the weed and gaymer habits and am working on finishing up with the Greeks and moving on to medieval philosophy.
I am just curious as to whether my own intelligence would become a barrier; I'd pay for a mensa sponsored test but a low result would leave me more demoralized than I already am as my position has been reduced to that of a lowly NEET. I've only a high-school diploma and very few places are hiring. I may have to go to trade school but I don't want to end up alienated from my work and I really only enjoy artistic pursuits.

I hope I don't end up killing myself, I promised myself I won't- or at least not until I hit a certain point of no return.
For now, I just read and watch online lectures and will be pretending I'm still in college until I secure some sort of employment.

Pray for me bros.

[Anonymous No.16164929]

>>16164832
Often all it takes is being given the tools of thought, as Socrates said he has seen many go from the plainest of minds to highly capable such as he, being the midwife that he is.

It is just most are taught philosophy as an abstract thing, with no religiosity, and the world is too evil at the moment for them to find such a thing on their own as well. And one must keep in mind also, ones unique psyche, and furthermore that often the truly creative bloom happens later in life after practising something for many years. Such as Shakespeare who went from an above average poet, to the very greatest around mid-life.

[Anonymous No.16164974]

>>16164928
Why didn't you officially withdraw during the Rona and fix up the WU's from the last semester.

[Anonymous No.16165020]

>>16164974
There was no way I can fix up my WU's and F's from that first semester. The atmosphere of the institution ruined my spirits. The student body was "ghetto" and the were professors poorly compensated and uninspired. It was a stark contrast to my former "prestigious" engineering highschool where my friend group consisted of some turbo autists and other genuinely intelligent people.

The classes in my CC had its curriculum catered to the loweet common denominator, and some of the courses consisted of outright propaganda.

After a brief existential crisis I decided to suck it up and better myself and passed with As for both my winter classes- psychology and earth science with little effort. I thought I was beginning a new leaf, but a week after spring classes began the Rona happened, and you know how all the schools were closed out. My bro has problems and he always needs an eye to look after him, it's difficult to do that and keep track of 6 online classes in which all my professors use different platforms to communicate. I simply said "fuck it" and stopped showing up.
I did not sign up for the fall semester, even got some emails from advisors asking me where I am, and I have not nor do I plan to reply.

It is a grave I have dug for myself, starting from my adolescence. I feel trapped, and am not quite sure what to do.

[Anonymous No.16165023]

>>16164832
The only escape I'm afraid is to stop posting off-topic threads on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.16165038]

>>16164832
>122 iq midwit
Is this the /lit/ equivalent of heightism?

[Anonymous No.16165058]

>>16164832
What's a non midwit IQ anon?
t. 124 IQ midwit

[Anonymous No.16165101]

>>16165058
the most depressed anons are the bigbrains. with an IQ above 130 you might as well look for a nice asylum before you turn manically depressed. it's like back-pains for dudes above 6 feet or girls with D cups. evolution peaked with average humans but humanity prospers due to mutants.

[Anonymous No.16165198]

>>16164921
I've been experiencing this ever since I got to college
Glad I'm not the only one

[Anonymous No.16165234]

>>16164928
http://dmitlab.in/dermatoglyphics-multiple-intelligence-test/

[Anonymous No.16165268]

>>16164921
I was a retard until I turned 17. I've been getting smarter since then

[Anonymous No.16165283]

>>16165101
I think this is true from my experience. IQ is problem solving ability so when you have high IQ you involuntarily puzzle solve every statement or glance to be some kind of judgement against you, you reason every possible criticism of yourself into belief. I've found the only winning move is to not play i.e become buddha

[Anonymous No.16165296]

>>16165283
yeah, it's like the Simpsons episode in which Homer has a crayon up his nose. he's happier being dumb.

[Anonymous No.16165360]

IQ doesn't matter at all, making the right decisions in the right time is all that matters.
I repeatedly score in the range of 125-135 which should at least in theory mean that I am pretty smart or at the very least should have a good basis, but nothing could be farther from the truth. I am a complete retard and have not made a single good decision since I turned 15.
Sorry for the rage :(, and thanks to you all beautiful anons who have read it

[Anonymous No.16165364]

>>16165198
knowing that you will be less healthy, less capable this time next year is an utterly psychic horror.

[Anonymous No.16165367]

>>16164832
A person who keeps their brain in good shape even with a 122 IQ is still doing better than a 160 IQ Einstein who does nothing all day and just blobs around the place. You're not doing too bad anon:)

[Anonymous No.16165380]

>>16164832
Stop listening to 4chan shitposting. You're of above average intelligence. You're smart anon, be proud of it

[Anonymous No.16165386]

I don't understand difficult concepts because I am low IQ!!!!!

No, you are just lazy. Stop finding excuses.

[Anonymous No.16165387]

>>16165360
same anon. I scored 120 in IQ as a 15 year old for a test made of 17 year old. I was proud. My family was proud. Now I'm 22 with only a highschool education, without a job, and without dreams

[Anonymous No.16165388]

>>16165360
this, I've scored within the average but make better decisions and would often have better ideas than my more intelligent freinds. I also seemed to better at comprehending philosophy than (at least some of) them (i.e. I would comprehend texts quicker and more fully than them based on mine, their, and our instructors observastions).

[Anonymous No.16165392]

>>16165388
*to be

[Anonymous No.16165406]

>>16165388
The latter part is probably due to autism though,

[Anonymous No.16165409]

>>16164832
You can train to complete IQ tests better. On recent test I passed I managed to answer only 25 out of 35 questions in 45 minutes and scored 109 points. I think there wasn't enought time for me.

[Anonymous No.16165413]

>>16164832
Your self esteem being based on other peoples capabilities is itself the real failure.
Real success is working on being better than yourself yesterday.

[Anonymous No.16165426]

>>16165387
>>16165388
You know what the worst thing is?
I am reading and reading and getting more educated, just this year thus far I have read over 100 books, but I feel getting dumber and dumber with every passing year. It's like there is a cloud hanging over my mind and obscuring things from me.
Passions have almost completely disappeared and/or induce no positive effect in me.
I truly feel that making the right decisions is all that matters but how do you do that when you don't know shit and you cannot trust your instincts?
But not to sidetrack OP's thread; IQ is just one of many many different attributes and measures of one's "intellect", and truly ask yourself this question: what does it matter what IQ you have?
You know yourself, you know about your passions and what you are good at, whether you understand philosophy. Don't make the mistake of taking the test as the ultimate measure of your potential, don't be like "oh no I got IQ of 90, that means that I can never be this or that even when you excel at that".
I have literally met a guy that did exactly that, he excelled at one particular thing, did an IQ test, he let himself be deluded into thinking that he was a retard and his potential suddenly plunged.
Just stop using these stupid tests because they don't mean shit, look at your life like it is, be honest with yourself, and go from there.

[Anonymous No.16165432]

>>16165038
Yes. It's like someone who's 6' bemoaning his not being 6'3". My IQ is less than 100. I'd be very happy if I had an IQ of 120.

[Anonymous No.16165532]

>>16164832
137 is King of IQ's.

Longitudinal studies show life results quickly start falling off beyond that. >150 is good for math and physics but horrible for interpersonal relations, OCD, autism, etc. There are very very few life paths that make use of someone who's brilliant in STEM but utterly incapable of understanding other humans.

[Anonymous No.16165601]

122 IQ is good though

[Anonymous No.16165610]

>>16164921
Could it not be that'd you'd be becoming more self-aware and more critical of yourself?

I feel that younger people, (usually ignorant) have them narcisistically visioning themselves to be smarter than they really are

[Anonymous No.16165639]

>>16165367
>you do well in comparison with this hypothetical scenario I just made up in my head

[Anonymous No.16165641]

>>16165532
Trump apparently has an IQ of upwards of 156

[Anonymous No.16165646]

>>16165639
Ability and stuff comes into play too

[Anonymous No.16165655]

>>16165641
and his hands are about 10 times 10 inches large.

[Anonymous No.16165659]

>>16165641
That's based on the average of the students at the school he attended. He has never sat down and actually taken a real test. Most of those presidential IQ ratings are based on guessing.

[Anonymous No.16165683]

>>16164925
cope

[Anonymous No.16165687]

>>16165601
midwit cope

[Anonymous No.16165732]

>>16165426
>It's like there is a cloud hanging over my mind and obscuring things from me.

Same. Hopefully the clouds will dissipate one day anon.
I wish you all the best, please stay strong!