Is being highly intelligent more of a burden than an advantage?
Is being highly intelligent more of a burden than an advantage?
Logan Richardson
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Charles Williams
thinking you are highly intelligent while you are infact a rube who has been egged on and pumped up by other rubes is more of a burden than an advantage.
Anthony Thomas
seconded
Isaac Morales
sorry to break the news
90% of you smartasses are actually dumb as shit
James Baker
You're not intelligent if you have to ask.
Charles Peterson
Sounds like something a smart person would say
Cooper Gray
Hoihoohihhiihooihoi
Leo Brooks
We've been through this before user. We explained to you last time you posted this shit thread that on average, intelligence is a clear advantage.
Dylan Cooper
pee pee poo poo
Elijah Butler
Power is only useful if applied.
If your intellect is a burden, you aren't doing enough.
>An intellectual who doesn't take part in debate is like a boxer who never steps in the ring.
Mike Tyson isn't a heavyweight champion because of his natural born strength. He's the heavyweight champion because he's APPLIED that strength.
If you do not apply your mental faculty toward advancing some form of technology or developing skills or going outside or being a Sheldon, incapable of abiding by social norms, then sure. Your an intellectual, and people will respect it.
But you'll still be a dumbass looser who thinks he's smart... Somebody half as smart but twice as driven to succeed will surpass you in a million ways if you sit at home eating fucking Cheetos jerking yourself off to how smart you are.
>tldr Your problem isn't the burden of intelligence, its the burden of misapplied effort, wasted effort, or literally no effort. Switch gears, take control, and start producing something from that thinker you got there.
Hope this helps you, you absolute fucking retard.
Luis Hall
fpbp
Joseph Brooks
I’m no genius but I like to think of myself as a pretty smart guy. I could understand it being a burden, there are times that I just want to turn off my brain.
Camden Barnes
For society, it's definitely an advantage. You'll understand and know things quicker than the average person, and your aptitude will be naturally stronger.
However, intelligent people also have high awareness, and are prone to becoming bored or lazy quickly. They realize reasons or points of discussions and then are ready to move on to whatever is next to be curious about. That's why depression is more common in geniuses. Ignorance really is bliss.
Charles White
This.
Connor Jones
We're all on Yas Forums...which means nobody here is THAT smart.
Aiden Carter
I actually disagree with this for many reasons.
Life is about balance.
I’d sell my soul to turn back time 20 years ago and take a baseball bat to my computer.
Ethan Allen
Go ahead and disagree, are you gonna follow that up with any sort of refute or just contradict it for the sake of unearned intellectual superiority? Seems like an ego trip to me. Do shrooms. Loose your self, and you'll be golden
Liam King
there is a difference between being intelligent and having a big head you stupid orange double dick head
Hunter Kelly
witnessed
Levi Price
Also what in the fuck does balance have to do with actively applying intellegence...
Are you being retarded on purpose? You better not be
Nolan Lee
>ignorance is bliss
high intelligence is good when you get raised well/are taught well/have work ethic, e.g. high conscientiousness
high intelligence will be devastating if it was used to mostly ace through early stages of school without ever learning to work
t. brainlets
Dylan Perry
two things.
an intellectual is a person who has somehow become educated beyond his/her intellect.
intelligence is a gift, and the best use of it is acting responsibly.
so, that said, it should be both a burden and advantage, but if you only accept the advantage without the burden of responsibility, you have what we define as "evil".
Michael Hill
>In this post, Jordon Peterson-based Psychology regurgitation of rhetoric.
You saying the word conscientious only exasperates the obvious fact that you don't know what the fuck your talking about.
This does not hold true in the real-world, retard. Plenty of very intellegent people grow up with none of those advantages and turn out fine. Einstein, Nelson Mandela, MLK, plenty of others had shit for cards but a good brain.
To say that external factors are such a large indicator of success is very narrow minded and simply not true. Fight me.
Parker Wright
Or at least consciously understand the actual cost of success.
There’s many choices I could’ve made differently.
But I believed the facade. “You work hard, you make money, you’ll be happy.”
In all reality you work hard, you lose your family, the bitch who said she’d love you forever is nothing more than a leech collecting 3200 a month for child Support for a kid you never see. You can’t have meaningful relationships because all the new bitch for the next few months wants to do is create her own little insurance plan for the next 18 years you can’t have friends because all they want to do is spend your money on dumb shit. This whole quarantine bullshit has damn near broken my entire social group but I’m over here relaxing in my loft listening to ambient drumming noises drunk as fuck lurking on this shithole for entertainment. no different than it has been for the last 2 years. If I could I’d go back and destroy my very first computer I would.
I’d never pick up tides of darkness, I’d never become interested in how it was made, trying to understand how the AI works, id never get interested in programming. I’d had settled for some limp dick deadend job. Instead I always hungered for more. I left no chocolate bar unopened I finally found my golden ticket at the price of the only thing that was ever truly important to me. My kid was supposed to supplant me. Not be a repetition of me. Only reason I haven’t removed myself from the field is the slim chance that by the time she’s 13 she won’t resent me and that when I take her dumbass mom to court she’ll resent her mom enough to choose to live with me. Sometimes it’s better to not step in the ring.
Nicholas Brown
>In this post, I'll call it Jordan Peterson-esque to discredit his post
>To say that external factors are such a large indicator of success is very narrow minded and simply not true. Fight me
Why don't you present some evidence to disprove it, big brain with the big research? Oh wait, you're actually a twat who just listed a bunch of exceptions to an otherwise commonly established rule for dealing with high intelligence in children. You can't even figure out bell curve ends. You're showing survivorship bias for the people with survivorship bias.
Aiden Edwards
this is defined biblically, too. if any are interested.
every part of revelation is a reference to something in the old testament. the line "this calls for wisdom...number is 666" refers specifically to the person granted by God the highest wisdom, Solomon. Although he is wise, be squanders his gifts by doing vulgar things, having many pagan wives and building shrines to the womens' false gods. we see in 1 Kings 10:14, the amount of weight in gold to Solomon in one year was 666 talents.
Therefore, if you have an amazing God-given gift and you don't use it for God's plan, you are as Solomon, and you won't particularly be revisited by great things in the end.
Jackson Williams
Psychological projection and strawman.
I'm not going to show you research. I don't think you could surpass the language barrier, trying to get into it with you would be a fruitless intellectual flex that I don't have time for.
But please. Regurgitate some of your underlined excerpts from psych 101 like you have any idea what the fuck your talking about
Owen Anderson
Keep fighting bro. Thanks for sharing, I believe things will work out just fine for you
Josiah Watson
Being unable to believe in heaven and God is a bigger burden.
Liam Reyes
Depends. Intelligent people are more likely to be successful, but also more likely to be anxious and depressed. That being said, you're probably a midwit with a slightly-above-average IQ who thinks he's much smarter than he is. Also the guy posting essays ITT is a huge faggot, I'm not reading any of his shit.
Liam Sullivan
No, because the truly intelligent don't see burdens or setbacks. Overcoming trials and our base urges make us more competent.
Adam Jenkins
You are a moron.
Jose Stewart
this isn't even real on any level.
Michael Powell
I rarely ever see anyone show this level of mental acuity for any period of time. The whole song and dance is usually as dull as a butter knife, and as accurate as an aggressive alcoholic. Here, it's like watching 2 people come at one another with steak knives. For once, both parties are actually processing and refuting the meat that was given in each response.
If the truly intelligent don't see burdens or setbacks, then what are they overcoming? I'd like to know that there's a train coming, please. That seems like a good thing to notice.
Caleb Reyes
You may not want to tell your kid they are super smart, because when I was in school anytime I didn't do well in class my Mom blamed it on me being bored. I was just lazy as fuck.
David Baker
I always thought of myself as a stupid fucking idiot, but as I've grown older I realized I'm actually way smarter than most people. I wouldn't say I'm a genius (whatever that actually means), but I do humbly admit I am smart.
I would say that being more intelligent than most isn't too bad, you just have to gauge people by understanding what it is they understand.
I think what op is suggesting is that being smart gives you a god complex, which I don't necessarily agree with. I think anyone can have a huge ego that bolster's their confidence, but when a particularly smart person has this, it is just as annoying as when a complete moron does as well.
Adrian Myers
you've just supplanted insight with empathy. empathy isn't inherently good, and it's generally far from reasonable.
Nathaniel Ramirez
I love it when midwits bust out the biggest words in their vocabulary to try to prove how smart they are. You're all faggots and this thread sucks dick. t. 145 IQ
Carson Cooper
Four sigma here, you're a bigger faggot.
Sebastian Turner
I don't think there's an objective answer since you can look at it so many ways, and everyone has their own take, but in my own subjective opinion, it's not a burden.
It's like choosing to be a creature with less complex mental faculties versus being a human: which would you choose? Sure, as a more simple-minded creature, you can find greater pleasure in a smaller scope of stimulating activities, but that comes at the cost of self-awareness, and the ability to appreciate and participate in the more complex stuff in life.
As a human, I have the unique ability to learn a variety of knowledge and skills, and the capacity to appreciate things that other creatures can't, like art or music. Is that a burden? I don't think so. The only drawback is that it's not so easy to find constant stimulation through life, which I guess if that's your goal, then yeah, I can see why it'd be burdensome.
You'd probably get a lot of mixed answers from people here, because a lot of them only seek constant, primitive fleeting pleasures (jacking off, bragging about how big your dick is, how hot your girlfriend is, posting sexual fantasies on Yas Forums, and other things literally any person in the world has the ability to do...); but there are clearly others, including some of the dudes above me ITT, who evidently value more than that, and aren't satisfied just by receiving the same couple stimulating feelings all the time. They want more out of life, and for some people, acquiring knowledge is one of those desires.
So is it a burden? For me, I don't think so, but for some, they might disagree.
Ryan Taylor
you've just supplanted intellect with dopamine deficiency.
Jayden Thompson
>pretends to be an intellectual
>classic case of refusing to debate honestly because he knows he'll lose/can't solidify his argument
>buzzword fallacy spouting while unaware of fallacy fallacy
>It would be a fruitless intellectual flex that I don't have time for.
>still has time to reply
>will still reply to this post
>adds inaccurate underhanded guesses as a final means of trying to undermine what I'm saying
Again I'll reiterate, and this is well know to anyone who has done their research one. Children with high intelligence need stimulus and special care just as much as retards do because they do not fit in a one-size-fits-all school education plan.
>Plenty of very intellegent people grow up with none of those advantages and turn out fine. Einstein, Nelson Mandela, MLK, plenty of others had shit for cards but a good brain.
>intellegent
>The Einsteins were non-observant Ashkenazi Jews, and Albert attended a Catholic elementary school in Munich, from the age of 5, for three years. At the age of 8, he was transferred to the Luitpold Gymnasium (now known as the Albert Einstein Gymnasium), where he received advanced primary and secondary school education until he left the German Empire seven years later.[18]
>King, Jr. and his siblings were born into a financially secure middle-class family, and thus they received better educations than the average child of their race; As a youth, he skipped two grades in high school and received early college admission to Morehouse College at age 15. Thus King grew up in a family that encouraged him to notice and respond to injustices. Later in life, his father and mother would always continue to support King's choices, though they were forced at times to witness the tragic consequences of those choices, including their son's premature death.
Nelson Mandela is no different, ~middle class family start, lots of opportunities given to study, supportive family.
Parker Bell
I actually have been told this.
I was recommended an eighth so I picked up a book on mycology and grew my own. Was great to get out of my shell for a bit. Spent a night with my closest friends had a blast
Gavin Gutierrez
While I agree with most of what you said, you can still consider it a burden you are simultaneously blessed and cursed with.
It's no fun to walk on an earth where most people don't understand you.
Aaron Cruz
My bad. I was trying to explain my opinion from that angle 'cause it made sense to me that way, but I guess I got off-topic
The same principle applies though, I think. If high intelligence is valuable to you, you won't find it a burden, despite the more complex nature it brings about in terms of being more aware of the things around you, having a deeper understanding about things (which can bring greater concerns or dissatisfactions), etc.
If you're of low intelligence, you don't face most of those drawbacks, so it's less of a burden that way because of the more simplistic nature of your brain and what it knows
I hope that makes more sense, sorry if it doesn't
Joseph Sanchez
Idk I'm pretty dumb most of the time.
Nolan Roberts
>asking this question on Yas Forums the black hole of morons
Joshua Rivera
I think although Yas Forums has a lot of idiots, there are also a lot of very smart people who frequent it for the lulz (and porn)
Don't quote me on that tho, maybe we're all rarted beyond repair
Robert Kelly
It's definitely a burden in the "getting pussy" department. No hot chick wants to suck the sheltered valedictorian's dick.
Ethan Wilson
no one pretends to be an intellectual, and you cannot, really. "intellectual" is an on/off switch, and it is this...
"an intellectual is a person who has somehow become educated beyond his/her intellect."
it's neither a compliment nor an insult for a wolf to be called a wolf.
Ethan Bell
I don't know that it's "your bad". You're speaking from a perspective of a person who, for whatever reason, is not easily stimulated and you associate that with collective vision. It just is what it is, but if you could work with the "how and why" you aren't stimulated, you'd see what I'm saying from the outside in. Just take a deep breath and think about how very many awful things are not happening to you right now.
Jordan Ross
Thank you user. I will.
Landon Morgan
Duality of chaos and order
Yin and Yang
A balance of good and evil
Bentley Anderson
I suppose some of us must carry the burden of being smarter than out window-licking Yas Forumsrethen.
Owen Long
>no one pretends to be an intellectual
To whose authority? Yours, the pseudo-intellectual's?
>"intellectual" is an on/off switch, and it is this...
I don't see how this is relevant to the conversation
>"an intellectual is a person who has somehow become educated beyond his/her intellect."
That is not what an intellectual entails. You can try to redefine words like that, but you're just gonna look like the moron you are.
>it's neither a compliment nor an insult for a wolf to be called a wolf.
I didn't use it as an insult in any way shape or form. I used the word as an accurate description of the shallow attempt you perform in this thread to come off as smart when you've not shown anything speaking remotely of intelligence with this sort of non-saying.
Liam Perry
Actually, agnostics and atheists tend to have higher IQs, which shows that intelligence and the irreligious are correlated more often than not. There are many studies on this. There's even a wikipedia article on it.
Ian Roberts
Yeah, I agree
Not quite; I'm probably the most easily stimulated fool out there. I was giggling to myself for nearly 5 minutes straight when I saw . I never claimed to be an intellectual lol
I just think it follows suit that the more complex any 'thing' gets, the more difficult it can be to manage or fully grasp, but often times that comes with the benefit of a more holistic, "complete" representation of said thing
On a personal level though, I find great stimulation in just about anything. Even this really really really funny banana.
Colton Nguyen
that's fine.
btw you're not replying to I am
Andrew Miller
Most people don't have the time to reflect endlessly; on things that interest them.
John Morris
That's fine, it changes little.
You both use reddit spacing either way.
Ryder Evans
what do you think of Arthur Clarke
Jack Perry
Brayden Robinson
what of him?
Adrian Reed
I've never had an account to go on Reddit. My manner of communicating in text comes from Compuserve and AoL in the 80s.
Lucas Long
just wondered what you think of him. he said, "“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.
[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]”
Logan Bennett
Ah yes my great intellect also makes me greatly inflexible to adapt myself to future developments and untoward presentation.
I'm not sure what you want me to say here beyond me disagreeing?
Justin Green
(2nd thoughts)
After reading through the thread. I think intelligence is a tool. If you don't know how to wield it, you might hurt yourself.
Also thanks to everyone (it's nice insight)
Alexander Garcia
>something innate to you is now a tool
>I think intelligence is a tool.
>tool
>One who lacks the mental capacity to know he is being used. A fool. A cretin. Characterized by low intelligence and/or self-steem.
kek
Logan Murphy
>I'm not sure what you want me to say here
You disagree with the statement, you mean? ok, but you said in the above post the statement makes the person who said it look like a moron. Does Arthur Clarke look like a moron?
Ian Roberts
Depends on the circumstance. As others have pointed out in this thread, I sometimes wonder if I’m as smart as I think I am. I contemplate it for a while and reflect on my life, and ultimately arrive to the same conclusion:
I think I’m smarter than most people—which isn’t saying much. I think a lot of anons in this thread are, too. But practically none of us are absolute geniuses, and that’s okay.
Higher intelligence is a burden, but none of us would turn down the opportunity to increase our IQ if it were possible. So I have to conclude it’s more an advantage. Kind of like money I guess. There are certainly stressors that come with being rich, but virtually everyone would rather be more wealthy.
Mason Gutierrez
Does he look like a bitch?
Owen Powell
lol what's untoward about my presentation. I think you're reaching.