When the term "high IQ" is used, it has to be put in perspective.
As an example, an IQ of 140 occurs 1-in-261. Loosely, that means in a "typical" elementary school with about 500 children, there would be 2 such children.
Every single point tick upward makes it
exponentially more rare.
142 = 1-in-391
150 = 1-in-2,330
160 = 1-in 31,560
165 = 1-in-136,074
170 = 1-in-652,598
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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
142 officially tested at a young age in school...my mother never let me forget it as I underachieved through life...lmao
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Mike, I feel your pain. I know it first hand.
I'm writing this because there is a lot of misunderstanding about what comes with a high IQ. There is a lot of baggage.
When people talk about how important
emotional IQ, they couldn't be more right. Without that, there is a lot missing.
People also do not understand that there is no free lunch. Not for anything, and IQ is no different.
High IQ people - especially
very high IQs - always face challenges, many are social. Often (usually?) the higher the IQ, the larger the social challenges.
There is a wonderful book that changed my viewpoint on a lot of things. Especially on adult underachievement, of which I was always a card-carrying member.
Your Own Worst Enemy: Breaking the Habit of Adult Underachievement
The guys who wrote this book, were originally famous for being expert about highly-gifted-but-underachieving children.
There is a story in the beginning of the book about how they were doing a radio show from Chicago one day about under-achieving children. When they began to take calls, they realized that the callers were not talking about their children, but themselves!
They were talking to the high-IQ children who were now grown up!
It caused them to change their direction.
Dave