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Q：What's it like to have a 150 IQ? Is life easier?
What are the advantages you feel you have over others? Are there any disadvantages?
Answered by Michael Johnson
I've repeatedly tested at 162 and I am a complete dumbass. Life is hard. I may get things easier than others, but I don't seem to have the attention span to implement them. I feel like my processor is overclocked but my memory speed doesn't match my bus.
Answered by Leon Matthias
When I was thirteen I scored 161 on the Cattell B test at a session administered by British Mensa.
Since then I have not gotten into Oxford University, not gotten into Cambridge University, achieved an Upper Second class degree, and failed seven out of fifteen exams whilst studying to be a chartered accountant.
It's not about IQ; it's about how hard you work and what you make of the opportunities you are given.
Answered by CamMi Pham
Two years ago I had a chance to have a chat with this charming 30 something young man. He told me he is one of the people who have the highest IQ in Toronto. I cannot recall exactly the number, but it was over 160.
He also told me his brother is also very smart. The brother is in the top 5 in Toronto.
Guess what these two men were doing at that point.
The brother was working in a convenience store at a gas station. My friend was doing an entry level job. He told me he can learn anything within a few days. However, he gets bored easily and cannot figure out what he wants to do in life.
Is being too smart a blessing or a curse?
Being smart doesn't make your life easier. Intelligence is like a tool. It all depends on how you use it.
Answered by Kerry Watson
I was once married to a man with an IQ of 170. After we broke up he was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome and ADD. Life is in no way easier; in many ways it is far more difficult. Nobody seems logical; everything and everyone is a shade of gray, nothing is black and white. Even easy decisions get mired in possibilities. Sure, work is super-easy, but it's also boring and hard to find real challenges, and one gets mired in the politics that are illogical and emotional and downright stupid. His difficulty in life was trying to reduce everything to a model. Of course the world cannot be reduced to a model. In a discussion, he would try to define the criteria by which to judge the discussion (the model), then he would "win" because he had defined them. Most people didn't catch on to this. And nobody gets issued common sense to go with a high IQ. The two might even be inversely correlated.
EDIT: I have an IQ of 140, and since IQ can vary by 20 points so I'll tell you about me. Obviously I still take things too literally. Intelligence does not give you insight into yourself. My mother did not believe in revealing my IQ because she thought it would "go to my head" so I didn't know I was intelligent until I was an adult. I started school at age 4 and 6 weeks, yet my friends were always several years ahead of me. From this I developed a self-image of being short and immature, even though today I am neither. In sixth grade I tried to read every adult book in the local public library, about one per day. I tested for the Air Force in the top 2% for linguistic ability and became a linguist.
I can do pretty much anything I put my mind to, so at times I took on far more than any one human being should do. I worked full time, and went to college, and raised a daughter, and built a house with my hands all at the same time. I have skydived, finished the San Francisco marathon, raced cars at famous road tracks and was even a track instructor for car clubs for several years. I scuba dive, ride a motorcycle and ride horses. I have a lot of kinesthetic intelligence as well as linguistic.
Work-wise I have mostly worked with lawyers and techies because I like being around smart people. I earned an MBA and owned my own business for much of my life. I worked myself nearly to death because I loved the rewards, I worked for a few wonderful companies that were meritocracies and I was like a rat hitting the bar for a pellet.
I am easily able to translate technical subjects into plain language and have been a technical writer for the last ten years. In 2003 I wrote the first book on osCommerce, an open source e-commerce program, and have continued to write books on various open source e-commerce programs because it is easy and rewarding for me.
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