people seem to see me as some kind of genius, and maybe i'm "smart", but i don't feel like i'm smart enough for it to matter. i've taken up learning in my free time because i desperately want to be smart
any other bots know this feel? everyone thinks you're so capable but you feel so hopeless. i wish i was special or remarkable in some way but i'm not. i just want to slam my head into an axe blade
my relatives also think i'm smart, but i just realised that i'm probably dumb as shit. basically i met sby who's literally more than 10x as productive as i am and i didn't really have much of a life these past years.
feels bad man.
I wish I was less smart than I was because I wasted my potential ad feel guilt for it.
I used to be top of my class back in elementary and middle school. High school came along and before I knew it I was struggling to be able to graduate. Outside of academics I am pretty sure most people who meet me assume I am slow on first impression. I dont know what it is, it just take all my willpower to act like a normal person would. Laugh at a joke, nod to show understanding, keep eye contact, shit like that. And if some curveball comes up in a conversation that does not allow me to stick to these rules I make up for myself, I become a stuttering, halting, autistic mess.
I wish i was dumber, so that i wouldn't think so hard and so much on every thing that happens around me and everyone's opinion. Instead id do watever i wanna do without me feeling how it'll affect someone else. But anxiety and paranoia kicks in and drives me away
yes, do you try nootropics and supplement with krill oil?
Intelligens is useless without ambition. Ppl around me think I'm smart because of decent problem solving, but I don't have goals and shit. It's a waste.
Thought I was smart as hell in middle school because I didn't study but got ok grades, but then high school happened & I realized middle school was just easy & I'm fucking stupid, the lack of studying fucked me too because I couldn't remember basic shit they assume you'd know from MS. I remember straight up giving up on a math test & loudly calling myself retarded, the teacher tried encouraging me but I just felt really bad & ended up dropping out. Regret it, don't even know where to start to learn all that shit I should've in school
Hits too close to home, partner.
If you think you are smart but have nothing to show for it and are a basement dwelling neet... You are not smart.
>best test and scores and grades in my high school
>u must be retarded because ur a NEET
Why do you deny the truth?
I'm not though? I got perfect scires in the SAT and ACT taking the tests only once and I had a 4.5 GPA and never scored below a 5 on AP tests. Why do you want to out me as a brainlet so bad?
If you are a basement-dwelling neet you are a brainlet. If you were smart you would actually figure out how to have a good life and do what you want.
>If you were smart you would actually figure out how to have a good life and do what you want
I do what I want, sorry I'm not feeding the machine like you. Judging by your definition of the word smart Forrest Gump would be a genius. Plenty of smart people in history have been absolutely miserable. You're bending a term past its original meaning to fit your motive.
"Just don't be X"
Yep, although I think I need to be more motivated more
>exam soon and I haven't started revising
The smart people in history accomplished something. If your entire life consists of fapping to animu then you are not smart.
I want to believe that our brains can be rewired so to speak to learn new things, become better problem solvers ,etc but not really sure if its even possible at all despite new emerging studies alluding to such.
I would like to think im atleast average intelligence, but ever since I dropped out of college, fucked up 2 brainlet jobs, and failing at just being a productive individual I just don't know anymore. Everyone around me just seems smarter, more successful, more productive.
Just better human beings than me.
I wish I was smarter better faster stronger more than ever hour after our work is never over
So your definition of the word smart is "accomplished"? Use the word you mean and say successful. Get out your own ass and don't contradict the well-accepted definition of a word because you don't like accrediting anything to people who are regarded as failures. You're embarrassing yourself by still posting.
What makes you think you are smart? Meme tests are not an indicator. If you are smart, then you will use that power to get success and girls and whatever you want.
honestly i hate subjects pertaining to intelligence because it either turns into a mass of circlejerk faggots or endless swaths of retards yelling "ur not smart"
i think the point of OP's post was to highlight how most people see a lot of us as smart when we're really dumb as fuck, in the grand scheme of things.
this. meeting productive people kills the man.
>le stoicism
except unironically. train your brain to ignore fleeting easy routes. it's all about discipline, in the end. being smart might help you gain knowledge quicker but if you never do anything then it doesn't really matter, and knowledge is probably what's most important. become self-learners. it's extremely fulfilling to be able to apply your knowledge, or to be able to guide a beginner in your subject area.
>success and girls
I like how you immediately assume I'm a hedonist and my drives are as primal as yours. I already said I was at the top of my class at a top school before I dropped out. I'm well read, have a natural aptitude for everything I try to understand, and have 99th percentile memory retention. Running on the hamster wheel of work, whores, and paper is no way to live and I rejected it.
to be fair ACT and SAT are less meme tests than IQ is. but i have a hard time believing that actually managed a "perfect score" in both the ACT and the SAT.
You're not very smart if you are not planning your future. You cannot leech off your parents forever.
I'm just stalling for my suicide. I'm actively trying to estrange myself from them.
You won't do it.
Otherwise you would have done it by now.
You still be here with the rest of us paying for the consequences of your sloth.
I already tried once and it failed by bad luck. I realized I couldn't do it with a good conscience while the people I cared about knew I had died. Think what you want though, idc.
can you both shut the fuck up
You're so dumb you can't even do suicide right.
>the definition of intelligence is success
Go back to the hole you came from.
There's always one of you retards.
Found the brainlet in denial.
What you bots don't understand is that you are all smarter than you realize, it' the depression and endless internet abuse that's making you retarded. Get that shit treated and start doing/learning what ever you like (most of you are in highschool or college while living of daddy's bucks so there's no reason not to pick up a hobby or two). Accumulating knowledge or experience is easy when you start young, so stop wasting time and get to it. I believe in you!
intelligence is subjective
I consistently scored in the top percentiles in every standardized test in HS and I was always known as a smart guy.
Despite the fact that I brag about it and consider this objective I still feel like I am an idiot.
(OP)
Just like Socrates said,
"The only thing I know is that I know nothing"
Being smart and using your full potential are not the same thing.
Being smart with bad discipline is worse than Being below average with great discipline
the sheer number of self-proclaimed geniuses because they managed to do well on some shitty test in a lousy high school on this board is hilarious
also: fuck SAT - if you sat that one, scored as high as you claimed and didn't go to some ivy league uni there's gotta be sth srsly wrong with you
>hurr i don't want to feed the machine
what a joke
Genetic trash cannot get much smarter.
Their capacities are limited.
Such cases
Hard work really beats natural talent. It's true. (As long as the talent guy doesn't work hard )
>As long as the talent guy doesn't work hard
Which is not going to happen.
just what kind of shitty peers did you grow up with? have you ever been at a university?