Tfw way below average cognitive abilities

Nothing about that CT is specific to anoxic injury. And there's almost no midline shift.

Start reading books, not e-books only real books, it might help you

You’re both absolutely correct. It’s a normal CT other than the still being in a sort of weird place. I posted this to lure the other medfags out.

>but that's wrong

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Eat raw pig intestines!
It has beneficial bacteria that heals your brain!

No, I’ve fucked or squandered my own cognitive abilities. I can no longer focus on difficult tasks, go to sleep way too late and procrastinate constantly. What good is are a 28 ACT and 1280 SAT and high school 4.0 gpa from 4+ years ago when you’re a lost dopamine junkie with no resume?

Just get a job, any job. You'll quickly ascend to management and beyond because you'll be the most intelligent person most places have ever hired.

t. Burnout Gifted kid grocery store manager

I'm in the phase of the "everything is meaningless" but i've been told that's just before people give their life their own meaning and finally be happy. I hope they're right

> 28 ACT
>1280 SAT

user you were never smart, just smart enough to think critically and not be retarded(A.K.A mediocre)

Not him, but

>SAT and ACT at 95th percentile
>not smart
Pick one

No need to be a jealous brainlet, user.

science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/210/4475/1232.full.pdf
"There's a young student at this university," says Lorber, "who has an IQ of 126, has gained a first-class honors degree in mathematics, and is socially completely normal. And yet the boy has virtually no brain." The student's physician at the university noticed that the youth had a slightly larger than normal head, and so referred him to Lorber, simply out of interest. "When we did a brain scan on him," Lorber recalls, "we saw that instead of the normal 4.5-centimeter thickness of brain tissue between the ventricles and the cortical surface, there was just a thin layer of mantle measuring a millimeter or so. His cranium is filled mainly with cerebrospinal fluid."

I am literally dumber and less successful than someone with brainchad genetics that lost 75% of their brain volume

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>in med school, rotating at smaller regional hospital
>a visitor slips and cracks her head on the ground
>ends up getting a CT
>the images become available, but they haven't been read yet
>open them up and see this
>mfw nobody had any idea
That was a bit of a surprise.

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if you're socially retarded a high iq won't do much for you
t. 147 iq/$13.00 hr cook

it is simple, yoou must burn the dog

I can't read more than 10 pages before I have to stop. I just get so disinterested

thats because the part of your brain that has the most to do with intelligence is the stuff on the outside

brain matter on the inside is mostly just connective tissue and the like

This is simply not possible. Are you sure you didn't get your iq results from some feel good test on normiebook?

I've managed to turn myself from fairly bright into a brainlet by a combination of head trauma from combat sports and depression/inactivity.

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I was a dumb piece of shit when I was younger.

I'm not sure if I was secretly intelligent and wasting my potential, but after a few years of trying I figured out that thinking is just another practical skill. You can get better at it but you require practice, reflection, and adjustment.
After a while other people begin to consider you as an intelligent person, and just don't notice all of the little slip-ups you make when you have to think in a way you haven't practiced. But even then the base skills are transferable and you become able to pick up new ways of thinking quicker. To everybody but you there is absolutely no difference between a naturally intelligent person and a dumb piece of shit who learned how to copy the real thing.

Start with the book "How to think about weird things". It's an extremely basic guide to critical thinking but covers a few tactics that you can practice in your spare time. I don't care if you're a shit reader because I am too, if it takes you half a year to read then take half a year to read it; the important thing is that you *practice* what you're reading about on a daily basis.

"Find things to think about, or unanswered questions to answer. Consider what you know about the problem and reach a conclusion, whether they're good conclusions or not doesn't matter because the second you reach one you have to ask yourself *why* those conclusions are correct. Try to poke holes in your own logic, if you can't find any then you aren't thinking hard enough; see if you can observe patterns in your thinking and consciously avoid falling into those patterns.

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>tested at 156 at age 16 (Raven's advanced matrices, administered by a psych)
>proceed to binge drink and give in completely to chronic laziness in college, but do ok and gradate with engineering degree due to ability to cram
>get very repetitive unchallenging job that I languish in for 2 years and slip into periodic mild depression
>mostly a functional adult despite having zero self-actualization
>long-term romantic relationship ends due to infidelity and something breaks within me
>can't deal with the grief and sperg out resulting in losing my job
>literally do nothing but sit at my desk looking at the internet for 2 straight years while eating away at my savings
>develop problems with working memory
>start to develop cluster B personality traits
>jettison or mostly disengage from family and friends
>reach a "fuck this" point and decide that I need to either just KMS myself or actually live my life
>go from skinnyfat to 1/2/3/4
>start teaching myself programming and putting together a few personal projects
>reaching out to old friends
>it's amazing how stupid I am, how hard it is to maintain my train of thought, and how hamstrung my ability to learn is relative to my teen years
>but it's slowly getting better
Sleep makes more difference than anything else, in my experience. Try building up a solid month of getting 8 uninterrupted hours every single night during the same block of time, and you'll likely feel less retarded.

I think the biggest reason why people get insecure about their intelligence is because they've neglected it for so long that its "atrophied".

Even the most "woke" of us are addicted to passively consuming media than we'd like to admit or even realize. Turn off the screen, and pickup up a book or socialize f2f.

I’m the guy with those scores and I agree. For all people who actually count in the world, 105 is the bare minimum acceptable IQ. Mine is just a standard deviation and change above that. It’s mediocre compared to the hundreds of millions of high IQ, skilled, robotic or Chad denizens if the world who are more gifted in dozens of ways.

Anyway I’m thinking about reading some bullshit by ayn rand or something to get my brain back into being able to fixate on boring shit for a long time and redevelop reading comprehension skills

Ali was cool for shitting on BBC's early stage PC shit but he also pussed out of serving in the military.

>Islam says no violence! (lmao)
Then be a medic like every other pacifist you faggot.

Probably took one as a kid and doesn't realize his IQ is only 147 compared to 12-year-olds. He may have been ahead of the curve at that point but it says nothing about his adult capabilities.

Hehe

Play more video games and don't give up if you keep losing. Start with shit like contra and smb 3.

>cognitive
The fact that you can use that word in a sentence puts you above most people I interact with on a daily basis

lol, iq literally doesn't matter in progressing through blue collar jobs. it's work ethic and willing to self-flagellate yourself that matters.

I'm a NEET and sleep 10 hours a day. Sleep isn't my problem.

>achieve nirvana through brain damage
Kekd

Intelligence is just super overvalued.

Looks, knowledge and connections are all that matter in the world.

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I think a doctor told me to take thiamine or something when I was drinking a lot so I don't completely fuck my brain. If you drink a lot do that.

Could try brain teaser/training apps on your phone.

I don't drink much anymore since having kids.

vidya games could probably help, but playing those since five it feels like a lobotomy victim could get through a lot of it. I guess it could improve memorization, it at least sounds fun.

Don t sleep 10 hours if you are older than 20 21. You should sleep from 7 to 9 at max, try waking up at multiple of 1.5h