Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder...
by yibg on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:39PM
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This was true for me. Up until college things came so easily that I barely had to do any work to get good grades, so I didn’t.
Fortunately college was a kick in the pants for me. First year I went in with the same attitude as high school, that I can just study the night before an exam and ace it. Didn’t go so well in college and I barely passed first year. I got scared enough that hunkered down and really tried for the rest of college. College grades aside I think that experience of having to stick with it and work through adversity really helped me later in life.
Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder...
by chrisco255 on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:14PM
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I think K-12 education system makes high IQ people lazy because they don't need to try hard to get through a curriculum that was designed for people who learn more slowly. So this sets in as a habit.
I went through gifted programs and thinking back, I probably could have learned calculus by middle school if my education had adapted to my learning rate, but it didn't. We still had the same text books as every other 4th grader, we just covered more of the material in a year.
I remember in school understanding and mastering subjects without much trouble and work but once a subject got too hard it was time to move to something else. So for most of my life that has been my method of operating. Unfortunately,for me, that makes it impossible to get far in any career.
Hard work and the ability to work through adversity is what's needed for a successful life. I wish school and parents would stop using IQ as a measure for future success. It's not a good predictor.