Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder... by naasking on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:19AM (#21255747)

> This may seem like an insensitive question and I don't mean it in that way but why can't you "think your way out of those problems"

Because in your mind, motivation follows naturally from logically deduced need. Motivation isn't so connected in most people's minds; it's an emotional thing, which isn't necessarily driven by rational thought.

I'm sure you've seen people doing something wrong even though they know it's wrong.

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Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder... by bsanr2 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:43AM (#21255839)

I don't think it's necessarily emotional. The world does not have set inputs and outputs, and effort can be expended on activities that turn out to be arbitrarily fruitless. Decoupling expenditure of effort from expectation of reward would naturally and logically reduce motivation for even logically-deduced need.

I think trauma and disappointment are far more prevalent than true sloth or vice, if such things as the later two exist at all.

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