I struggled really bad in school, failed out of my English language class and reading classes a couple times. I had dyslexia and my parents decided school just “wasn’t your thing” so I would stop going to school for weeks at a time to go on trips with my dad. Eventually I just dropped out completely.
But I think my work ethic and endurance is borderline obsessive lol. So things that take me 3x more effort to learn I just crunch in so I’m not 3x behind. I think I’m pretty emotionally intelligent though, hard headed in my beliefs.
I’m “knowledgeable” in a few fields because I write journals and do memory exercises on things I care about, like native plants or animal behavior and languages. But, I’d never call myself smart. I’m a slow learner and struggle to problem solve or adjust to new situations and environments.
Kholat, good comrade. https://www.lumosity.com/en/ is just for people like you. It will not improve reasoning ability or cognitive function, but it is a good way wake up your frontal lobes. You can get 3 free problems each day. Brain fitness is within your reach.
Since you're not an American, you might not have ever heard the Thomas Edison adage: "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Intellectual brilliance is overrated. There are lots of highly intelligent people who have miserable lives and never achieve much. There are also people who will never score well on an IQ test but accomplish a lot because of their interest in learning new things, their ability to focus on a goal and their dogged determination to achieve it.
How would you rate your intelligence?
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I struggled really bad in school, failed out of my English language class and reading classes a couple times. I had dyslexia and my parents decided school just “wasn’t your thing” so I would stop going to school for weeks at a time to go on trips with my dad. Eventually I just dropped out completely.
But I think my work ethic and endurance is borderline obsessive lol. So things that take me 3x more effort to learn I just crunch in so I’m not 3x behind. I think I’m pretty emotionally intelligent though, hard headed in my beliefs.
I’m “knowledgeable” in a few fields because I write journals and do memory exercises on things I care about, like native plants or animal behavior and languages. But, I’d never call myself smart. I’m a slow learner and struggle to problem solve or adjust to new situations and environments.
Uh. 4.
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Kholat, good comrade. https://www.lumosity.com/en/ is just for people like you. It will not improve reasoning ability or cognitive function, but it is a good way wake up your frontal lobes. You can get 3 free problems each day. Brain fitness is within your reach.
Since you're not an American, you might not have ever heard the Thomas Edison adage: "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Intellectual brilliance is overrated. There are lots of highly intelligent people who have miserable lives and never achieve much. There are also people who will never score well on an IQ test but accomplish a lot because of their interest in learning new things, their ability to focus on a goal and their dogged determination to achieve it.