You can't know what's going on inside someones head. They may act like that to conceal their intelligence, something that's very common. I ALWAYS act like a nutcase, but am quite sharp under the surface with a 118 point IQ. So you'd think I was an "idiot" and never realise that I could run rings around you.
I knew a bloke with a 170 IQ but you'd think he was retarded if you met him. You could spend a whole day with him completely unaware that he is smarter than Bill Gates.
One: "we all think we're better than the next person."
Two: "You can't know what's going on inside someones head."
In statement number one you suggest you know what everyone thinks and in statement number two you suggest it is not possible to do what you did in statement number one.
Sometimes it's not acting, it's different flavors of intelligence in different settings.
I'd say you've gotta be highly intelligent in a certain way to make it to the top of a drug cartel. Does that mean Stephen Hawking could run a drug cartel? Could the kingpin of the cartel make it in academia?
Intelligence is basically fixed. For instance they say if you exercise your brain alot you can raise your IQ by a couple of points, but that's it, no more, no less.
But behaviour is easy for people modify, so if you find someone acting like an idiot around you it may be that they are simply trying to fit in with what they percieve those around them to be.
Most act like fools in the company of actual fools.
But I think you're mixing two things up.
Because what you seem to be talking about is "emotional maturity" but that has nothing to do with intelligence. You can be a genius and still be really immature.
Is it normal that I don't like self conceited persons?
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You can't know what's going on inside someones head. They may act like that to conceal their intelligence, something that's very common. I ALWAYS act like a nutcase, but am quite sharp under the surface with a 118 point IQ. So you'd think I was an "idiot" and never realise that I could run rings around you.
I knew a bloke with a 170 IQ but you'd think he was retarded if you met him. You could spend a whole day with him completely unaware that he is smarter than Bill Gates.
*Slap, then a punch for being so naive.
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One: "we all think we're better than the next person."
Two: "You can't know what's going on inside someones head."
In statement number one you suggest you know what everyone thinks and in statement number two you suggest it is not possible to do what you did in statement number one.
Paradox or wrong?
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WTF.
In the first statement I'm saying that "everyone THINKS they are the best person ever"
And the second is "the truth that we ignore in order to believe the first statement"
No paradox in the statements at all, they are ABOUT a "mental paradox" within people though.
Sometimes it's not acting, it's different flavors of intelligence in different settings.
I'd say you've gotta be highly intelligent in a certain way to make it to the top of a drug cartel. Does that mean Stephen Hawking could run a drug cartel? Could the kingpin of the cartel make it in academia?
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Intelligence is basically fixed. For instance they say if you exercise your brain alot you can raise your IQ by a couple of points, but that's it, no more, no less.
But behaviour is easy for people modify, so if you find someone acting like an idiot around you it may be that they are simply trying to fit in with what they percieve those around them to be.
Most act like fools in the company of actual fools.
But I think you're mixing two things up.
Because what you seem to be talking about is "emotional maturity" but that has nothing to do with intelligence. You can be a genius and still be really immature.