Is it normal to think that i'm smarter than most people?

If you were smart you would have made your post shorter.

TOO LONG! DIDN'T READ!

I suddenly feel like watching the "trolol" guy on youtube.

By the way, smart people don't go around making posts on a site called "is it normal" and raving about their intelligence. That is just downright stupid and obnoxious. I honestly hope you're just trolling.

It's frustrating being around people who are glaringly stupid and either don't realize or don't accept that they are. It's even worse to work under someone like that. I wouldn't have relevant advice to give on this as I constantly find myself frustrated by this as well, so I can certainly empathize.

Your scholastic story does sound unusual, so you must quite clever compared to others.

If you tend to focus on and value being smarter than most people and that works for you, then that's good, however, it sounds like that isn't completely the case.

I have also had thoughts of being smarter than most other people during my younger years, though in a way that has alienated me from others if anything. In some cases, I think it has strengthened a pattern of behaviour, where if therë́ was something I didn't understand I would keep it to myself and not frankly admit that, at that moment, it didn't make sense to. I would rather go around thinking about the problem by myself, instead of discussing it humbly with others.

I remember how, when I was once a book about Niels Bohr, how it struck me as different and good, when it was described how his focus was not on his own achievements in discovering things within the science of physics, that he was more interested in the fact that it was discovered.

You may have thought that intelligence can be valued for itself and it can be viewed as a means and thereby not important by itself. You may value your own cleverness, but it may mean next to nothing for someone else to whom your kind of smarts is not useful.

In any case, you are as smart as you are, regardless of how smart other people are.

I think until psychologists are able to give us a satisfying definition of intelligence, it's too early to say who is and who isn't intelligent with any degree of objectivity. Intelligence is a vast umbrella term used to describe a large number of skills which are probably not inherently connected, and it follows that individuals are good at some of those skills and not good at others.

That aside, the most practical lay definition of "intelligence" is the socially constructed definition: how far other people label you as intelligent. The only trick to being labelled "intelligent" is to surround yourself with people who place higher value on the skills which you have and place lower value on the skills you don't have. For some people this is easy, either because the skills they have are valued in many different societies or because the society they already live in values the skills they already have. We live in a world where knowledge retention and abstract reasoning (i.e. from what I can gather, your skills) have a high level of cultural power almost everywhere you could possibly find yourself, so it doesn't surprise me that most people would find you intelligent.

I was going to troll you but then I read your post. And you have deeply touched me with your intelligence. Good day to you sir

"I've also noticed that virtually all people think they're smart... They are biased by their ego and the limitations of their own mind in assessing their own mind."

So you just joined the club, huh?

Most people are idiots. Are you?

Good for you. What do you want a cookie?

Join MENSA. It's a good group of people. You might by chance meet me at an event.

Case in point, Christopher Hitchens is a genius.

Is he humble?
Fuck no

But he gets away with it because deep down everybody knows he's smarter than them, and he knows they know it, and they know he knows they know it, and he knows that they know that he knows that they know it.

So ya dude, welcome to the fraternity

the way you say things.., well, your incredibly, absolutely smart! so you must be happy coz, it's normal. you are perfectly normal.., how I wish I could be like you sometimes.., to think higher or even above everyone else.
not putting myself down..., sometimes we used to think that we are better than others and even best in some particular instances., there's nothing wrong with it. we have the attitude of being perfectionist at times.., and highly praised ourselves and making proud of what we have done. that's who we are so that's pretty normal an any ways.., what important is were not doing bad to someone else.

You're smarter than me. Ima. Moron