What's it like to be smart? I've always wondered what

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>>8638848
Intelligent people have ideologies.
Theories over facts anyday.

>>8638848
You mean redpilled?

You see whites being genocided everywhere and women being inferior at everything

It ain't pretty kid

>>8638876
No, I mean intelligent people

>>8638848
You just analyze and organize information faster and from more angles. If you ever sub-vocalize you are a plebe.

>>8638877
Intelligent in what way?

>>8638848
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHlRtGqFODc
Word for the wise

>>8638848
raw intelligence is an overrated factor in life. very few, if any, pursuits in the world require genius-level iqs. you can pretty much figure out anything you want as long as you're not below average. at worst it will take you longer.

in terms of your perception of the world the things that matter are knowledge, common sense, self-awareness, intellectual rigor etc. if your raw intelligence quadrupled right now you would not suddenly see past the veil of illusion and into the truth, that's a fantasy. you'd just be a quicker idiot.

>>8638884
you know, like when you're redpilled. Seeing white genocide everywhere and women as inferior and so on.

>>8638909
Inferior is such a funny word I would recommend using the word different.

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>>8638876

>>8638916
your penis is different than mine

>>8638926
mines thicker like a voss bottle

>>8638926
Lol

>>8638902
Not sure if I'm reading bullshit or insight

>>8638876
>kid

Yes, I'm definitely the kid here

>>8638883
How do I stop subvocalising?

>>8638945
and if your intelligence increased tenfold, you still wouldn't know!

>>8638887
Is Sam Hyde just good at sounding wise or is he an actual genius? I feel like his iPhone videos show incredible social insight but I also feel like he exaggerates a lot and is just good at explaining things

>>8638883
Is sub-vocalisation bad for memorisation? I need to remember a bunch of stuff in the next few days and I keep whispering out loud to explain concepts

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>>8638848
if you're asking that question, you probably are "smarter" than at least three quarters of society.
also
>>8638874
this is a pretty good answer

>>8638957
Learn to meditate and make it a daily habit.

>>8638848
Overrated

An iq of 130ish (or the equivalent intelligence of being in the 98th percentile if you don't believe in iq) is enough for any substansial intellectual persuits short of Einstein or Newton level of work

Extenialism is probably the most enduring factor. Yeah, you know a lot, about nearly everything but what is it worth? You can't relate to much people, you see through their social interactions and frivolousness. But you envy them for their successor, often more successful than you

>>8638970
for best retention you should put the book/whatever away for a bit and repeat what you just learned in your own words, as if you're explaining it to another person. this worked for me all the way through college. years later i still remember completely useless things i learned this way.

eliminating subvocalization entirely is a dumb "speed reading" meme and speed reading is bullshit. don't worry about it.

>>8638976
But I have incredibly severe depression and OCD

>>8638970
It works fine as a crutch, but it's not ideal. Don't fix what isn't broken if time is of the essence; memorizing without sub-vocalizing takes a lot longer when you're not used to it.

>>8638957
Mindfulness and practice. Daily mindfulness meditation lays a good mental substrate for learning or unlearning any habit... There's no quick fix, I'm afraid.

>>8638981
>for best retention you should put the book/whatever away for a bit and repeat what you just learned in your own words, as if you're explaining it to another person. this worked for me all the way through college. years later i still remember completely useless things i learned this way.

This is incredible advice, thank you.

>>8638981
That's exactly what I've been doing and I feel like it really helps me learn concepts and retrieve the proper terminology. Thanks

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>/lit/
>intelligent

>>8638964
he's just better at rhetoric than the average internet autist so other internet autists think he's a genius, he heavily uses irony to make his generic advice and poltard views seem different.
it's funny because he makes fun of TED talk for it's substanceless inspirational material while doing the exact same thing except he tries to make it sound as anti-inspirational ("realistic") as possible while really looking to achieve the same effect. he's basically if TED was run by 4chan.

>>8638996
This

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>>8639002
>Sam was always a poltard

>>8639019
yea what's your point?

>>8639002
Agreed. I like MDE but I actually hate most of their fans. The comment section is like a competition as to who can be the most edgy and they actually take the red/blue pill dichotomy seriously.

You tend to love and admire people more, but you also get more angry about dishonesty in the press, callousness and stupidity and corruption in politics, local bigotries, globalized systems of exploitation, etc.

I think that, in spite of learning that men are such hypocrites, you learn to love them more, but to hate the actions, beliefs, hypocrisies that should be beneath them.

One becomes more like to that phrase with which George MacDonald described God: "easy to please, but hard to satisfy."

>>8639002
We'll see if he has original ideas when his book comes out

>>8639039
I wish he'd just reject the alt-right and say fuck you. I know that he's less of a national socialist/nationalist and more of a capitalist/libertarian so he's already pretty separated from the cool red pill kids

>>8639073
Yeah, I think that's what irritates me most; that people take him at face value. He's obviously something like an anarcho-capitalist with some socially conservative views. I think he just likes to say that shit because its taboo and naturally as a libertarian he thinks that shouldn't be the case.

>>8639039
well sam himself is a redpill dude though.

>>8639084
>implying he's not a hardcore marxist that laughs at libtards and redpills alike

>>8639073
>>8639082
but he is a nationalist and quite possibly a neo-nazi. you guys should read the MDE reddit. there's a post straight out of pol where he talks about the decay of western civilization and other generic pol rhetoric.

>>8639091
the dude's entire shtick is ironic cringe comedy and you're going to quote his posts on reddit as proof of his real views?

>>8639090
>>8639100
that's exactly what i'm talking about. he hides behind his irony most of the time.
except when he doesn't.
https://www.reddit.com/r/milliondollarextreme/comments/3luw09/is_mde_becoming_more_right_leaning_from_a/
https://www.reddit.com/r/milliondollarextreme/comments/3l8zov/essential_sam_post_on_comedy_and_underlying/

>>8639106
here's him with weev, a self-admitted neo-nazi.
https://www.reddit.com/r/milliondollarextreme/comments/3hkexu/sam_doing_nazi_shit_with_infamous_neonazi_hacker/

>>8638848
As someone with really bad short term memory (I can't remember names, faces, numbers or clothes) but with a really good long term memory for any piece of information I find appealing (I could quote the first page of Sickness Unto Death at the age of seventeen for years, can still just about do it now, but only really because the whole passage was so dense) and an verbal IQ of 150, it's a lot like Bertrand Russel's depiction of philosophy: not seeing things in one way, but viewing the world in a myriad of different stances - while seeing them all interconnecting seamlessly. I think the truly intelligent never really settle for one viewpoint, or if they do, they do it over several decades of gazing.

But hell - maybe I'm just schizo.

>>8638945
It's insight.

"I can only see so far, because I stand on the shoulders of giants."

Intelligent people solve problems faster than everyone else. That's it. If you've ever been to a mensa get together you would quickly see there isn't one type of smart person. If anything there is more variety in the way people think the smarter they are.

>>8638902
>in terms of your perception of the world the things that matter are knowledge, common sense, self-awareness, intellectual rigor etc.

It helps, too, to have good habits of study, which are those moral habits which all fall under the umbrella of "hard work", but which are best separated for clarity. I quote from Newman: "diligence, assiduity, regularity, despatch, persevering application." These are some of the habits which keep the intellect alive, and without which it luxuriates and stagnates. IQ is, I agree, an airy nothing, to which I'm ashamed anybody gave a name. One can get along well enough without it. What they can't get along without is the moral habits which keep up the continual habit of assimilating new knowledge into a system and of reforming that system according to new knowledge. What an elementary school teacher calls "making connections", what cartoons show as a lightbulb suddenly flashing, these are results of the steady and continuous process in an active mind of comparing everything it knows against everything else it knows, in an attempt to make proper sense out of the mass. Sometimes this generates new ideas, or clears out old pernicious old ones. But one's mind, if it will do this, must be continuously working.

>>8639091
I haven't read the posts but I don't think that's pol rhetoric, it's closer to Molyneux, Hoppe, right-libertarianism stuff. Maybe I'm biased but I think he's far above the retards on /pol/. I think it's a huge stretch to say he's a neo-Nazi. In the "How I Survived High School" Q&A he was asked about national socialists who watch his show and he literally said that he wished they weren't nation socialists.

>>8638848
>Chomsky
>smart

Yeah, sure, if having bougie leftists lick one's asshole all the time is a sign of intelligence, he's pretty smart.

>>8638996
Oh God, yes. This board is full of pseudointellectual man children and tryhard numpties.

we're all stupid in our own special ways op

>>8640419
well said

>>8638848
Depressing, Infuriating, and sometimes impossible to reconcile.

Of course you tend to pay more attention to problems, and you can whip up solutions so easy, if only people would listen right

From my own experience of being smarter than the people around me (not that hard) it seems that I just over analyze everything around me and "get" things faster. It hasn't helped me, honestly. It's aggravating and pointless. I wish my mind didn't work the way it does, and I've tried to stop it.

>>8641509
you sound like me when I was 17 and hopelessly stupid and conceited

>>8639068
>You tend to love and admire people more, but you also get more angry
This don't sound like intelligence. At all.

>>8641510

For what it's worth I don't think I'm a genius or treat my friends or people around me any differently. I don't have that high of an opinion of myself either, and I certainly didn't mean to come off as vain.

I've asked people I know about this and they just tell me I think too much. Didn't mean to sound like a butthole about it.

>>8641470
>Chomsky
>smart
>Yeah, sure, if having bougie leftists lick one's asshole all the time is a sign of intelligence, he's pretty smart.
I'm pretty sure you don't know anything about Chomsky, his views, and why he holds them.

>>8638957
Don't. Who cares. Just read. (says a subvocalizing pleb)

>>8638983
I have severe depression as well. Don't let that be an obstacle to meditation. Set aside a few minutes a day and try to center yourself. Making it a habit is the hardest part.

>>8641524
I can't subvocalize I think too fast.

>>8638983

Then meditating every day would be even more beneficial for you then the average person.

>>8638848
Things seem to just make sense, and if I don't understand something, I almost understand exactly why I don't understand it and more importantly why I don't need to.

>>8638978
There's not being able to relate to people, and then there's not wanting to. If only the first applies to you, then what you have in cognitive ability you probably lack in emotional awareness—which is a kind of stupidity, FYI.

>>8639150

I completely agree with your take on multiple perspectives. Assurance is a farce. Also, I don't know if you purposefully meant to do it, but your saying that you might just be schizo is a perfect example of considering many unique perspectives simultaneously on one issue. So here's +1 for the irony, intentional or not.

>>8638874
Working theories are contingent on facts you dope.

>>8640350
That's, just like, your definition of intelligence man.

Problem solving, pattern recognition, and spatial reasoning all fall under the classical definition of intelligence as drawn up by Binet in the early 20th—and quite frankly it's pretty one-dimensional. It doesn't really take into account memory, creative expression, musical ability, general awareness, abstract cognition, or superpsychosocial brainy points. Yadda yadda yadda.

>>8641599
I think emotional awareness can go full circle, understanding that a lot of people's emotions are short lived and not based on logical outcomes, irrational more often than not can lead you to retard that aspect of yourself

Socially successful and creatively inclined rapscallion with a 142 IQ here.

I'm incredibly self-critical, constantly castigate myself if I don't live up to my own expectations (which is a regular and highly toxic habit), and most (emphasize 'most') things make sense to me to the point where I'm very rarely confused. But I should also mention that I process pieces of information quite concurrently. Like, whenever I'm with a group of friend's, I'm also intensely conscious of what every single person is doing around me, what I assume they're thinking, what kind of conversations their having with one another, what their body language tells me, how this reflects their character and temperament—all the while thinking of something else, usually super mundane like how the toilet brand Sloan is also an anagram for 'salon' and 'loans,' and who the fuck is Sloan Kettering?

>>8638874
Everyone has ideologies, this is bullshit.

>tfw to intelligent for this thread

>>8641624
Can you please rewrite this as an intelligible sentence. I'm not trying to be mean, I just want to be clear on what you're trying to say—which I think is that one shouldn't place too much importance on one's perceptions of others' emotional states?

>>8641632
>what kind of conversations their having with one another
>their

You sound like an extremely euphoric pseud.

>>8641632
Oh, and I'm never anxious, in case anyone was wondering if I have a personality disorder (which it almost looks like based on what I've written).

>>8641644
And you're pedantic with semantics, old frand.

A recent study shows that typographical errors such as the one you've mentioned tend to be reflective of higher level lateral thinking abilities, based on data from a group of 349 college students from 2 Ivies and 3 second-tier schools.

That fact that you even begin to imply that such a mistake is in anyway indicative on someone's overall intellect is highly suggestive of a narrow mindset towards intelligence as a whole.

Anyway, it's cool, cuz you were half right ;)

>>8638848
It's like being the only kid at camp with a flashlight.

>>8641666
Brilliant. No pun intended.

>>8641671
Damn boy that's like 2 puns in 1 word who is this James Joyce ass nigga

>>8641658
>justifying your own spelling mistake
>mentioning a "recent study"
>using it as evidence that it actually means you're even smarter
>condescending smiley face
Go ahead and add another IQ point to that 142, you've earned it

>>8641697
Didn't justify my grammar mistake (not 'spelling') because such mistakes are never justifiable unless intentional, I was merely pointing out that it isn't an accurate reflection on my intelligence or stupidity.

I completely fabricated that study and thought you would notice.

The made-up study did function as an example of lateral thinking, so you're right here.

And again you're right, the smiley was pretty condescending, so for that I apologize.

>>8641691
Dude, it's me.

>>8638902
I agree completely