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I feel smart and I don't like it
| Even when it comes to school and stuff this applies. I get good grades without ever putting effort into it, and it just makes all of it feeling meaningless to the point that I dropped out.
People often call me "smart" and compliment me on it, but, it just feels off. I feel like I understand a lot of things no problem and it comes naturally, but, I just don't like it for some reason.
It makes things feel very meaningless and shit, and I don't know why I of all people am like this.
| This is a gift that facilitates your movement through life.
Don't begrudge it.
| >>687264
You're not the first to say something along those lines. I don't feel like it's a "gift" though. Or if it is, I'm not using properly maybe?
| >>687267
It's a passive
As cliche'd as it sounds, other people would kill to have the kind of social cohesion and capacity to quickly understand concepts that you do.
Maybe you just need a bit of ego death to balance it out. Consider LSD.
| >>687269
I don't really have much of an ego. I don't view myself highly or above others in any way. Like, I'm partially content with myself, but that's the extent of it.
I know that some people view it as something good. Something to, like, strive for and stuff. Idk though. I see some benefits, like being able to help people pretty well and easily, but it just feels wrong in a way.
| >>687262 simply, meet with people equal or smarter than you ^^ you are pretty dumb if you don't have this solution in your mind. If you really can't, use your talent for something and visit specific communities, for example astrophysics is usually difficult, or learn programming.. everyone needs a rivals :P
| Meanwhile here I am, dumb as a brick, but people for some reason think I'm smart. It's probably the glasses. Believe you me, this sucks even more.
| >>687315
I don't give a fuck about astrophysics. Programming is cool but I can't be bothered to actually get into it. I also really don't care about the intelligence or whatever of the people around me. I have a lot of really good friends. There's also the fact that talking to people who are as smart as me wouldn't change the fact that this all makes a lot of things feel way too easy and/or meaningless.
>>687319
Ah, yeah. "My situation is worse than yours." Cool.
| I have a little bit of the same problem. One thing that helps me feel less uncomfortable is trying to teach others. Sometimes I teach them how to achieve the specific goal they're asking about, like solving a math problem, other times I try to teach them how I arrived at that conclusion. Both things make me feel like it's not just me being smarter than another person, but instead that I was lucky and figured out problem solving before they did.
| The other thing that helped a lot was finding other kinds of 'smartness' that I wasn't very good at. For me right now, those are things like being able to write music and what people call 'game sense' in VALORANT. Both of those take different types of intelligence that I don't naturally have, and the second one has taken me a lot of work to begin to have. Learning those new kinds of intelligence feels way more meaningful to me than school ever did.
| >>687349 >>687351
I do use it to help people a lot. Usually not with, like, math and shit, but more along the lines of teaching them logical ways to deal with emotional shit. How to better handle difficult situations. How to notice when someone is being matipulative to them. How to use logical thinking to ease the pain or get out of a depressive episode etc. It definitely works, and it's very rewarding. So, yeah. I do stuff like that.
| >>687351
It's funny you mention music. I actually write a fair bit of music in my spare time, but for me that kind of came natural as well and it's sort of like a coping mechanism for me. It's a form of venting that is a little more vague and creative and can both sound good and be entertaining and also spread a message and have different meaning for different people. I love it, but it's not super challenging.
I really love shit like that as well, mentality around games and stuff.
| Game design, the psychology behind what drives players, the way you can make people play in different ways, how people play and use that different type of intelligence in video games. It's hard for me to be passionate about things in general, but the things you mentioned are things I have a passion for as well and does sort of help, but, well, I'm still where I am, you know?
I feel a lot better about it today after talking with a close friend about it though, so, I'll manage.
| >>687336 than you are dumb ^^ for example i would must kill myself if i wasn't in contact with people with who can i compete with.. Everyone need rival i think xd
| >>687336
Hey, just putting things into perspective here. Also >>668aaa is right, this is textbook impostor syndrome.
| >>687431
I really don't think you know what impostor syndrome is. Either that or I've explained myself very poorly.
>>687425
No. I'm just different to you. I'm not a very competitive person.
| Don't being playful sounds really sad :(
| >>687574
I don't know how you came to that conclusion, but, well, I usually am. I'm not competitive at all though, sadly.
| >>687803
I have interests in video games, game design, writing, music and a few other things like that.
When it comes to selfishness things, I really like making others happy. That might not sound very selfish, but it's like the stuff I mentioned above. It makes me happy to give advice and help out people I care about, because, well, it's nice to see the people I care about improve and me in a good headspace.
| Me advice for smart pepol,
Juz cause u can and know dosen men u should say or do something
And most of the time its the delivery that matters not the actual solution
If u cherrypick and work on softer delivery ppl wont get intimidated too much and u wont take away too much of their freedom to try their stupidity uwu
| Mabe that will help you feel better, knowing that u helped em but its not completely clear its ur smartass thats workin em. Sorry to assume but it seems like u don like to be in the spotlight but still also wanna help pepol.
| >>5d5ea7
I gotta be honest, I don't know what the fuck you're on about. The only thing I get from what you said is "I only read the title and like to assume things".
| >>687872
I gotta be honest, I don't know what the fuck you're on about. The only thing I get from what you said is "I only quote IDs and like to be retarded".
| >>687880
okay now it's actually concerning. do you believe the jews control the world too? you just came up with some bullshit and ingrained it into your dumb brain that it was real. this is paranoid schizophrenia i believe, but i hope you're just baiting for replies like the retard 4channer that you are.
| actually kind of pathetic. you can call anyone that disagrees with you a samefagger and just enter retard mode because you don't like it when people disagree with you. you sound like the people that call everything racist and tries to systematically ruin things they don't like. cram your dumb bait up somewhere painful.
| anyways, ekawa
| >>687826 hmm.. i guess that you are maybe better person than me.. i like to help people, but sometimes i feel as that i would glad to kill all world..
What about improve your skills? Write some book, develop game, learn better music and publish some, if you are iritated that you are too smart, i guess that you should develop them. And it's also only way how to give up of this feelings, because always you will find someone who is better than you...
| I feel dum and i love it, ignorance and not taking things personally is true bliss uwu
| >>687905
That's an issue of motivation though, sadly. I really want to do those things but every time I work on it some personal shit usually gets me depressed and I loose motivation for it and can't get back into it. I'm working on fixing that but it's a lot easier said than done.
| >>687910 lost of motivation is really bad.. i experience something similar.. But surprising me that your problem number 1 is "feel smart". Honestly this is probably only one thing what i little like on myself and i try to improve it, it's probably part of my perfectionism, and probably reason why am i competive and likes "rivals concept".. my biggest problem is probably emotions.. and if i was in diplomacy, i would probably declare world war xd
| >>687911
I never said that this is my number 1 problem. It's very far from it. It's just one of many and one that was bothering me a lot when I made this thread.
| >>687914
If you don't like feeling smart, say what would you trade it for? Something else that will make you feel good?
| >>687916
Well, being smart doesn't really make me feel good, but at the same time I don't think I'd want to trade it for something. It's part of who I am and it makes it easier for me to help the people I care about. As long as I can help others through difficult shit it's worth it in my opinion. It just has some downsides to it, just like anything else.
| If you would't trade it, then it means you like it enough. Heh
| >>687917 You can use your intelligence for help others so.. it's not mean that you can't. You just need meet with right people..
| wow
| You aren't the first person to feel this way. Many people do. Thing is though you have to have perspective.
There are many many people more intelligent than yourself. Instead of crying about being too smart open your eyes to reality. You're really not that clever in the grand scheme of things.
Maths too easy for you? Go up a level and see if you can solve harder problems. Don't stay in your comfort zone thinking your some sort of genius because you're not. No-one is.
| >>688016
I knew this would happen when I made the thread. Y'all are assuming I think I'm a fucking mastermind when that's not the case at all. There are tons of people smarter than. I'm not retarded and I'm not in a bubble.
If you actually read what I said then you'd most likely understand that I don't think that at all, but I guess reading more than just a title is difficult for people these days.
| feels like there's a misunderstanding somewhere...
| >>688037
Yeah. I'm not great at explaining and a lot of the people replying prefer assuming over reading. So, well, we seem to be on very different pages.
| Science says smart g/u/rls are much more prone to stress and less stable. Simply cause they input, process and connect alot more information from the world.
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| When people ask me for advice or help in a situation they're in, I always understand the full or at least the most important parts of a situation from just the little bit of information I get, and when they find out more or progress more in said situation I always turn out to be right.
When it comes to just basic logical stuff I also always understand it no problem and it's very easy to help people with it and, idk. It just feels kinda weird. I don't like that feeling.