7 Habits Of Highly Intelligent People
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Date: 2023-08-20
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Afqwa
None of these are signs of intelligence, or well, anything really. They're unrelated tips for living.
Success doesn't correlate with intelligence.
1) Curiosity is a good habit, but it's also difficult to be curious about something you don't care about. Humans can't go emotionally 100% on everything either. This is often why passion is generally the better indicator of success than intelligence. A prodigy generally has some combination of talent, creativity and motivation. Talent doesn't let you skip the work. There are plenty of highly intelligent people who get lazy and coast and intelligent people who go all-out on something and burn themselves out (and therefore can't sustain their efforts at improvement.
2) Independent thinking is important but is a bit overrated. As a strong introvert, I can tell you there are absolutely limits to how far you can learn on your own. It's like banging your head against a wall with the expectation that the wall fall over. I call tell you that there instances where teachers wanted me to figure things out when it just wouldn't been more productive to just _tell me the answer. _ Because frankly, the question is sometimes just meanspirited and unfair given your available resources -- but academia often inflicts this misery on you with the logic that pain is good for your character. (It's not) People seem to have the weird idea that dropping you into the wilderness with no tools _at all_ is going to toughen you up instead of just kill you. And this tip reminds me of that.
There's a reason why college costs so much money. You're paying for the office hours and tutoring resources and I absolutely can say that scheduling your time effectively so that you can use those resources when you're in a rut will help. A lot. Which is often why it's better get started on a project early to find where your problems are so you can get help without wasting time near a dead line. Same goes with fighting games in your example -- a lot of technical knowledge in gaming is locked inside of an insular subculture and aren't immediately evident to outsiders, nor are they discoverable entirely on your own. Because you're ignorant, you also don't know what habits or intuitions are mistakes or not.
3) See above. These two contradict each other. Also, no, it's more like a learning style than an implicit part of intelligence. Good life advice as far as it goes.
4) Again, a good idea, but not a sign of intelligence. You also don't really mention anything about how exercise raises your threshold to tolerate stress -- and therefore also concentrate better.
5) Again, good life advice, but you've clearly never met intelligent people with ADHD. Or for that matter, many nerds at all.
6) No, this is just being sociable and nice. Notice that I said _nice, _ not _good. _ There is an important distinction there. There are such things as disagreeable personality traits. Disagreeability sounds like a bad trait, but civility for the sake of civility often leads to such things like accepting a negative peace where some problem or conflict goes unresolved because being civil becomes more important than the good. And you absolutely do need to reach a point where you're not simply giving undeserved praise or overestimating other people's knowledge.
Ironically, there are situations where being too nice leads to _failures of empathy. _ Highly knowledgeable experts tend to overestimate the knowledge of the average person. And people often tend to project good in others that really isn't there, because they can't imagine another person acting any differently from themselves. Again, you don't have to be an asshole about it, but having knowledge means accepting uncomfortable truths, not just being the mood setter.
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None of these are signs of intelligence, or well, anything really. They're unrelated tips for living.
Success doesn't correlate with intelligence.
1) Curiosity is a good habit, but it's also difficult to be curious about something you don't care about. Humans can't go emotionally 100% on everything either. This is often why passion is generally the better indicator of success than intelligence. A prodigy generally has some combination of talent, creativity and motivation. Talent doesn't let you skip the work. There are plenty of highly intelligent people who get lazy and coast and intelligent people who go all-out on something and burn themselves out (and therefore can't sustain their efforts at improvement.
2) Independent thinking is important but is a bit overrated. As a strong introvert, I can tell you there are absolutely limits to how far you can learn on your own. It's like banging your head against a wall with the expectation that the wall fall over. I call tell you that there instances where teachers wanted me to figure things out when it just wouldn't been more productive to just _tell me the answer. _ Because frankly, the question is sometimes just meanspirited and unfair given your available resources -- but academia often inflicts this misery on you with the logic that pain is good for your character. (It's not) People seem to have the weird idea that dropping you into the wilderness with no tools _at all_ is going to toughen you up instead of just kill you. And this tip reminds me of that.
There's a reason why college costs so much money. You're paying for the office hours and tutoring resources and I absolutely can say that scheduling your time effectively so that you can use those resources when you're in a rut will help. A lot. Which is often why it's better get started on a project early to find where your problems are so you can get help without wasting time near a dead line. Same goes with fighting games in your example -- a lot of technical knowledge in gaming is locked inside of an insular subculture and aren't immediately evident to outsiders, nor are they discoverable entirely on your own. Because you're ignorant, you also don't know what habits or intuitions are mistakes or not.
3) See above. These two contradict each other. Also, no, it's more like a learning style than an implicit part of intelligence. Good life advice as far as it goes.
4) Again, a good idea, but not a sign of intelligence. You also don't really mention anything about how exercise raises your threshold to tolerate stress -- and therefore also concentrate better.
5) Again, good life advice, but you've clearly never met intelligent people with ADHD. Or for that matter, many nerds at all.
6) No, this is just being sociable and nice. Notice that I said _nice, _ not _good. _ There is an important distinction there. There are such things as disagreeable personality traits. Disagreeability sounds like a bad trait, but civility for the sake of civility often leads to such things like accepting a negative peace where some problem or conflict goes unresolved because being civil becomes more important than the good. And you absolutely do need to reach a point where you're not simply giving undeserved praise or overestimating other people's knowledge.
Ironically, there are situations where being too nice leads to _failures of empathy. _ Highly knowledgeable experts tend to overestimate the knowledge of the average person. And people often tend to project good in others that really isn't there, because they can't imagine another person acting any differently from themselves. Again, you don't have to be an asshole about it, but having knowledge means accepting uncomfortable truths, not just being the mood setter.
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Just
There are different kind of intelligent people. In my opinion, intelligent people don't consider themselves as intelligent, because it leads to pride which isn't very intelligent because it kills your libido. Second, intelligent people aren't followers, they prefer to think for themselves and reject authority. If you always were good at school, chances are high that you are a follower and just spend alot of time just reading and learning from others, which obviously gave you more access to information than others have. Just because you have information that others don't have, doesn't mean you are intelligent. Intelligent people are humble to others but also stand their ground when disrespected. They are aware that everyone is a threat if they get the same access to information and put the same effort into things and therefore don't have this sense of pride or jealously because they know we are all the same. Just don't think because you are shy, spend alot of time reading, learning and wear glasses and did well in school that it makes you intelligent.
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There are different kind of intelligent people. In my opinion, intelligent people don't consider themselves as intelligent, because it leads to pride which isn't very intelligent because it kills your libido. Second, intelligent people aren't followers, they prefer to think for themselves and reject authority. If you always were good at school, chances are high that you are a follower and just spend alot of time just reading and learning from others, which obviously gave you more access to information than others have. Just because you have information that others don't have, doesn't mean you are intelligent. Intelligent people are humble to others but also stand their ground when disrespected. They are aware that everyone is a threat if they get the same access to information and put the same effort into things and therefore don't have this sense of pride or jealously because they know we are all the same. Just don't think because you are shy, spend alot of time reading, learning and wear glasses and did well in school that it makes you intelligent.
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Leto85
Wow, how I love this video. Short, deep and informative.
I don't see myself as highly intelligent by far, but I do recognise myself in a lot of these steps, especially the lost one. I love making people feel smart for multiple reasons:
1. They already are smart, rather they see it themselves or not - I like to believe that everybody has a talent awoken or yet to be awoken and simply by believing so that talent can be awakened.
2. I love to surround myself with smart people - so if I would have the audacity to think someone would be dumb than that would make me the dumbest person in the room myself because simply by doing so I unconsciously decide to not look at all the beauty that person would have to offer if I would have decided to place them in a more positive light.
So, I'm doing this for others, but also for myself.
Positive selfishness from me perhaps, but from what I can tell it sure seems to uplift the people around me, and that's what I'm striving for. :)
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Wow, how I love this video. Short, deep and informative.
I don't see myself as highly intelligent by far, but I do recognise myself in a lot of these steps, especially the lost one. I love making people feel smart for multiple reasons:
1. They already are smart, rather they see it themselves or not - I like to believe that everybody has a talent awoken or yet to be awoken and simply by believing so that talent can be awakened.
2. I love to surround myself with smart people - so if I would have the audacity to think someone would be dumb than that would make me the dumbest person in the room myself because simply by doing so I unconsciously decide to not look at all the beauty that person would have to offer if I would have decided to place them in a more positive light.
So, I'm doing this for others, but also for myself.
Positive selfishness from me perhaps, but from what I can tell it sure seems to uplift the people around me, and that's what I'm striving for. :)
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Poke
My brother's and friends are very rude
Like whenever I talk with them
And add something new to the conversation or
Mine just now imagined think about a movie or about themselves
And I sometimes ask them/imagine that what could u do if u could be in place of them or choose
They always point me out by saying
Why to imagine if that's not going to happen irl
And spoil my context
And they always try to show me down
By saying me that ur fool or just runaway from this world
And no one gives a s about u
.
But the thing narrator told in this intelligence video
I have all the hobbies of this symptoms
But my friends and brothers always make me down
: )
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My brother's and friends are very rude
Like whenever I talk with them
And add something new to the conversation or
Mine just now imagined think about a movie or about themselves
And I sometimes ask them/imagine that what could u do if u could be in place of them or choose
They always point me out by saying
Why to imagine if that's not going to happen irl
And spoil my context
And they always try to show me down
By saying me that ur fool or just runaway from this world
And no one gives a s about u
.
But the thing narrator told in this intelligence video
I have all the hobbies of this symptoms
But my friends and brothers always make me down
: )
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Yeetus
I'm considered highly intelligent and I will say I follow most of these except prioritization and exercising. I primarily think that's because my mental state is somewhat lacking to put it lightly but I also think I just struggle with motivation because I've never found things that require brain power difficult, I've just not wanted to do things because they're easy and pointless.
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I'm considered highly intelligent and I will say I follow most of these except prioritization and exercising. I primarily think that's because my mental state is somewhat lacking to put it lightly but I also think I just struggle with motivation because I've never found things that require brain power difficult, I've just not wanted to do things because they're easy and pointless.
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Khairin
I use to think me wondering & looking around and consistently asking questions of simple things I see around me was weird. Like. i get called out for doing that. My cousin, parents, friends etc. Now that I've watched this video, I think I can appreciate myself for actually asking & looking around. I feel somewhat in place
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I use to think me wondering & looking around and consistently asking questions of simple things I see around me was weird. Like. i get called out for doing that. My cousin, parents, friends etc. Now that I've watched this video, I think I can appreciate myself for actually asking & looking around. I feel somewhat in place
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Dfd_Free_Speech
I have an IQ of 145-150 and don't do points 4, 5 and 7.
Particularly point 7 is a total waste of time. Making dumb people feel smart is not the way how an intelligent person contributes positively to society.
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I have an IQ of 145-150 and don't do points 4, 5 and 7.
Particularly point 7 is a total waste of time. Making dumb people feel smart is not the way how an intelligent person contributes positively to society.
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Heather
I ask a lot of questions. I try to figure out things alone because I am to embarrassed to say that I don't know something. Yes if I get a bad result after trying to do something I never make the same mistake again.
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I ask a lot of questions. I try to figure out things alone because I am to embarrassed to say that I don't know something. Yes if I get a bad result after trying to do something I never make the same mistake again.
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MapleMindy9
Often enough I would learn something by just observing someone and they'd say I was smart but I'd always shrug it off and deny it. This video is saying the same things I do and I'm still denying it.
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Often enough I would learn something by just observing someone and they'd say I was smart but I'd always shrug it off and deny it. This video is saying the same things I do and I'm still denying it.
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Lawrence
I only exercise once a week, but otherwise I checked the others. As for number 7, I always recognize the intelligence of others but rarely verbalize what I see. Perhaps I should get more sleep though.
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I only exercise once a week, but otherwise I checked the others. As for number 7, I always recognize the intelligence of others but rarely verbalize what I see. Perhaps I should get more sleep though.
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FLOROID
This sounds more like a list of things that successful people do. A lot of these are just good habits, that sometimes even a lot of intelligent people don't develop until they get their life in order.
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This sounds more like a list of things that successful people do. A lot of these are just good habits, that sometimes even a lot of intelligent people don't develop until they get their life in order.
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Franns
Shout out to Psych2Go for using DIO as an example of being highly intelligent and shrouded in mysterythat man enlightened idc if he was evil he be dropping gems and wisdom to his minions and strangers
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Shout out to Psych2Go for using DIO as an example of being highly intelligent and shrouded in mysterythat man enlightened idc if he was evil he be dropping gems and wisdom to his minions and strangers
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StavKir
I think that being able to recognise the intelligence in others and their abilities instead of thinking that you re the only high intelligent person in the room, is also a sign of high intelligence.
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I think that being able to recognise the intelligence in others and their abilities instead of thinking that you re the only high intelligent person in the room, is also a sign of high intelligence.
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JfromUK
Some of this is like, yes, I know I should approach life more like that.
Asking lots of questions, however? Me all over. I need a lot of detail, but even I want to know more than I need to.
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Some of this is like, yes, I know I should approach life more like that.
Asking lots of questions, however? Me all over. I need a lot of detail, but even I want to know more than I need to.
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fghsgh
I would disagree. These are habits _successful_ people have. Many gifted individuals struggle to get their life in order and adapt to a world that was not made for them.
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I would disagree. These are habits _successful_ people have. Many gifted individuals struggle to get their life in order and adapt to a world that was not made for them.
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MVU
Any time I play a video game I press every single button to what they do. Then I combine buttons and see how they react and that's how I usually play a game
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Any time I play a video game I press every single button to what they do. Then I combine buttons and see how they react and that's how I usually play a game
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Hiruwar
0: 12
damn, making jojo references?
I don't have anything against it
Put more before I break into your house and say put more jojo references
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0: 12
damn, making jojo references?
I don't have anything against it
Put more before I break into your house and say put more jojo references
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Hailstone
Michio Kaku, the well known theoretical physicist, said that intelligent people are better predictors of the future than those who are not.
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Michio Kaku, the well known theoretical physicist, said that intelligent people are better predictors of the future than those who are not.
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Jon
I once tried reading a book called 7 habits of highly intelligent people by Steven Covey. it was hard and dry as fk, intelligence is not for me.
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I once tried reading a book called 7 habits of highly intelligent people by Steven Covey. it was hard and dry as fk, intelligence is not for me.
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lollypop
Please remember: even if you don't do anything on this list, You're still smart! Everyone is smart, their mind just might not be ready yet!
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Please remember: even if you don't do anything on this list, You're still smart! Everyone is smart, their mind just might not be ready yet!
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Doodle
As that one annoying student who asked too many questions and always answered the teacher for you, I can promise you I don't exercise
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As that one annoying student who asked too many questions and always answered the teacher for you, I can promise you I don't exercise
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Gladiator0161
Welp, I guess I'm not highly intelligent, just intelligent. I have all of these habits but, number 5, I hate excercising, lol
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Welp, I guess I'm not highly intelligent, just intelligent. I have all of these habits but, number 5, I hate excercising, lol
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Motivational
Goodness my parents did always say that I am intelligent and here all of these signs are so relative.
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Goodness my parents did always say that I am intelligent and here all of these signs are so relative.
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phos
1: 34 lmao i always thought it was the opposite. All the teachers get annoyed by me asking questions lol
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1: 34 lmao i always thought it was the opposite. All the teachers get annoyed by me asking questions lol
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dacaik
hmm this kinda look like my life
(i wacth every new animal i see for no reason yes idk why)
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hmm this kinda look like my life
(i wacth every new animal i see for no reason yes idk why)
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