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210 IQ Is Not Enough

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Post by nonethewiser »

stego-tech wrote: post #15

A really good litmus test of individual perspective and maturity, here. Already seeing comments nitpick specific arguments or points, which is itself the trap to shine a light on those individuals more obsessed with arbitrary external measures of their personal definition of success, rather than self-reflecting on said definition and asking whether or not this definition fits who they are or want to be as a person, o…

The observation in this article is part of a more general principle: Happiness isn't a single variable equation. It directly parallels the observation that "money doesn't buy happiness." 210 IQ will never be enough. $20M dollars will never be enough.

This article is interesting to me because I see people falsely equivocating money with happiness all the time, and pretty much never see it with IQ. I didn't realize it was a thing.

Re: 210 IQ Is Not Enough

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Post by ux266478 »

pxc wrote: post #11

Kim Ung-yong (the one from the article with 210 IQ sounds like a good guy with a respectable career and a healthy self-conception. He even describes himself as happy! It seems like 210 IQ has proven to be plenty for him, although measurement of his IQ and intense childhood pressure may not have been beneficial to him.

It is entirely possible he would not have reached where he is in his life without all of that negativity. No life is complete without deep and woeful strife.

Re: 210 IQ Is Not Enough

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Post by sureglymop »

graemep wrote: post #28
sureglymop wrote: post #16

How is Langan thought of as a smart guy? I can't read further because this guy to me is either a grifter or suffering from mental illness. The linked interview doesn't surprise me at all, daily wire readers/listeners are just as gullible and exploitable as people who would think that Langan is smart. Every smart person I've met in life so far has known that humility is key if you want other smart people to take you s…

> It's a paradox where if it's done on film it seems more self serving than generous but if it wasn't on film no one would know. What is wrong with no one knowing? Its not really a problem, and its old - its mentioned in the Bible (obviously not videos, but doing good publicly for status).

Nothing is wrong with no one knowing technically. Which is kind of the point. The desire to tell everyone how smart/generous you are is what makes others think you're a grifter and fraud (even if not), which is what an intelligent person would know and thus avoid.

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Post by jimmygrapes »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #67

> According to Yoo, by the time he was 1, her son learned both the Korean alphabet and 1,000 Chinese characters by studying the Thousand Character Classic, a sixth-century Chinese poem.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ung-yong Is that true? How is that even possible? Like, biologically.

Age reckoning in South Korea (and other east Asian countries) is quite different than what you might expect. Age 1 in this context could be up to 3; if year 1 is your birth date and you age up at the new year, you could be "2 years old" while being alive for only 3 days. It could also work the other way around if they follow one of the other methods. Pretty interesting and not yet fully standardized!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning

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Post by gh0stcat »

jebarker wrote: post #59

I wholeheartedly agree with the point of the article, but the phrase “You are enough” really grinds my gears for some reason. Enough for what?

I tend to agree, most platitudes are less impactful simply because your mind inserts what it already knows/autocompletes the phrase meaning because it's something so commonly heard. I read it as something like... you have enough resources to lead a life that has prosperity relative to the limited faculties of a human organism. That seems less catchy, and if you're too literal in your phrasing in writing, then you get the opposite problem where the reader limits their thinking to just what is written. Do you come to a different conclusion?

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Post by guywithahat »

The premise of the article is Langan has a high IQ, but is a bad person because he's conservative? Major political parties you disagree with are not "poisonous rhetoric", and political articles like this really don't belong on HN. People may know things you don't, and they base their world view on experiences you may not have had.

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Post by kentm »

jebarker wrote: post #55
mattgreenrocks wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always love the articles that end up holding mirrors to some of the commenters. :)

What does that say about you? :)

The charitable answer would be that they admire self reflection and try to engage i it themselves.

Re: 210 IQ Is Not Enough

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Post by jmull »

IQ has an enduring mystique, but before getting to excited by it, people should ask themselves a question:

Does "IQ" measure something particularly useful or meaningful?

(I think, at best, it's a very incomplete measure of something quite vague and ill-defined.)

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Post by thechao »

thr0waway001 wrote: post #103

It never was. I can’t think of one genius that became really famous and successful that also didn’t have to work their friggin’ as s off or who had everything handed to them, or who didn’t have to collaborate with or appeal to normies to get ahead in this world. “It’s a long way to the top if you want to Rock ‘n Roll”

There's always someone else just as smart, willing to work harder. On the other hand, there's an inexhaustible amount of work & new ideas to work on. If you don't want to do new things, most "old ideas" have been poorly executed: go redo them well.
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