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[quote=Anonymous]According to multiple tests, I have a super-high IQ, and my parents told me. My father gave me the impression that it was a magical number that guaranteed me relatively effortless success.

Don't do these things with your child. They didn't give me context about how meaningless the score is, or tell me I'd have to work hard at whatever my passions were.

They and the various schools I went to had no idea what to do with me. I easily drifted through my warehouse-schools with no challenges other than trying to stave off boredom and find ways to read and pursue my interests.

Most of my interests were discouraged by my mother, who sincerely thought the only proper thing for me to want was to become a secretary and marry a man with a nice car.

Times are different now, and this area is full of bright people who know they have to work hard and work smart to make full use of whatever advantages they have. That's what I teach my kids, who are genetically pretty lucky, too.[/quote]

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