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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I took an IQ test in a professional psychologist’s office (so, one hopes, fairly reliable) that put my overall IQ at 138. I’m surely at least 20-30 points lower than my father who is a fairly well known physics professor with many famous publications. My brutally honest opinion is that 1) the returns to high IQ are unfortunately much lower for women, and 2) even for men, unless you’re making advances at the knowledge frontier of abstract mathematics, you’re best off with an IQ of approx 120 and high energy + high EQ. IQ higher than that simply doesn’t pay off for the individual in terms of more money or higher social status.

Happy to elaborate on my own life path (which is actually pretty good, all things considered!) but that’s the TLDR.[/quote]

Whoa, can you elaborate?

I consider myself pretty smart and my greatest weakness is my stamina - I was underweight until peri and I needed 10 hours of sleep everyday even in my 20s. I have scored a few great jobs with potential but I fudged all of them because of my lack of stamina I burned out after a year or two.[/quote]

Were you a perfectionist and burned out? Like you couldn’t get stuff done on time or prioritize?

Or were you masking so much at work that you burned out?

Or was the work places truly toxic and taking advantage of you and others with too much work or problems or stress? [/quote]

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