I remember in Grade 9, I had a friend who was just smarter than me, full stop. I'd always been a "gifted kid" and picked up concepts faster than my peers, but this girl was able to logic things out just a hair faster than me. I always thought that intelligence was just about paying attention and "using your brain", but it was the first time I viscerally felt that someone's brain was just plain better than mine, as if she was running on better software. <br><br>I don't know if IQ or grades really capture this, though. But it's very apparent if you pay attention to people when they're challenged intellectually.,(reply>), @LetsGetTouchy<br>So just because someone got a high IQ score you're going to romanticize your relationship with them?<br><br>How do you even figure what their score is during conversation without prior knowledge.<br><br>I said a bunch of things a long time ago but I'm pretty sure I was explicit about the angle being discussed.<br><br>Being intensely smart is NOT apparent and is completely subjective to the person observing. I also like to call out the fact that most people are complete pathological liars and claims made about the self cannot be trusted, only observed.,(reply>), @David WardIQ has generally always correlated with opportunity in life. Even in feudal Europe I doubt you’d find someone with genius level IQ working in a field. Even 2000 years ago there were more jobs than just farmer,(reply>), @Peter Lazar100% cope. People who are smarter in some aspects of intelligence tend to be smarter in all aspects of intelligence, as is discussed in the first 5 minutes of the podcast. Maybe you’ve spent your entire life around 100iq midwits, but if you’ve ever met someone who was intensely smart it is very apparent within moments of simply speaking to them.,(reply>), On better hardware, I would say.,(reply>), Growing up, everyone in my family of 5 was smarter than me so I learned that lesson very very early in life 😆 And thus I am the only one among my circle my relatives with no higher education. Which I guess also shows even with inteligent genes in the family, someone eventually draws the short stick.