(07-31-2020, 07:51 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Not sure if that's telling... i have a pretty high IQ, and I'm a stay at home dad.

I've known a few people with very high IQs and they run the gamut.  I know one who scored a 160 on an IQ test and he paints houses for a living.  I know another guy, who is undoubtedly a genius- he likes to read books on advanced mathematics- and he is a programmer, but not particularly successful financially or professionally.  I know a few others.  One thing they all seem to have in common is an overwhelming confidence in their own opinion about things.  

If someone is doing advanced mathematics for a living, or is a grandmaster in chess, there is no doubt those people have a very high IQ.  On the other hand, I can think of two people I grew up with that I thought were some of the dumbest people I ever met, and somehow one is now a lawyer and the other is a doctor.   

I've never taken an IQ test.  I have no idea what my IQ is.

In my opinion, there is one talent that is overwhelmingly more important in life than IQ, athletic ability, good looks, or anything else- it is the ability to make the right choices.  Life is an endless series of choices, and some people manage to navigate through, and other people are stymied.

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