forevermirin
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i actually think one of the most key separators for high iq folks is the questions in life that really bug them. for example I know really smart people who cope with stem - they'll spend their 20s in education - undergrad then grad school then research phd etc. and to me its just blatant cope. i know this because i almost went down that path with both math and then chess - you feel like its a complex and deep enough subject to keep your mind occupied for the rest of your life.i know 4-5 guys with 99.95th percentile IQs (backed up by accomplishments and performance, so not based on some comical online test), and they are textbook normalfags. Absolutely nothing off about them.
the main thing these are copes for is the impermanence of life - for me personally no material world endeavor has been appealing enough because i see them all as a means to procrastinate not knowing why we're here, what reality is, what happens after death - just very basic questions which most people can somehow brush aside as a given and focus on "living their life".