im sad im not 130iq+

[gandylite.]

different metrics put me at “above average” but it isn’t really enough for it to change my life eg work at a top firm as a quant or some shit so im stuck here and gonna have to slave away in investment banking

 

[Baeseth]

I’m happy i am

 

[gandylite.]

I’m happy i am

make the most of it

 

[Celt]

different metrics put me at “above average” but it isn’t really enough for it to change my life eg work at a top firm as a quant or some shit so im stuck here and gonna have to slave away in investment banking

I’m 130+ (tested officially back in school at 138 iirc in the 140s quantitatively and verbally and high 120s spatially) and it really doesn’t matter for quant unless you’re super motivated and obsessed with maths. I knew maybe one guy who was quant material, giga-autistic but spent hours every day learning maths for fun. And overall in life the sweet spot is at about 120.

I considered quant and finance in general when I was applying to uni but i just never really had it in me in a sense, to spend years grinding jobs I hate just to make money. Would probably blow my brains out. Plus I wasn’t that level of cracked maths genius, in the UK you need to be Oxbridge/imperial STEM + have olympiads under your belt.

Investment banking would kill me you have to be a genuine soulless npc to survive a life where you are spending ALL of your waking hours working on the most meaningless and banal analyst busywork and enduring sleep deprivation to earn what is pretty much minimum wage when calculated hourly, just to get the chance to break into PE after a few years.

Currently doing electrical engineering because I’m pretty interested in hardware and low-level stuff, but it pays nowhere near as well. If I did a phd I could theoretically break into quant (big overlap between signal theory, hdl etc and quant dev/research) but to be honest I have genuinely zero interest in finance and I’m past trying to “get rich”. Might go into patent law because in the UK at least you can get into it straight from an EE masters without a law degree and earn 6 figs + after getting paid to complete your exams for a few years

I’m waffling now but yeah, don’t lament your iq too much it takes a special kind of genius to make it in quant and they’re usually stunted in other areas. If you’re considering IB weigh up your priorities carefully

 

[threadeffort]

different metrics put me at “above average” but it isn’t really enough for it to change my life eg work at a top firm as a quant or some shit so im stuck here and gonna have to slave away in investment banking

what are you good at in terms of iq? (eg. spatial, pattern recognition, verbal)

 

[threadeffort]

I’m 130+ (tested officially back in school at 138 iirc in the 140s quantitatively and verbally and high 120s spatially) and it really doesn’t matter for quant unless you’re super motivated and obsessed with maths. I knew maybe one guy who was quant material, giga-autistic but spent hours every day learning maths for fun. And overall in life the sweet spot is at about 120.

I considered quant and finance in general when I was applying to uni but i just never really had it in me in a sense, to spend years grinding jobs I hate just to make money. Would probably blow my brains out. Plus I wasn’t that level of cracked maths genius, in the UK you need to be Oxbridge/imperial STEM + have olympiads under your belt.

Investment banking would kill me you have to be a genuine soulless npc to survive a life where you are spending ALL of your waking hours working on the most meaningless and banal analyst busywork and enduring sleep deprivation to earn what is pretty much minimum wage when calculated hourly, just to get the chance to break into PE after a few years.

Currently doing electrical engineering because I’m pretty interested in hardware and low-level stuff, but it pays nowhere near as well. If I did a phd I could theoretically break into quant (big overlap between signal theory, hdl etc and quant dev/research) but to be honest I have genuinely zero interest in finance and I’m past trying to “get rich”. Might go into patent law because in the UK at least you can get into it straight from an EE masters without a law degree and earn 6 figs + after getting paid to complete your exams for a few years

I’m waffling now but yeah, don’t lament your iq too much it takes a special kind of genius to make it in quant and they’re usually stunted in other areas. If you’re considering IB weigh up your priorities carefully

what is it like at your iq?

 

[gandylite.]

I’m 130+ (tested officially back in school at 138 iirc in the 140s quantitatively and verbally and high 120s spatially) and it really doesn’t matter for quant unless you’re super motivated and obsessed with maths. I knew maybe one guy who was quant material, giga-autistic but spent hours every day learning maths for fun. And overall in life the sweet spot is at about 120.

I considered quant and finance in general when I was applying to uni but i just never really had it in me in a sense, to spend years grinding jobs I hate just to make money. Would probably blow my brains out. Plus I wasn’t that level of cracked maths genius, in the UK you need to be Oxbridge/imperial STEM + have olympiads under your belt.

Investment banking would kill me you have to be a genuine soulless npc to survive a life where you are spending ALL of your waking hours working on the most meaningless and banal analyst busywork and enduring sleep deprivation to earn what is pretty much minimum wage when calculated hourly, just to get the chance to break into PE after a few years.

Currently doing electrical engineering because I’m pretty interested in hardware and low-level stuff, but it pays nowhere near as well. If I did a phd I could theoretically break into quant (big overlap between signal theory, hdl etc and quant dev/research) but to be honest I have genuinely zero interest in finance and I’m past trying to “get rich”. Might go into patent law because in the UK at least you can get into it straight from an EE masters without a law degree and earn 6 figs + after getting paid to complete your exams for a few years

I’m waffling now but yeah, don’t lament your iq too much it takes a special kind of genius to make it in quant and they’re usually stunted in other areas. If you’re considering IB weigh up your priorities carefully

most effort anyway has ever done on one of my threads, im from the uk aswell and yeah im trying to get into a top 5 uni, further maths currently is cooking me, i do really wanna do it and i have work experience soon as a quant because my dad has power for stuff like that at the firm he works for, hopefully i can get some good advice from some of them

 

[gandylite.]

what are you good at in terms of iq? (eg. spatial, pattern recognition, verbal)

pattern recognition is my strongest point, autism may help with that

 

[gandylite.]

what is it like at your iq?

110-115

 

[Celt]

what is it like at your iq?

In what sense? In school I never really had to study. Got almost straight 9s at GCSE and A*s/As at a-level. I had undiagnosed adhd that I never really figured out until uni because I was smart enough for it never to be a problem in school. I never really encountered any topics that I didn’t just kind of “get” after having them explained properly.

Whereas I’ve noticed that with some of my lower iq friends there are some things they simply cannot comprehend or retain even if you break it down. My closest friend is a literal genius (probably high 140s autist, mogs me) and he’s the only person I’ve ever really felt I could talk about certain things with because he just gets it in a way that normies don’t.

I can’t really talk about the social aspects with any authority because I’m nd and that is always going to be the main hurdle. I guess it can be a bit isolating, especially when I was younger and was interested in stuff regular people didn’t care about and thought was weird. And being a stereotypical nerd in a place where interest in academics was frowned upon (shitty state school in London)

But to be honest its probably not an entirely foreign lived experience to you if you’re in the 120s or something, I’m not exactly a savant. I just learn things easier than most, think quicker and with more parallelism, talk with a greater vocabulary (I get told I sound posh but maybe its the sperginess) etc.

 

[gandylite.]

what is it like at your iq?

sorry i misread i didn’t see you were talking to the other guy

 

[threadeffort]

In what sense? In school I never really had to study. Got almost straight 9s at GCSE and A*s/As at a-level. I had undiagnosed adhd that I never really figured out until uni because I was smart enough for it never to be a problem in school. I never really encountered any topics that I didn’t just kind of “get” after having them explained properly.

Whereas I’ve noticed that with some of my lower iq friends there are some things they simply cannot comprehend or retain even if you break it down. My closest friend is a literal genius (probably high 140s autist, mogs me) and he’s the only person I’ve ever really felt I could talk about certain things with because he just gets it in a way that normies don’t.

I can’t really talk about the social aspects with any authority because I’m nd and that is always going to be the main hurdle. I guess it can be a bit isolating, especially when I was younger and was interested in stuff regular people didn’t care about and thought was weird. And being a stereotypical nerd in a place where interest in academics was frowned upon (shitty state school in London)

But to be honest its probably not an entirely foreign lived experience to you if you’re in the 120s or something, I’m not exactly a savant. I just learn things easier than most, think quicker and with more parallelism, talk with a greater vocabulary (I get told I sound posh but maybe its the sperginess) etc.

damn, really mirin this response, never seen someone so high effort lol

 

[gandylite.]

damn, really mirin this response, never seen someone so high effort lol

it’s incredible

 

[MoneyMaka]

i have used my high iq not to signal intelligence, but to use it to farm social benefits beyond my looks
like iq being used for mathematics is a low iq idea
iq being used to gather power and social influence is true intellect

 

[gandylite.]

i have used my high iq not to signal intelligence, but to use it to farm social benefits beyond my looks
like iq being used for mathematics is a low iq idea
iq being used to gather power and social influence is true intellect

until a high level of mathematics can set you up to a high level of social influence and status