Why do high IQ people so often amount to nothing?

Sorry, forgive me for contemplating my navel and lamenting the pitiful circumstances of my life. Indulge me, please. Why do so many people with very high IQs amount to nothing?

@fmf said
Sorry, forgive me for contemplating my navel and lamenting the pitiful circumstances of my life. Indulge me, please. Why do so many people with very high IQs amount to nothing?

Are you assuming you have a high IQ?

@suzianne said
Are you assuming you have a high IQ?

Your assumption and my assumption are neither here nor there. The question is: Why do so many people with very high IQs amount to nothing?

“Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”

Thomas Edison

@ghost-of-a-duke said
“Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”

Thomas Edison

That's a great quote; however, "genius" and "intelligence" are not the same thing.

@fmf said
Indulge me, please. Why do so many people with very high IQs amount to nothing?

Is this actually a fact? It’s an interesting one if it is true. Depends on how many “so many” is I suppose. Also what a “very high IQ” actual is.

@fmf said
Sorry, forgive me for contemplating my navel and lamenting the pitiful circumstances of my life. Indulge me, please. Why do so many people with very high IQs amount to nothing?

Partly down to the 'Dunning Kruger Effect.'
Very intelligent people don't think they are, they tend to think everybody knows what they know. Dumb folk tend to think they are intelligent because they don't know that they don't know.

@the-gravedigger said
Partly down to the 'Dunning Kruger Effect.' Dumb folk tend to think they are intelligent because they don't know that they don't know.

Also in play could be the Dopeler Effect:

“The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.”

@the-gravedigger said
Very intelligent people don't think they are, they tend to think everybody knows what they know.

I though you already knew that I knew this.

@the-gravedigger said
Dumb folk tend to think they are intelligent because they don't know that they don't know.

Now THIS, i didn't know. Nor did I know I didn't know it.

@divegeester said
Also in play could be the Dopeler Effect:

“The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.”

Lol

@the-gravedigger said
Partly down to the 'Dunning Kruger Effect.'

I met Kruger when I played cricket against South Africa U-17 XI during the boycott [one of the reasons I never played for England] but I've never met Dunning. Is there a particular effect when you meet them together?

@divegeester said
Is this actually a fact? It’s an interesting one if it is true. Depends on how many “so many” is I suppose. Also what a “very high IQ” actual is.

You present me with more questions than answers.

@fmf said
Now THIS, i didn't know. Nor did I know I didn't know it.

Did you know?

@the-gravedigger said
Did you know?

Now that I do know, my memory of what I knew previously is unreliable.