Be Honest. Do you consider yourself to be smarter than 'the average' ?

[Esmoreit]

megaman79 said:

Esmoreit said:
I'm smarter then your average bear!

Well, I have some pretty damning evidence. I'll be finishing University in a few months with a masters degree in management consultancy. I've already done two very succesful advisory projects aswell as work in some pretty tough mental jobs.

As for EQ... I can sense quite a lot from people. What they feel, where it hurts, when something is wrong. I'm considered comforting to talk to.

 

Not to discredit your intelligence but im at university and from my perspective (maybe its an australian thing) its not about intelligence at all, its about obedience and slavery to the systematic expectations of their desired formula. Its kind of like life , play by their rules or GTFO.

Im not a suit and tie man. Despite hitting above average for most of my unit results, i will graduate this term, but i still don't think university is ultimately that encouraging for individuality or new ideas and that disgusts me. Maybe with a post grad ill see things differently, probably not though.

You are right about conforming to the system part. I experienced this firsthand as I can write incredibly witty pieces, reviews, articles, cases, whatever... but I'm generally told to tone it down next time as it is not scientificy enough. (I once used the word scientificy in an article for instance)

Still, I think that being able to conform to a new system is showing intelligence. The films where a streetwiper becomes a massive CEO or the dumb blond becomes a lawyer is real cute but, in a real situation with highly educated people you would find out that this just does not fly. You have to be able, and this is a skill dumber people do not have, conform to the situation if you want to be accepted there.