Do you feel that intellectually you are either dumb, average or genius?

Question

I feel i myself am average...................... only just though leaning toward dumb. Why is it i seem to put 110 per cent into things and not get much out of them? Am i just not meant to do anything brilliant? It is very frustrating and depressing at times. I am very critical of myself even at the best of times.

Answer 1

I feel that i am, maybe, a little above average on some topics. I am certainly not a genius in any way shape nor form. But I think that your problem is that you are much too critical of yourself. You more than likely do great things every single day, but they may not be great by the world's standards. I believe that the only opinion that truely matters is your own. As long as you think you are making a difference, whether it be to the world, or on a smaller scale, say making someone's day brighter, that is all that really matters in our lives. Take a very observant look around the next time you are feeling self-critical. I bet you are bound to find a mass amount of people who aren't worth the space they take up on this planet. Keep telling yourself that you are worth something and that you do great things everyday. I am willing to bet that someone recognizes you as a great person, whether you do or not.

Answer 2

I'm above average (far from genius) academically; way below average emotionally; below average physically; average creatively; average aesthetically... etc, etc. Lots of parts make the whole. Given I have no physical/physiological problems I could improve or depreciate any of those parts.

You are not dumb. You are not average. You are you. You can do average or dumb things (as have I) and you can do smart and brilliant things. Believe it.

Don't give up on learning. If you hit a road block in becoming who you want to be intellectually, research ways to get around that block. There are lots of learning schemes that work better with some people than others. There are methods of helping you become more creative, more knowledgeable and more systematic or original in problem solving.

If you are that bothered by your lack of progression, congrats, because there are lots of folks who never give their intellectual growth a second thought. The fact that you wrote the question you have written gives me the belief that you will indeed find your own brilliance.

But please, try not to be unfairly critical of yourself; constructive self-criticism is good, but look at yourself as your best friend. Knowing their situation, how would you counsel him/her? And don't focus just on the intellectual. We are all whole human beings.

Peace

Answer 3

Well, if you're like me, you go through the Yahoo answers, looking for something you can relate to and give a good answer to. Then you see all the answers to it and they make you feel pretty dumb. So you go to another one, and judging from all the answers to that one, you feel like an out-of-place genius, compared to all the nitwit answers! You find one that hasn't been answered yet, and you know you can give a good one. Later, you check back, and find a dozen more, all better than yours! It happens to all of us, and they go from one extreme to the other, making us wonder just where we stand. But it's like that in life too. Life is more or less like a pyramid. All the dumb ones form the base, and the average ones make up the rest of it. It gets smaller and smaller toward the top, till it comes to a point so sharp that nobody's up there! The higher we climb, the closer to that point we get, and the better we realize that we'll never be "on top." But then we look down and see the masses below us, and we know that we're not so bad after all.

We can't all shine like the sun or twinkle like the stars, but we can still glow like the moon!

Answer 4

To answer your question, I personally feel I am a genius but only in some things. If you put me in a laboratory I will out shine everyone, put me in an finacial office building however and I will be the dunce of the office.

Since you are asking the question of yourself I would say that you have a greater potential then your current situation is allowing you. We must all remeber that we feel as if we are failing when we are not suited to our situations. Try some new things, you may just find that you are a genius in some things as well. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

I agree strongly with Tyler.

Sometimes you're simply not meant to be the smartest, the coolest, or the most artistic, but just know that there are definitely good qualities in us all, even if they are not so apparent at times. I, like you, feel like I put so much effort into something and often come out with less accomplishment that I thought I deserved, but that is life. I recently found out what I was good at, I plan to be an architect, and I know you'll find your own talents too. Just don't ever give up, and all that hard work will pay off.

Answer 6

I know what you mean, all the tests tell me I'm above average but it seems like I'm always behind someone or always making some stupid mistake. My best friend is very intellectually gifted and it makes me self-concious that no matter how much work I put into it I fall short of his effortless attempts. Still, I find that I learn something new everyday. Try not to be too hard on yourself, I find that when your feeling critical it helps to look at how far you've come and to think of what you've accomplished. Don't give up!

Answer 7

Don't be so hard on yourself! I am sure there are things that you really excell in and others, which perhaps you are not so good in; it's the same for everybody (except for those ridiculously clever people, who seem much more like superheroes). Keep putting 110% in everthing you do and eventually, you will look back and see a vast improvement in your over-all talents.

Answer 8

I wouldn't call myself intelligent or average, or anything like that. I'm just me. I do very well on some things, and poorly on others. I can be very eloquent, and extremely crude. I'm prone to moments of ease and brilliance, and also simply stupidity.

I tend to think that most people are walking defects though, so I might also be an elitist.

Answer 9

When others tell you that you are not living up to your potential, they are telling you what they want for themselves.

Whether you are slow or brilliant, the only thing that you should be interested in is what it is that you want to do; what makes you happy.

The only criteria needed for evaluation of ones potential is: do you contribute to a functioning society. If you are, and you are happy in what you do, then just do it.

As for myself, I have in IQ of 148 (last tested) and I drive a truck for a living. Why do I drive a truck? I enjoy it and I'm good at it.

Answer 10

You may be creative, you just may not have found your interest. I have a relative who is at or slightly below average intelligence. She is very creative and musical. She gets frustrated though. One has to realize that you get one life, enjoy it, screw what everyone else thinks.