so am i smart or not?

Question

i got all a's and b's in college and even made the dean's list a couple times......and my iq is above average....



but at the same time........people are always correcting me (like at work and stuff)...and lookin at me weird when i dont know or understand something thats supposedly pretty obvious..... and it happens quite often....


does this make any sense???

ok...not exactly a "health" question....but i didnt know where else to put it????


i was jsut wonderin if anyone had any similar experience... i doubt it...

Answer 1

Sounds like maybe you are educated and book-smart, but possibly lacking in common sense, and what others feel is common knowledge.

It's a fact that education does not equal intelligence.

Sned an idiot to college and all you get is an educated idiot (not saying you're an idiot - just making a point)

Answer 2

Yes you are smart and the problem with really smart people is they lack common sense on a level. My boyfriend is n engineer and putting together a 2 years toy takes 3 days because it has to "just" right. I understand.

Answer 3

You may be booksmart but oftentimes folks who excel in the academic field have little or no common sense, and vice versa.

edit: For instance I have a friend who was always in National Honor Society, advanced classes, on the dean's list in college but she didn't know that each year's car model was different. She wanted a car model that was 10 yrs old but didn't understand that she couldn't buy a new one of those. She also didn't know how to tell if you have a cavity in your tooth.

Answer 4

Justin,
You are smart if you made A's and B's in college. That's not all that easy to do. I suspect that you are young and maybe haven't had time to fully develop your common sense. That comes with experience. No one knows everything, and the people with whom you are dealing might be surprised at some of the things you know that they don't. Don't let this situation destroy your self-confidence. When someone offers suggestions or correction just thank them graciously and learn from the experience. And don't stop learning just because you're out of college. Continue to learn and grow. Read books, watch the news and read the newspaper daily. Time will fix everything else.
Good luck.

Answer 5

There are lots of oddities with IQ.
I received all As in school, no Bs for me.
I have an IQ of 135 now, which was higher when I was young.
The decline in IQ is because I take medicine for Schizophrenia.

People have strengths and weakness of the mind.
Someone with a very high IQ may have difficulty understanding very simple procedures that are unfamiliar to them while a average IQ person of 105 may understand something very complex through teaching. All normal people have areas of knowledge and reasoning that we excel at regardless of our IQ

Being an older person with lots of success and lots of experience I would advice you to seek out an employment situation that comes easy to you. Finding the right job where you can utilize your brain power to it's fullest potential starts to add up in over the coming years with salary increases, promotions and a general sense of satisfaction that you are accomplishing things for yourself as well as completing your work and getting paid.

Correcting you when you make a mistake is one thing as it improves your job skill, but it is another for them to look at you 'weird' which borders on the not quite acceptable and done intentionally indicates ridicule. Don't permit people to position you psychologically lower than them through social interaction and don't stay in a job where they do that. It is a bad habit to pick up, so don't treat anyone that way because it's socially unacceptable.

Work at what you excel at and you will really get ahead in life.

Answer 6

Maybe you just have a hard time processing what it is you are doing at work. Everyone is good at different things....It doesn't mean you are not smart. For instance, I work in Finance, but am more of an Artist type, so some of the things that I do at work don't come to me as easily as it might to those who have a more mathematical mind. We're all just different, and your co-workers should understand that and be more sensitive. Unfortunately, people at work can be so rude and jerky sometimes. I suggest confronting them and telling them you'd appreciate their patience and that you are trying to understand.

Answer 7

Yes I knojw what you mean. I have this to a certain extent, as does my 12 y/o son. It can be related to ADHD, or you could have specific issues with the way you look at things. It's really frustrating. The human brain is amazing, isn't it?

If you're just out of college, most jobs have a steep learning curve anyway and this may mean nothing whatsoever except your education didn't prepare you specifically for your job -- after all, it's college, not vocational school.

Answer 8

I get that way too. I'm in GT at school and I have some of the highest grades, but my friends tell me I'm a social idiot. So I guess I have knowledge but no common sense or something. Is it like that?

Answer 9

Common sense is not the same as intelligence, someone may have a`s and b`s in college, but that does not mean they have common sense.

There are also people who will envy you for your intelligence and will find all types of reasons to bring you down, they are suffering from an inferior complex.

Such people will want to make a fool of you, so you will fell less of yourself.

Don`t let them bring you down, you know that you are intelligence and that is more important to yourself.

Answer 10

IQ has little to do with perception, and it would seem your perceptions are a bit askew as compared to others. Perhaps you have a touch of autism, or even ADD, many well known geniuses do, suggest you have your self tested.