Jordan Peterson: Advice for Hyper-Intellectual People

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What I find shocking is the number of people with doctorates who are not intellectually curious and become extremely hostile if you try to have an intellectual conversation with them.

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If you're intelligent, people assume you're arrogant even if you're humble. You can't be intelligent without people hating you for it because it makes many people feel inferior. Ignorance is applauded in society.

As someone of pretty average intelligence, this will be extremely helpful to me as I continue to pretend and act like a hyper intellectual genius.

When I was a kid I idolized my uncle. He was so smart and so wise. I was always messing up in school and breaking things being careless. He always let me hang around with him in his shop though holding a flashlight for him. In my 20s I finally asked him how he got so smart and wise to stuff. He grinned and said “real wise men were once real dumb kids and being smart was from books.” He let me hang out cause he saw himself in me. Now he’s gone and I’m him with my boy holding the flashlight for me. Lol.

"so, yeah." -jordan Peterson

When I was in high school I fell in love with the academia aesthetic because I loved the idea of being a gifted intellectual and I love pursuing knowledge. This also was because I felt intellectually inferior and I would often get in heated debates because it felt like I had to prove. But then one person told me in the community, we are all learning. It took away the hierarchy or competition mindset for me. I left the academia aesthetic behind but I still enjoy exploring ideas and philosophies and understanding the human experience.

I completely agree with Jordan on the points he's making in this video. I find myself bored with small talk and most people get very bored with what I want to talk about, which is usually abstract.

4 Million people: sometimes my genius is... it’s almost frightening.

" The difference between stupidity and genius , is that genius has it's limits." - Einstein

I think because I started to be smarter than people around me from a very young age, even while being the guy who never talk I was very arrogant, and I still am, but it’s been only a few months that I’m working on it. Everyone told me I was really smart since I’m a child and it made me feel superior (especially because I was also very curious and I have a good memory, I was wiser than people my age). My dad has an IQ of 149 and always amazed people around him, and everyone expected me to be like him. But I became lazy because I never had to work until I was in a university, and now I failed my first year in that university twice, because I don’t know how to work since I never had to. I’m impressed by hardworking people, because I never really did that, but I have to learn that skill now. Anyway, all that to say, being smart is not all good, because it made me arrogant, deeply depressed since I was 7, and too lazy for my own good.

Humility is the only path from Intellect to wisdom

"You know, I'm somewhat of an intellectual myself."

"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools"

Six years ago, I stumbled across this video. It was a time when I was mentally ill, terribly anxious and as lost as one could be. It was the beginning of a journey, that would teach me what suffering, morally good suffering means. I've got engaged with the litterature of C.G Jung, MLVF and many others. Even though still suffering, my life has meaning, and I'm slowly leaving these authors behind and beginning to live the life I was made to live. My gratitude, even if not too high, is slowly growing despite several setbacks. Seeing this video popping on my recommend feed, makes me reflect the time my life changed, and maybe awakes a little bit of happiness. I've now gone a full circle.

I have learned a great deal from my Non-Verbal Severely Autistic 19-year-old son. Depspite reading voraciously and trying to learn about everything and travelling the world, I learn more by watching him and trying to understand his needs. Knowledge can come from anywhere. Wisdom appears to be scarcer but is always present.

“True knowledge exists in knowing you know nothing!” -Socrates “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” -Socrates

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One of the most challenging things I had to overcome was realising at 19 years old that I wasn't as gifted and intelligent as everyone always told me I was. I just had a headstart on everyone else and wasted my potential by becoming lazy. Now university is kicking my ass and I struggle to develop the work ethic that is necessary. I feel terrible about it, my parents keep ridiculing me even though they never got as far as me. I hate myself for letting this happen