You're gifted enough to cruise through the first few stages of your education without trying, so you forge an identity as "the smart kid" but never build up skills in learning or studying, so when you finally get to a level where your natural intelligence can't carry you anymore you can't keep up with the people who did learn those skills and you start to fail and lose your identity as the smart kid which causes you to break down because that'd how you defined yourself for so long..... or so I've heard.

[–] twelvefloatinghands@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

There is no green region. It's blue all the way up.

[–] Zatore@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't mind being aware of everything, but I do mind that nobody else is

[–] ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago

As you get older, you sort of get used to the fact that the majority of your fellow passengers are oblivious to the fact we’re on a bus speeding towards a cliff, driven by depravity and delusions of grandeur. And you realize short of a miracle, nothing is going to change it. It’s either that or you go mad. ¯\(ツ)/¯

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Did you know that 80% of people think they're above average intelligence?