Smartest man on earth, Chris Langan, interview on many topics

Come on…that’s Ron Swanson…??

Absolutely true, you see it all the time. Some very intelligent people lack basic other skills they need to be successful.

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Absolutely true, you see it all the time. Some very intelligent people lack basic other skills they need to be successful.

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The more 'abstract' an individual's reality becomes, the more 'spiritual' and less 'worldly' they become. I.e., the rules of normality are blurred and therein the motivation to be "successful" fades away. In fact, they seem simplistic, foolish and an impediment to higher vision.

This said, people who go out on this limb - by choice or naturally so - had damn well better have their ducks in a line, lest they find themselves alone, or worse, in company with various degrees of eccentric schizophrenic and loveless phantom personalities who are on a one-way path to hell (absence of Love/God).

"Behold, I will take the wise in their own craftiness". I've watched a pretty good bit of Langan when I found him a couple of months back, and he seems like a solid guy. He is also smart and wise enough to be a professed Christian. Otherwise, the Evil - which he believes is a real and existential spiritual power, and becomes an active and predatory personal challenge to the degree that on sees and acts on Truth - would use his own vision (Ego) against him and take his soul. IMO, no human that moves us the visionary reality perceptive bubble can withstand such disaster outside of Jesus's protective power. Jesus is indeed "Savior" of Humanity. That's His job, as "firstborn", and the original mold of Individuality/limited, self-aware Lifeforms.

I had planned on dropping Langan on ThinePreparedAnnointed when he visits, just to get his opinion.

Happy Thanksgiving to the Board.

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Not uncommon for people with that IQ (if it's true).

There is such a thing as too smart. And if you are at that level, you have to have some other traits to go along with it - drive, confidence, etc.

Lots of super smart people don't have those things.

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I went to high school with a guy that was a math wizard. He had a rough background. He worked on cars, smoked cigarettes and hung out with a bad crowd rather than cultivated his talent. I’m pretty sure he ended up in jail at some point.

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Many such cases

A huge component of success is willingness to play the game and toe the line. A lot of highly intelligent people aren’t willing to do it.

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Yep. Society rewards people who play the game without exposing it as a game. Thats a difficult ask of someone who is smart enough to see it for what it is.

Oh my. Go check out his Twitter.

Chris Langan wouldn’t make it half an hour posting here.

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He chooses to live on a small horse farm in Missouri and hasn’t done very many notable things

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Then he is indeed smart and has deep historical knowledge.

Nicola Tesla did absolutely amazing, earth-moving things and he suddenly and mysteriously died and immediately had his works and intellectual property confiscated by the US government.

The smartest human ever tested is actually a woman, Marilyn vos Savant. IQ 228. She has also for the most part led a life of not much notoriety, and dropped out of college to help run her family restaurant, and then got married.

I tested at a very high IQ when I was a child. I have never mentioned it here before and probably won’t again. I remember taking the tests and becoming very bored and intentionally missing a couple of questions because I thought they were silly, and I guess even with that the score was very high. Got selected/invited into all sorts of things after that.

I do well for myself, but could do much better if I changed my personality. I am abrasive and don’t socialize much. I have no fear of public speaking though, and have zero problem standing up for myself aggressively with employers. I’m an engineer btw. So I’m in this strange limbo of where I bring a ton of value and do some things that pretty much no one else in the company can do, or at least can’t do quickly like I can, yet at the same time I’m a terrible manager, and I do all work on my own and people trying to manage me become irrelevant quickly because the things they ask me to do I usually have already done, or I’ll argue with them about something I think is wrong, and if it’s brought before the owner I usually win out. So I’m pretty much a rogue agent.

I say all that because I have gifts, spatial reasoning type things where I can visualize 3D mechanical concepts in my head instantly based on a quick glance at a blueprint, or even a description of something. I could be wildly successful, much more so than I am, if I chose to behave differently, but I just won’t and never will. I am not very concerned with money outside of having enough to be comfortable and allow my wife to stay home, and outside of that I have no concern with it. I understand deeply how smart people can be misfits by their own doing because I live it every day.

A lot of the time people disagree strongly with me on here and think I’m retarded, but I really am a contrarian to amuse myself to an extent, as well as pushing the envelope in other ways, mixed with some things I do strongly believe in. I’ll keep to myself where those lines are.

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I do well for myself, but could do much better if I changed my personality. I am abrasive and don’t socialize much. I have no fear of public speaking though, and have zero problem standing up for myself aggressively with employers. I’m an engineer btw. So I’m in this strange limbo of where I bring a ton of value and do some things that pretty much no one else in the company can do, or at least can’t do quickly like I can, yet at the same time I’m a terrible manager, and I do all work on my own and people trying to manage me become irrelevant quickly because the things they ask me to do I usually have already done, or I’ll argue with them about something I think is wrong, and if it’s brought before the owner I usually win out. So I’m pretty much a rogue agent.

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I have gifts, special reasoning type things where I can visualize 3D mechanical concepts in my head instantly based on a quick glance at a blueprint, or even a description of something. I could be wildly successful, much more so than I am, if I chose to behave differently, but I just won’t and never will.

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What you need is a partner. The Jobs to your Woz.

Your failings aren't your IQ, btw, it's your personality type. You need someone above a certain IQ threshold with a personality type that starts with E to pair with you.

And/or, study marketing in your spare time to learn how to fake it.


ETA: you have to be careful with the high IQ extroverts. They're typically sociopaths and the wrong one will use and abuse you