The first thing the man says is that people with very high IQSee above. have doubt about themselves more than almost anyone near them. They are not looking for someone to say nice things to them. They have a structureNot in Basic. A way that a thing is put together. Here: the doubt is built into the building, not painted on. in their head that says: you are less able than you are. The ones who do not see how hard a thing is have the most belief in themselves. The ones who see all of it—every part of how hard it is—see the parts they have not done yet.
What this makes is a sort of low, quiet anxietyNot in Basic. A feeling that something is not right, but you do not know what, and it does not go away. that they are getting away with something. That the people near them have given them too much credit. That one day someone is going to see through them. And the smarter they are, the better the argumentA chain of thoughts that go one after the other. Here: the chain is being used against the person who makes it. they can make against themselves. Because the same brain that is good at hard things is equally good at making reasons why they are not good enough.
People with high IQThe number again. go to bed late. This is not because they have made a decision to go to bed late. It is because their brain does not want to go to bed when the sun goes down. ResearchNot in Basic. Looking at a thing very hard for a very long time and writing down what you see. says this may be because the power to go against your body's natural clock for things that you have given yourself to do—reading, thinking, making things—is a thing that comes more in people with higher intelligenceNot in Basic. The property of being good at seeing what is happening and what will happen..
What this means in the world is that a great number of very smart people are not getting enough rest. They are a little off. They are living in a world that was made for people who get up when the sun comes up, and they will never be at home in that world. This often has the look of being lazyNot in Basic. Not doing the things that other people say you should do, at the time they say you should do them. Note: the word is the name of this document.. But their machine just keeps a different time.
They say things to themselves. Out loud. More than they would say at a meal with other people. This is a true thing. Saying a thing out loud makes the brain do the thing in a different way than only thinking the thing. When there is no other person to say things to, the talk still has use. So they have the talk with themselves.
The side of this that touches other people is that sometimes they get seen doing it in a food storeA place where you give money and get food. The other name is "shop" but that is also not Basic. and have to make the other person think they were talking on the telephoneA small flat thing that everyone has. It was for talking. Now it is for looking at YouTube..
People with very high IQStill the number. have more anxietyThe bad feeling. It has come back. than other people. The same power for seeing what will come that makes them good at taking things to bits also makes them very good at seeing everything that could go wrong. Your brain is, among other things, a machine for seeing danger. A more powerful brain is not a more quiet brain. Sometimes it is a faster, more complete danger-seeing machine. One that can make disasterNot in Basic. A very bad event. The sort of event your brain likes to think about at 3am. pictures you had not even thought of yet. At great speed.
They put things down and do not have any idea where the things went. Monday things. Small things. Keys. Whether they sent a replyNot in Basic. An answer. The thing you send back when someone sends you a thing.. The name of a person they have seen four times. This makes the people near them angry. It also makes them angry at themselves.
The reason that makes the most sense is that the brain is giving its attention to the hard things and not giving attention to the small things that come again and again. The keys always end up somewhere. Something else was more important. This is why a person who can keep fifteen steps of a problemA thing that is not right and needs to be made right. Or: a thing that is not right and cannot be made right, which is the worse sort. in their head at the same time sometimes does not know if they have put the fire out on the cooking thing.
They use more words. They use stranger words. They use the bad words—the ones your mother's mother would put her hands over her ears for. ResearchThe hard looking again. says that people who are at home with tabooNot in Basic. A thing that everyone has made an agreement not to say or do. The agreement is not written. It does not need to be. language have higher marks on tests of word intelligenceThe number's friend.. Not lower. The people who say the bad words the most are not doing it because they have no other words. They are doing it because they see all the words and they have made the decision that this word—the four-letter one—is the right one for this momentThe smallest amount of time in which a thing can happen..
The last thing is that the world is too much. Too loud. Too bright. Just too much. The brain that takes in more informationNot in Basic, but everyone uses it. Things that you see and hear and feel that come into the brain. when it is thinking also takes in more of the world when it is living. Food places with many people in them are truly more than the brain can take. Some texturesNot in Basic. The way a thing has feeling when you put your hand on it., sounds, or light is not in the back of the brain where it does not get in the way. It is in the front of the brain where it is a problemAgain. There are many problems..
The same bandwidthNot in Basic. The amount of things a thing can take in at one time. A pipe. A wider pipe takes in more water. A wider brain takes in more noise. that takes in hard things deeply also takes in the world deeply. And the world is a lot.
If you see yourself in this—in the doubt, in the 3am, in the weight of a brain that does not stop—that seeing is important. Not because intelligenceThe number. The last time. makes bad feeling more true. But because a great number of people who have this sort of mind go through their whole life being told they have every good thing, and not able to see why it still has so much weight.
Now you see why.
You are watching this at 3am. You put your keys down somewhere. You are talking to yourself about what the man on the screen just said. The restaurantNot in Basic. A food place. The loud one. was too loud. You doubt whether you are smart enough to be watching a video about smart people. The video is about you. You knew that from the start. That is the first habitThe thing you do again and again. Here: the habit of watching things about yourself at 3am and not being certain they are about you..