What are your perceptions of yourself and your intelligence?

[psychoangel691]

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I suffer from mediocrity. I know that I am an intelligent person, but I have never found something that I am excellent at. I am always okay at things. I have reached the level that I'm good at things if I really try, but I am never the best. This is why I struggled earlier on in my life to motivate myself to do things. It's an ongoing struggle that I have had to learn to cope with, but I hope someday to find my nitch.

^ I'm the same way. I'm good at a lot of different things but not really great at anything. It's like my dad says I'm a jack of all trades but a master of none. It gets really frustrating at times and make me feel like I'm never going to find that thing I'm really good at.

[foxfire667]

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I personally perceive myself as an intelligent person, and the things that I do generally reflect upon this.

I personally can become fairly decent at a variety of different things, but only one at a time. When I take something in that I gain interest in, I can only focus myself around this particular subject until I lose interest in it. I would imagine this would be derived from a sort of mentality that wants me to maximize my potential within the subject of interest, where if I do not do this, I feel as though I am or have done something wrong.

I also dislike human error, especially within myself. This makes me have a pessimistic sort of self mentality, which can sometimes get in the way of taking charge or saying things which could lead me to be incorrect for whatever reason. This mind-set doesn't run my life, but it occasionally will have an impact on situations like volunteering for competitions, answering questions I'm not absolutely sure I am correct in, etc.

[Iam90]

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This is because I've found that when you value or worship being intelligent too much you always feel like you're one step away from being made out to be a fraud and there's this neurotic desire to read and read and read even though the only thing you care about in the reading is getting the right bits of information to dominate a conversation about an issue.

I'm so well acquainted with this haha

i don't really know what i value anymore - it used to be intelligence, at a point generosity/kindness, and now - i don't know. what is the point of "valuing" anything? it seems fundamentally insincere when you have to sort through valuing different facets of your personality. i try to just be myself now - as cheesy an aphorism as it is - and it has been workin' out pretty well so far.

[JKPolk]

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[AquaTeen]

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Well I perceive myself as a very self-reliant person and I mean yea there are things I'm not good at but there are of course things I'm good or spectacular at. My intelligence is pretty high for being autistic but that just defines me as a person: Smart! I'm a huge English nerd and science nerd so those are some of the things that I'm highly intelligent in but Math and History not so much so intelligent people are the same as others but I perceive my intelligence as defining me and what I'm interested in

[ScylaX]

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ow nice bump
I don't like considering myself superior even though I have a great self esteem and shit because I'm INTJ, therefore I process by logical thinking and make a really really great analysis of myself for whatever reason and I ended up telling me to myself I was pretty competent. However I can occasionnally meet full-despair phases where, even though I'm really really confident, I feel like all of that is vanity, as futile as anything else I could think at the moment - it happens usually when I'm really disillusioned, it can be the slightest detail. But I quickly recover from that state in a few hours, usually once I went through a LOAD of research to extend my knowledge.

I rely on my knowledge to make reasoning, however I always, always manage to have my own opinion on something and develop it in a way it's MY idea and didn't took it from somewhere else. Doctus cum libro is one of my greatest fears, to be totally dependent of the books I read, not being able to think by myself : it's usually when an event makes me think that I break up in self-denial, telling to myself I'm some piece of shit or whatever. And then bewm - it's like magic, I feel happy again.

Even though my ego is great, I try not to feel superior to others and be objective on my own person. I'm not that great, I could be better, but I'm not also dumb, I have qualities, and always am tactical when it comes to any sort of thinking or arguing (heh another INTJ trait). I'm making meta-analysis, it's the ground of my ego. I hate when people happens to boast about their IQ, I didn't made any *real* IQ test because I don't have any personal time to spend with that kind of thing (it's such a hassle to move to some place to do it etc) so I score around 125 - 132 on internet IQ test, that's pretty much it, the MBTI is a way better road to know myself than IQ test, I find they're more a matter of ego-boosting and auto-biasing than anything else