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  • By: Aaron Clarey
  • Narrated by: Jason Brooks
  • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (50 ratings)

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By: Aaron Clarey
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Society, by statistical necessity, needs to focus on the majority. It needs to be built and designed for "the average". Society, by moral necessity, also needs to focus on the disadvantaged and disabled, helping those who cannot help themselves. But while the majority of society's resources, attention, and infrastructure is dedicated to average or below-average people, little-to-none of it is dedicated to the abnormally intelligent. And while having a high IQ is an overall net benefit in life, being a statistical intellectual freak is not without its drawbacks. Welcome to The Curse of the High IQ.

Whether you fall asleep during class, constantly ram heads with your boss, can't understand why people watch the Oscars, are an alcoholic, or are accused of having ADD, having a high IQ can be a maddening experience. What you see as the obvious solution is what the "normies" will fight against tooth and nail. Those Ds you keep getting in English? Your superior mind being held hostage by the boring and inferior mind of your teacher. And you'd like to start a family? Good luck finding an intellectual equal for a spouse. And so while the world obsesses on their own problems, no one is paying attention to the problems of the abnormally intelligent. However, that all changes now with Curse of the High IQ.

Curse of the High IQ is the first book specifically written for abnormally intelligent people. It identifies and addresses a litany of problems intelligent people face, analyzes them and provides solutions. But more importantly it aims to bring sanity to those who struggle with abnormal intelligence, especially those who are unaware they have it. So if you're constantly at odds with society, are suffering from depression or ennui, can't find any reason or agency in life, or just plain can't find any friends, consider purchasing this book.

©2016 Aaron Clarey (P)2016 Aaron Clarey

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Less than mediocre

This isn’t a book, it’s a ramble.

The author claims he has an IQ of 147 but his audiobook sounds like it was written by a two year old.

He makes wild claims and does not understand how complicated people actually are. He says all spectators of sports are dumb people but then goes on to say that Bill Burr is abnormally intelligent. At least do your research - Bill Burr is an avid fan of multiple sports.

It sounds like this guy took his IQ test at one of those websites where you have to answer three questions: what’s your credit card number, social security and personal ID number. My assumption is he confused his cholesterol results for his IQ.

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Truth telling that may have saved me

Has explained my whole life in 3.5 hours. Thanks for allowing me to see that I’m not alone.

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Good book.

Enjoyed listening to this audiobook, most of it was a confirmation that I wasn’t crazy. I would recommend it to a friend.

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Great book

Couldn't agree more with the content, down to earth description of problems high IQ people encounter

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Undermines its initial premise

Entertaining in parts, observant in others, yet overall too short to really dive into the premise of "changing things for High IQ people with this book", a bit too anecdotal and the tone can be downright generalising and demeaning.

I personally take a more fluid approach to intelligence - that ultimately, outside of predisposition, neuroplasticity reins supreme and that therefore intelligence is more fluid than might be coded for directly in genes; epigenetic effects are very real, and also can be heritable (not discussed in this book at all, which is ironic for a self-proclaimed mountain of intelligence).

The conclusion then, is that a lot of people, most in fact, are under achieving their potential due to social/economic factors that ensured poor genetic expression, and more linear neural pathways; it is in this understanding that I'm a proponent of shirking all elitist viewpoints on intellect because the cost is too high in any Us VS Them style of thinking.

Also the value of information is entirely on how it is delivered; the most profound thought is forever a prisoner of the mind that can't express it in a way appealing to others, thus losing all theoretical values, and, in this, the tone of the book undermines it's proposed goals.

It's a very short book, so if you're trying to hit a reading challenge based on book count, and are mildly interested in this stuff, then you can add a notch to your belt quite easily.

I wouldn't spend much money on this, though.

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  • Jon
  • 08-06-2018

unabomber lite

Highlights some frustrating issues for intellectuals, very interesting, however at times it seems a bit like a rant and reminds me of how the unabomber speaks. I am sure the author is not a horrible or completely insane person who acts unethically, but I would say this book is condescending and does take a simplistic view of intelligence in general.

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