What are characteristics of people with high IQS?

7 common traits of highly intelligent people

• They’re highly adaptable.
• They understand how much they don’t know.
• They have insatiable curiosity.
• They ask good questions.
• They’re sensitive to other people’s experiences.
• They’re open-minded.
• They’re skeptical.

Do people with a high IQ have higher expectations of others?

One of the interesting things they learned many years into the study is that not only do people with a high IQ tend to have higher expectations of the people around them, but the people around them tend to also have extremely high expectations of them. It becomes a double-edged sword where grace may be missing.

Is the IQ a good enabler or a hindrance?

The IQ is a great enabler, and it unfortunately also enables to experience unhappiness in much deeper and profound way than anyone with mediocre IQ would. The concept of communication range was established by Leta Hollingworth. It is +/- 2 standard deviations (roughly 30 points) up or down on one’s own IQ.

What is the ‘communication range’ between people with different IQs?

If the IQ difference between two persons is more than 30 points, the communication breaks up. The higher IQ person will look like an incomprehensible nerd and the lower IQ as a moronic dullard – and they will not find anything common. When I read this, the ‘communication range’ struck me as at best an oversimplification.

Is having a high IQ a blessing or a curse?

Let’s say high IQ is a blessing which comes with a terrible price. And each and every person with reading east from 135 has paid that price. HIgh IQ persons usually have also extremely vivid and wide spectrum of emotions and emotional life, and when they are happy, they are in rapture, and when they are unhappy, it is sheer emotional hell.