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The High IQ Society. We're more than you think!

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4/ Finding one room where none of this is a problem is worth more than most people realise until they find it.
We've been building that room since 1946.
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Things that are true about high intelligence that nobody tells you when you're young:

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3/ The boredom is a signal, not a character flaw. It means the current input is insufficient for the current processor.
Every teacher who called it "not paying attention" was half right about the symptom and completely wrong about the cause.

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The most expensive talent in most organisations is the person who prevents disasters that never officially happened.
There is no metric for catastrophe avoided.
There is also no promotion for it.
This is not a coincidence.

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The most intellectually honest conversation you can have is with someone as well-informed as you are who has reached the opposite conclusion.
Mensa has a lot of those conversations. They rarely resolve. That's usually the point.
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Intelligence without curiosity is just pattern-matching.
Curiosity is the thing that decides which patterns are worth noticing.
We test the first. The second is what makes the first worth anything.
Eighty years of paying attention to this distinction.
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The most important question: what does it cost a society when 155 million people who qualify for Mensa have never been told? Not in ego. In unrealised potential, unsolved problems, untested ideas. That is the question Mensa was founded to address.
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Six questions about intelligence that are rarely asked — because the obvious answers feel too settled. 🧵

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Why do we describe people as "street smart" or "book smart" as if they are alternatives — when every serious model of cognition treats them as partially overlapping, partially independent capacities?

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Every team has someone who asks too many questions before committing.
That person has also saved the team from at least three expensive mistakes they'll never know about.
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After 80 years: intelligence is common. Good thinking is rare. The difference is practice, environment, and honest feedback. We're here for all three.
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Eighty years of paying attention to intelligence. Here's what we've learned. 🧵

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The loneliest experience in intelligence is having no one to think alongside. Not someone who agrees with you. Someone who pushes back well. That's what the community exists for.