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The Curse of the High IQ

By: Aaron Clarey
Narrated by: Jason Brooks
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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.

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Great Book, funny and provocative.
But I believe that many reader of this book have need to believe they are smart.

They will after reading this book recommend the book to show of passive that they are smart, they will use quotes from the book for a while until they forget.

but if you are truly smart,bank the book in to your mind, only recommend it to your smart best friend.

I would hate meet the person who have read this book , only for him to show this book down my throat,in hope I will get that he's smart.

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Aaron Clarey is one of those people that you're never quite sure how seriously to take, but who never fails to both entertain and thought-provoke. There's a lot of questionable logic in here based on his own personal prejudices. I'm not convinced that IQ is as much of a fixed quotient, or a determinant of personal traits as he claims in this book, nor am I convinced by dubious assertions like "only dumb people are religious", but despite all this, he never fails to make you think in interesting and different ways about our social norms and interactions.

His amusingly strident and provocative ranting is entertaining enough to see you through the parts of the book where one is inclined to doubt his thesis - and his argument is strong enough to interest you during the rest of it.

It's all very interesting - as long as you don't think too carefully about the angry, nihilistic premises on which it's based.

The narrator is good to, and captures the tone of the author well.

Clarey's usual pugnacious and amusing style.

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and people around me. It's lonely, it's confusing, it can be even scary to live a life and not realizing you are too much to those around you.

answers many questions I had about myself

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If you have a brain and are not an indoctrinated leftist moron then you need this.

Brilliant.

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a great short book that puts so much into perspective without the waffle. I look forward to reading more from the author.

just brilliant

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