Race Card and NightmareonKStreet: Your hypersensitivity is showing. Calm down, go outside, maybe spend some time off line…or perhaps read a book, that might increase your IQ score so you don’t have to be so sensitive about it.

JustTruth101 on November 5, 2007 at 8:19 AM

Thanks for the advice; now go take a nap. You’re probably tired from having to retype hypersensitivity so many times.

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I was tested and determined to have a high IQ in grade school. I took AP physics, Calculus, Government and composition in high school. I have attended ivy league and other high ranking universities. My alma mater, USC, is less prestigious, but no Podunk U. I have been successful in life…but still have a long way to go.

I honestly think that my IQ was the least determinant factor in my life thus far; second only to college.

Don’t get me wrong, my IQ probably makes it easier when I’m solving the Rubik’s cube. But I think my parental guidance and discipline was far more important to my upbringing.

My father, a physician, was far more intelligent than I could hope to be; my mother too. My grandfather, who never graduated high school, was one of the smartest people I have ever known.

Incidentally, 2 of my closest friends were in remediation throughout their school years. They were treated as “dull” by people with presumably high IQs. Both of these guys have turned out to be highly intelligent, successful business owners and great friends. Yet it was intellectuals who dismissed them early in life.

A high IQ can be a confidence booster and obvious catalyst to learning. Character, however, is the more admirable quality — enhanced by hard work, commitment and sacrifice.

Being smart just requires you to take a test and get a good score.

The Race Card on November 5, 2007 at 4:20 PM