I have an official MENSA IQ of 178 and a near photographic memory. Life is…….very boring and kind of frustrating, lonely and depressing.

Truth is, when you have a very high IQ you’re usually very lazy, and not that motivated to succeed? You just have this confidence in your intellect, where you don’t care if you fail at a job, because you know the next job will be even better.

We’re slackers. That’s the best way to describe it.

So, why is life boring, frustrating and depressing?

Well, almost every conversation I have is very tedious. I tend to know the point someone is trying to make, after a matter of seconds - but then they spend a further 2–3 minutes explaining it. The world just operates at a 125 IQ level so you’re always waiting for people to catch up with you?

What’s my life like? A voracious, overwhelming need to learn and absorb information.