Self-confidence and intelligence have no direct correlation.

How do you know you’re… Stupid was the question of the day, rather than how do you know you’re smart. Here are some pointers:

Society at large is created for the average person to navigate with relative ease, and regular schools are designed for the average person. Everyday jobs are for the regular person.

If you find it intellectually challenging to handle things designed for the average person, you could be considered stupid.

Stupid people overcome challenges more often.

A person’s self-confidence increases when they clear challenges. They feel they have learned and grown a lot, and that gives them a positive uplift to their self-confidence. Intelligent people rarely feel challenged, and that leaves them without growing opportunities. That, in turn, leaves them with an insecure feeling of not really knowing what more they can handle. From their perspective, they feel “childish” and “immature” because adult challenges, even as a child, didn’t feel like a huge ordeal at the time, let alone later in life.

People like doing difficult things. We like mastering difficult things. People with a lower IQ find more challenges and difficulties on a daily basis, and that leaves them more satisfied and self-confident than intelligent people feel. Intelligent people must challenge themselves immensely to gain that same feeling. That challenge must usually come from themselves so they can scale the challenge appropriately.

Reading comprehension.

If you found anything in this post challenging to understand, that may mean you’re stupid. In general, you might be considered stupid if you find it difficult to remember the meaning of big words and follow the logic of long sentences (within reason). That said, there is a certain intelligence in expressing complex ideas with common language rather than expressing small ideas with big words, and intelligent people understand the importance of simplifying their texts for the average person to understand easier.

Intelligent people often give up arguing with you.

Stupid people may get a boost of self-confidence when intelligent people give up arguments with them. The reason why they do is that they recognize that someone’s intelligence and capacity to understand things is so low that trying to explain anything too complex to them requires more effort than what it is worth. Therefore, they often decide to leave you to your false perceptions and even dangerous-to-you logic and move on with their lives.

Persistence is not a very intelligent trait. Intelligent people often move to a solvable problem rather than waste time on things they cannot change – like the understanding of a stupid person.

Stuff stupid people do.

• Enjoy easily classifiable groups of people: “Those people are bad, these people are good.”
• Trying to be one of the “good” people at any cost, even without fully understanding what makes those people “good” and others “bad” or when such values are not present in the optional groups.
• Skip over facts and ideas they don’t readily understand and deem them “unimportant” when they are actually difficult.
• Avoid the inconvenience of understanding complicated things.
• Decide on other people’s behalf what cannot be important to that person, because it isn’t important to the stupid person.
• Lack of imagination. (Stupid people rarely enjoy movies, books, and playing, even as children.)
• They enjoy shopping more than making things.
• Use sex as a means to an end – reproduction, seeking of security. (Oddly enough, enjoying emotionally complex sex for its own sake seems to be a particularly high IQ trait.)
• Stupid people rarely enjoy the idea of having pets. (Can be converted, but they typically don’t like the idea of having “strangers” in the house.)
• Stupid people are overly suspicious of strangers in general, but allow “a stranger” to turn into “a friend” too soon, and without sufficient proof of their reliability.
• Gambling. (Stupid people get addicted to gambling, smart(er) people on drugs and alcohol basically to MAKE THEMSELVES stupid enough to tolerate life and society.)
• Stupid people trust their instinct a lot more than what smart people give them credit for. (This is their strongest, most admirable trait. Smart people may lose this ability a bit, but can regain it.)
• Measure people’s value in status, power, and money, due to lacking understanding of better measurements to use.
• Credits their friends for kindness, generosity, and loyalty, themselves for loyalty only.
• Start arguments and wars in their bid to MAKE FRIENDS and create unions (one of their most intolerable traits.)
• Lack ability to dampen impulsive feelings.

Bad stuff stupid people do

• Not knowing when an argument is between future friends or is going to lead to a persistent and prolonged “war” between individuals or groups of people, even nations with no means of resolution.
• The goal of arguing (or war) is not to come to an agreement of facts but to establish submission and dominance.
• Arguing with volume and persistence or physical force rather than facts and logic.
• Stupid people engage in every argument they can get into eagerly, even when there was no argument started, they’ll take it for one as they see arguments as an opportunity for an alliance.
• Rely heavily on “talking points,” catch phrases, slogans that they may use as weapons instead of taking the opportunity to discuss the issue. “You’re a transphobe,” “believe all women,” “black lives matter.”
• They can hurt their friends just to see what they would do. To “get to know them” or to test their loyalty, love, or character, because they lack the ability to see it otherwise.

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