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Have you ever felt that you're the smartest person in the room?
That maybe nobody gets you because you're just too sophisticated?
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10.
You're Left-Handed You may have to put up with right-handed desks
and other pitfalls of being left-handed, but you also get the chance to gloat about how
smart you are.
A joint study performed by the University of Liverpool, University of Milan, and Maastricht
University found that left-handed people exhibit a more developed right-brain hemisphere.
That hemisphere is directly responsible for processing spatial reasoning and rotating
mental representations.
Left-handed people also tend to have a greater link between the two hemispheres, which assists
in information processing.
9.
Your Sense of Humor is Unparalleled Have a problem where you tend to laugh at
dark jokes?
You may be a genius.
A study in the Cognitive Processing journal concluded that people who enjoy dark humor
tend to have a higher IQ.
To prove the correlation between an inappropriate sense of humor and intelligence, 156 male
and female subjects were read cartoons from The Black Book by Uli Stein.
Each participant indicated whether they'd understood and appreciated the joke, then
took a basic IQ test.
In general, those that understood the joke and found it funny also scored higher on the
IQ test.
8.
You Enjoy the Night If this one's true, everyone at Team Top 10
is as smart as they come.
Psychology Today once reported that people with higher intelligence are typically night
owls.
Young Americans were studied and it was determined that those with a higher IQ enjoyed staying
up later.
Psychologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Satoshi Kanazawa, followed
this up with a report that claimed there is a direct relation between IQs and sleeping
patterns.
According to Kanazawa, the average brain has been conditioned to follow the same sleep
patterns of primitive people, who rose and fell with the sun.
7.
You Enjoy a Challenge If you're a true genius, you aren't going
to be looking for the easy way out.
You'll want the challenge and you'll want to learn every step of the way.
A true genius may find themselves sacrificing sleep for the sake of a good riddle or solving
an illusion or brain teaser.
People of higher IQ and genius-level intellect don't find much joy in simplistic puzzles
that even "commoners" could solve.
6.
You Enjoy a Good Book It's not so much that "non-geniuses" don't
read, but someone who qualifies as a genius or has a much higher IQ is more prone to spending
a Saturday evening deep in a book.
There is, however, believed to be a correlation between reading more and an increase in levels
of the three types of intelligence: Emotional intelligence, crystallized intelligence, and
book knowledge.
It may also help if you start reading books written by geniuses or biographies about geniuses,
but that's not an official study.
5.
You're a Worrywart There's nothing worse than spending your days
worrying about everything.
The end of the world?
It's always on your mind.
Terrorism?
Can't quite stop thinking about it, right?
Well, there's a chance that overactive mind of yours may mean you're a genius.
Dr. Adam Perkins, expert of Neurobiology of Personality at King's College in London believes
he found a link between anxiety, overactive imaginations, and very intelligent people.
One argument in favor of the belief is that this level of concerned imagination is a self-preservation.
4.
You're Addicted to Something That may sound a little contradicting and
you may immediately think that if someone gets addicted to something, they're already
not smart for trying an addictive substance.
If history says anything, though, people deemed genius were known for their addictive habits.
Consider Charles Dickens and his love for opium or Edgar Allan Poe's struggle with alcohol.
Recluse Howard Hughes checked off many "genius" boxes and topped it all off with his addiction
to opiates.
The list goes on and on and includes names like Sigmund Freud, Vincent van Gogh, and
even fictional geniuses like Dr. Gregory House and Sherlock Holmes.
(Although, personally, I think you’re smarter if you don’t get involved at all with any
of these abused substances.)
3.
You Have a Curious Mind It would make sense that a genius would be
curious, right?
It was Albert Einstein, who, by the way, was thought to have an addiction to tobacco and
cocaine, that said "I have no special talent.
I am only passionately curious."
Research in 2016 from Adrian Furnham and Helen Cheng performed in London discussed the connection
between childhood intelligence and the curiosity they show as an adult.
It was determined that 11-year-olds that scored high on an IQ test were more open to life
experiences at an older age.
2.
You're Reserved The Gifted Development Center took a look
at "gifted children" to determine what it was like to be a sort of childhood genius.
What they determined was that, sometimes, the highly intelligent have a higher level
of reservation.
The study found that 60% of gifted and intelligent kids had introverted personalities.
It also showed that more than 75% of people sporting an IQ of 160 or higher were also
shy.
1.
You Talk to Yourself Genius or crazy?
it's a fun game to play in the subways of major cities.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology printed a study performed by psychologists
Daniel Swigley and Gary Lupya that theorized that talking to yourself was actually pretty
beneficial.
The study set 20 people off in search of an object in a supermarket.
First, they had to search for the item in silence.
The second go around, they could speak to themselves and what was found was that those
that spoke to themselves were able to complete the tasks more easily.
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