How to Think Like a Genius 55-Self-Esteem
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Rick Rosner)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/08/08
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What about someone’s self-esteem?
Rick Rosner: When I thought I had a low IQ, I had low self-esteem and so if you’re trying to make yourself feel better, if you’re trying to test yourself to see if you can take on an intellectually demanding profession, then, yea, that’s a semi-legitimate reason. The SAT is an indicator and just as lousy as IQ tests are. Your best indicator of if you can take on a challenging profession is how you do in the classes that teach you the skills that you need in that profession.
You can do it without a test that tells you what your brain’s benchpress is. If you’re taking engineering and getting Bs and As in most of them, then maybe you can be an engineer, same thing with statistics classes and becoming an actuary with many more years of study.
Jacobsen: If you look at some of the people claiming the highest scores, two major ones. First, the idea that they posers in the sense that they are either frauds, fakes, or are not geniuses or do not have high IQs. Second, the fact that there is a tremendous amount of self-promotion that is a little bit off-putting to me.
Rosner: I can’t argue with that.
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