I Knew There Was A Good Reason

Recently my best friend of 30+ years died after having a non-invasive surgery on his back…..after that I am down to acquaintances very few friends.

I know a lot of people but am not that close with them at all….I am closer to my blogging friends than anyone in this town.

Sometimes I think I am just an extrovert that prefers my own council or maybe it is I am anti-social.  (Thinking, thinking)

According to research, intelligent people tend to have fewer friends than the average person because the smarter you are, the more selective you become. The more intelligent you are, the less satisfied you are with the quality of your life and you thrive hard towards that objective.

People with higher IQs are less likely to socialize although, it is proven that socializing with people and making friends makes you happy.

The reason why people with high IQs have less or no friends is that Intelligent people are focused on long-term objectives in life. They see the bigger picture and driven by their intelligence, they urge to create or achieve bigger than themselves.

Intelligent people are also very conscious about their well-being and they typically tend to avoid anything that displeases them. Intelligent people deem socializing as a distraction. They don’t want to meet and interact with new people amid distraction to their work.

Such people are happily surrounded by their favorite environment, circumstances, and people they feel comfortable with. They are least likely to break their comfort zone to try new things and experiences.

Smart people do cherish their friendship but they tend to be selective with how to utilize their time.

(beingguru.com)

So there are reasons….https://ideapod.com/reasons-smart-people-fewer-friends/

When I was in high school I found myself disgusted with the political trends in my state and started looking for better ways to help society…..that lead me to so-called ‘Left wing politics’ and I still believe in them for I have never wavered from my core beliefs.

A provocative new study has found a link between left-wing beliefs and both higher intelligence quotient (IQ) scores and genetic markers believed to be associated with higher intelligence.

As psychology researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities report in their new paper, published in the journal Intelligence, numerous intelligence tests found that being more clever “is correlated with a range of left-wing and liberal political beliefs.”

“Our results,” the paper’s authors wrote, “imply that being genetically predisposed to be smarter causes left-wing beliefs.”

As with all research on human intelligence, the work is fraught. There are different types of intelligence, and it’s hard to draw the line between nature and nurture, since education clearly causes IQ test scores to rise.

Still, the paper’s methodology is compelling. The UM authors gleaned results from a study of more than 200 families, some of which included only biological children, others only adopted children, and a smaller portion of which had both adopted and biological kids.

“We find both IQ and genetic indicators of intelligence, known as polygenic scores, can help predict which of two siblings tends to be more liberal,” study author Tobias Edwards told PsyPost in a fascinating interview about the research. “These are siblings with the same upbringing, who are raised under the same roof.

https://futurism.com/neoscope/left-wing-beliefs-intelligence

Please understand I am not bragging in the least….I had often wondered why I did not get along with people around me….

I Knew There Had To Be A Reason!

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”