What is it really like to have an extremely high IQ? In this video, we explore the psychology of people with extremely high IQ and the hidden mental patterns that often come with a highly intelligent mind. While society often romanticizes intelligence, modern psychology reveals a more complex reality. Many highly intelligent people experience intense overthinking, emotional depth, and a constant drive to understand the world around them. From the “internal motor” of a brain that never stops analyzing, to the emotional intensity described in Dabrowski’s theory of overexcitabilities, this video explores the deeper side of high IQ psychology. Why do gifted minds struggle with perfectionism, social disconnection, and existential questions that others rarely think about? If you’ve ever felt mentally different, constantly analyzing life, or emotionally overwhelmed by your own thoughts, the psychology of intelligence may explain more than you realize. 🎬 Watch more videos: - https://youtu.be/mWGHdXNMGyU - https://youtu.be/imiheMx6cA8 💬 Share your experience in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe for more videos on psychology, human behavior, and deep emotional insight. #highiq #psychologyofintelligence #highiqpsychology #giftedmind #psychologyfacts
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93.47% of you who say “this is me” are coping hard
Thank you. This answers why I feel depressed late at night with a kind of hopelessness that I can't really explain. That part about perfectionism is something I have wrestled with all my adult life.
intelligence Is power
I remember once I had a deep convo with a random girl I never saw after and at the end I told her “Thank you for this conversation”. It was from the bottom of my heart because I felt normal for once
I’ve never felt so seen in my life. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
This video has relieved so much guilt and pressure from me. I thought I was wrong as everybody else was different..
NO WAY! I’ve got goosebumps right now! When he said the sensory over excitability! No waaay I’ve felt this my entire life and couldn’t explain why bright light annoys me and loud noises make me uncomfortable. I also absolutely hate crowded places, and I have never been to parties or anything like that. Bruh.. I’m shocked!
I’m just one minute in, and I’ve never felt so seen. I actually paused the video to do an IQ test just to see where I stand, and I’m in the 120+ range. I don’t care about intelligence much, but I’ve always felt alienated. My big brother is quite intelligent, and he used to say that people are dumb and so does my mom. We are all quite talented and smart but I noticed that all three of us are socially isolated. We are sociably smart and have friends but we can’t talk to most people. It’s tiring. I’ve always found it hard to relate to people. I don’t like partying, drinking, fashion, money, cars, complaining, etc. I want to sit down with someone I love and talk about deep things. I always say I like to be intellectually stimulated. This makes me feel loved. I don’t know, man, I just feel like I see the reality of the world painfully clearly and people around me can’t wait to get wasted. I feel alone.
The only one of the five I lack is emotional over excitability. I am a highly intelligent person and view my intelligence as both a gift and a curse. I actually consider myself to be a slow thinker and need time to marinate in new knowledge to come out the other side with actual understanding. Average people who watch me from the outside believe I am a fast thinker, not knowing that I am not thinking, but rather reasoning with the understanding I already have. Reasoning isn't quite the same as thinking, it is more like using a calculator, you already have the inputs, you just need to know the output after applying the functions those inputs. Thinking is more about understanding the inputs. This video does highlight many of the problems that come with higher intelligence. However, being highly intelligent, sometimes we find ways to minimize or eliminate some of the negatives. We are also all different in our own way. For example, while I like deep exploration into my curiosities, I also like simplicity. I can actually enjoy small talk and the simplicity of others, because it's not the conversations I am attracted to, it's the people expressing their thoughts and feelings, where a common remark I get is that I am a good listener, something that makes many feel good. While I do have non-stop thoughts and music playing in my head, it is not like the engine is running at full throttle all the time. When I do want to rev up for a challenge, I am a bit like Goldilocks, I need the complexity to be just right. Too simple, it's not engaging, too complex and I can't be bothered. Just like average people have to think of what makes for a healthy lifestyle in terms of physical and emotional well being, highly intelligent people do the same with more emphasis on the thought of controlling the thoughts. The question becomes can you stick with the program.
“Ok “. I said to myself, if you are so clever find a way out of this”. So I have two personalities now. A social one for everyday use where I can learn from other happy people and my other one that can dream and stuff its nose in a book. Works quite well and I am very happy.
my brain never stops running
I don't feel like I qualify as an extremely high IQ individual but I experience 90% of these qualities and feelings. Especially the existentialist outlook, perfectionism, constant analysis, and sensitivity. Judging by my school aptitude and my children's IQ's, mine just might a bit higher than average but not exceptional. I wonder if this is the right term or base line for these attributes? Some of it, in my opinion, could be neurodivergent. Thank you and depressingly identified with this video.
21:30 "if parts of this video resonated with your own experiences (...)" ... parts? lol. 😄 No. That describes pretty much exactly my world. Thank you very much for that vid.
As a young man with autism, the intense feelings and empathy I get from extreme depth of thought is very palpable for me.
This was a great video. Spot on. The isolation and inability to connect with normal people is by far the biggest curse of intelligence. I have a very small friend group for that reason.
High IQ people need to unite with each other and rescue the world from those fools and sheep all around us.
I'm at a loss for words. I've never felt so understood
This one hit a a cut above the rest in terms of psychologically explaining the thinking individuals everyday life/struggle, and/or thought patterns. Or so I feel at least. Well done! 40+ years of detached thoughts from the general populace summarized in 20 minutes.
Where do I find people like are talked about in the last section? I am at a point where I have had to take up talking about sports (🤢) or small talk just to make people go away but not look like a donkey pit. I have had extensional depression since I was 5 and I started asking about space and death. I have studied religion and science to try and find out a reason for existence. All it did was make me realize holy books are written by man to control man and science is nothing but trying to figure out how to manipulate people to keep funding flowing. Nothing holds my interest for more than a couple months. So I continue to dumb down my life life to fit into society and wait for my chance to fall asleep.
High IQ can be a real struggle.