Museum
Artwork
§i. Photography§ii. Fashion§iii. Filmography and Cinematography
Contents
Book I. Introduction and Preliminaries
§i. Preface§ii. Introduction§iii. Editing§iv. Omitted or Missing Pieces§v. Preliminaries§vi. Certification§vii. Issue I. Velocity of Significance and Ideation§viii. Issue II. Abandoning Equality§ix. Human Shortcomings§x. Assumption Elimination§xi. Humans are Animals
Book II. Another Ethic
§i. Nature and Design§ii. Imagination and Filtration§iii. Constraint and Determinism§iv. Procrastination§v. Architecture of Ethics§vi. Situations and Significance§vii. Truth and Honesty§viii. The Comprehensible and the Incomprehensible and Social Alignment§ix. Consilience and Authentication§x. Development of Desire§xi. Evaluative Concepts§xii. Inferring to Moral Conclusions§xiii. Natural Diversity and Moral Diversity§xiv. The Distant Future, Legacies, and Morality
Book III. Living Autobiography
§i. Living Will§ii. Living Autobiography––– Portraits and Profiles§iii. ThoughtStreamTM (Thinking Shares)––– (Nov 7th, 2022 to Present)––– (Aug 18th to Nov 17th, 2022)§iv. SocialNuggetsTM (Experience Shares)––– (Oct 20th, 2021 - Present)––– (July 3rd, 2020 - Sep 1st, 2021)––– (Dec 12th, 2018 - July 3rd, 2020)§v. Open Health and Identity (Bodily Shares)§vi. Nature (Spatial Shares)§vii. Reading (Learning Shares)§viii. InkyFibers™ (Writing Shares)––– Site History (Writing Progressions)§ix. MediaClusters™ (Photo/Media Album, Life Evidence)§x. A Modern Homesteader (Draft Autobiography)
Book IV. Life Categories | Priorities
§i. Life Categories | Priorities§ii. The Personal Form and Its Purposes§iii. Related Accomplishments$iv. Category I. Cycles and Shifts (Calendar)––– Constraint and Determinism––– The Calendar Solved§v. Category II. Planning and Visualization––– Imagination and Filtration––– Planning and Executive Function––– Constraint and Determinism––– Procrastination––– Strategies for Managing Procrastination, Part One––– Life Goals and Blemishes You Can’t Deal With§vi. Category III. Fitness––– Sports and Fitness§vii. Category IV. Music and Art––– Music§viii. Category V. Humor, Fun and Enjoyment––– Short Stories§ix. Category VI. Property and Organization––– Land in Anchorage––– Human Banking§x. Category VII. Meditation, Mood, Habit, and Routine––– Meditation––– Text Personal Form––– PDF Personal Form§xi. Category VIII. Livelihood––– Work and Career Recommendations––– Related Accomplishments––– Professional Resumé––– Human Banking––– Frugal Living––– Inexpensive Energy––– Shopping§xii. Category IX. Environment§xiii. Category X. Cleanliness, Health and Hygeine––– Open Health and Identity––– Stress Checklist––– Sensory Checklist§xiv. Category XI. Mind and Mental Development––– Rational Times––– Inky Fibers––– Reading––– Mathematics––– The Burden of Having Too Many Ideas––– School Improvements––– Methods of Diagramming and Visualization––– Message Encryptor––– Trademarks––– Patents––– Alberta––– Image Player§xv. Category XII. Relationships––– Com––– News––– Sexuality––– Cults––– Advantages and Expectations––– Humans in Cans––– Subtraction––– Politics in Alaska––– Criminal Law––– Civil Law––– The Value of Social Platforms––– Anonymity§xvi. Category XIII. Rest and Rejuvenation––– Meditation§xvii. Category XIV. Nutrition––– Veganism and Vegan Recipes§xviii. Category XV. Outdoors and Travel––– Nature and Design––– Nature Channel––– Wildlife––– Off Grid Living in Alaska––– Foraging––– Camping and Homelessness
Book V. Conclusion
$i. Conclusion§ii. Post Script
Book VI. Appendices
§i. Appendix I.––– Bibliography, Citing and Referring––– Reading––– Library§ii. Appendix II.––– Notes––– Glossary, Coinages––– Terms and Conditions––– Privacy Policy––– Index
Chronology
Series
Thoughtstream™SocialNuggets™Vegan RecipesLegal RecorderListsShort StoriesOpen Health and IdentityRationalTimes™Portraits and Profiles
2024
Cosmological Arguments for a Diety and Other Related Arguments Originating in Myth
2023
Simple Solution for Creating New ReligionsThe Calendar SolvedExecutive Proposal to Correct Salesperson to Technologist RatiosInexpensive EnergyTruth and HonestyThe Comprehensible and the Incomprehensible and Social AlignmentConsilience and AuthenticationDevelopment of DesirePresentationsYou Did Not CareWorthlessnesses of Normal Social BehaviorGenerals, Presidents, Chiefs, and HierarchiesThe Arbitrary Scope of ScienceFrugal LivingSexualityMethods of Diagramming and VisualizationAdvantages and ExpectationsDescriptive Typological Systems and Wanting to Know PeopleLife Goals and Blemishes You Cannot Deal With
2022
CampingCultsFundamental ProblemsProfessional ResuméWork and Client RecommendationsHuman BankingSubtractionFalse and Hidden Alaska, and its Lackluster TourismEstablishment ReviewsAlaskan Travel Advice for MariahA Modern Homesteader Book DraftCertification RequirementsBio and StatsStress ChecklistMathematicsNatureWildlfeMediaClustersTM
2021
Nature and Design (Light Blue Notebook)MediaClustersTM
2020
Vegan RecipesMusicHumans in Cans
2019
Anchorage's Never Ending Crime Prevention LoopPersonal FormThe Dark Green NotebookVideo ListsMemeticClusters™WordlyCoinages™InkyFibers™Stuck Between a Moose and a Winterbear
2018
Retaining Your Sense of Intelligence Among Other Smart PeopleWhat is the Importance of Logical Reasoning in Critical Thinking?What is a Genius and Who Can Become One?Why Do So Many Intelligent People Have a Hard Time Socializing?Windy Day at the RVFly Tape Is Wrong!How Do People With IQs Over 180 Act and Think?How and Where Can I Take an Accredited IQ Test?Bag O' Marbles
2017
Historic Phill Hartsfield Knife For SaleEvening Visit From a Moose in AnchorageAcknowledgementsFlight from Tangier IslandWilderness is Close to AnchorageNo, You Really Won't See the Whales and Aurora BorealisThe Burden of Having Too Many IdeasProcrastination
2016
Strategies for Managing Procrastination, Part One
2015
Imagination and Filtration (Higher Order Attention, Dark Green Notebook)
2014
Black Notebook Two
2007
Black Notebook One
2005
Olive NotebookBeige Notebook
2004
Sand Notebook
2003
Personal FormRational Times

Why Do So Many Intelligent People Have a Hard Time Socializing?

Lending some experience from within the High IQ Community.

Author: Christopher Matthew Cavanaugh

Published: September 30th 2018

Edited: Original Edition

Quora Question: “Why Do So Many Intelligent People Have a Hard Time Socializing”

Everyone wants to talk to someone they can relate to. Highly intelligent people think of complex things. Often these things are built off of topics that most people only consider in late adulthood. The difference is that highly intelligent people may have considered these things already early in childhood. It is painful to revisit the same topics over and over, so they seek people like themselves, to discuss new things, built off of these earlier things.

Ever talk to an old person about a topic they believe they have hard earned wisdom about, but you already understood it was incorrect when you were 7 years old? It is sad and painful!

Highly intelligent people seek out other highly intelligent people, and have a hard time finding them. And sometimes, when they do, they are not who they were hoping for.

Aside from this, they are just as adept at socializing as anyone else. Chances are you are not sure when you meet someone who is super intelligent, because they are trying to keep it at a normal pace. They can blend in, without thinking about it. Others cannot, but then again, there are lots of introverts and people who have difficulty socializing anyway. I’m on the introverted side, and I admit, there may be additional issues searching through what to say. I have a lot to say that would not interest people who are closer to average, no matter how our personalities line up or compliment each other.

[Mattanaw was not the author of the Quora question. Only the answer.]



Matt Cavanaugh
Mattanaw I., formerly "Christopher Matthew Cavanaugh"

I am a retired executive, software architect, and consultant, with professional/academic experience in the fields of Moral Philosophy and Ethics, Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy, and more recently, Economics. I am a Pandisciplinarian, and Lifetime Member of the High Intelligence Community.

Articles on this site are eclectic, and draw from content prepared between 1980 and 2024. Topics touch on all of life's categories, and blend them with logical rationality and my own particular system of ethics. The common theme connecting all articles is moral philosophy, even if that is not immediately apparent. Any of my articles that touch on "the good and virtuous life" will be published here. These articles interrelate with my incipient theory of ethics, two decades in preparation. This Book and Journal is the gradual unfolding of that ethic, and my living autobiography, in a collection of individual books that fit into groups of book collections.

This Book and Journal is already one of the largest private websites and writings ever prepared, at nearly 1 million words, greater than 50,000 images and videos, and nearly one terabyte of space utilized. The entire software architecture is of my creation. Issues of the book for sale can be found under featured. These texts are handmade by myself, and are of excellent quality, and constitute the normal issues of my journal that can also be subscribed to. The entire work is a transparent work in progress. Not all is complete, and it will remain in an incomplete state until death.

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