I must be blessed with very high IQ because Mechanical engineers are known to be at the high end for IQ. My bachelor’s degree was from India, and masters degree from University of Iowa. In my jobs as a mechanical engineer, I was able to develop expert software to train the brainless but fanastic memory creature known as digital computer to design the machines we built. Those machines are used by auto, appliance & aircraft builders to manufacture large parts such as car bodies, car doors, wheel axels etc. The aoftware designed the entire machine in a few seconds which required many weeks with manual design procedures. After having done the design part, I branched into developing expert software for numerically controlled lathes, drills, flame cutting machines etc. This was all done by me without any guidance on what to do. My company soon drove our both major competitors out of business. It had to be high IQ I was blessed with.
Indeed you must! My Dad was a brilliant scientist with a PhD in chemical engineering, (also nuclear physics) and he made our world a better, safer place. He was down-to-earth and humble (in the positive Christian sense) and had more respect for competent technicians and janitors with accumulated wisdom than dilettantes smartypants with fancy degrees. Of course he also had great respect for his fellow scientists who were Real Scientists dedicated to the honest pursuit of science.
His IQ was way, way up there, but he was incredibly disciplined and hard working and did not skate by on innate intelligence alone. As I said, he was humble in the good sense of that word, so it was from his once-upon-a-time fellow grad students that I learned he could do advanced calculus in his head. They said it got their goats that, as a poor grad student, he could hock his slide rule and still get perfect scores on exams. I knew he had won scientific awards and medals, but did not know of them all until after he died. He kept them in a dresser drawer. I was was overcome when I went through it and saw how many. Perhaps I still don’t know all and never will.
Nope, I did not inherit his scientific brilliance. I guess I must have “regressed toward the mean”. :) — or maybe that should be :(
In addition to being blessed with a high IQ, you were likely encouraged to creatively develop strategies to overcome obstacles and achieve goals in your childhood. Just a guess on my part, but that’s what it looks like to me.
A high IQ and ***tons*** of hard work!