I get so high on IQ tests that it is embarrassing (if I thought it was valid) that I haven't accomplished more.
If you know history people think you ‘sound smart’, but if you know just as many facts and can analyze and recite them just as well - but they are about baseball.....
People remember what they care about. Emotion helps retain short term memories - so if your attitude is “wow, this is REALLY COOL!” you will remember it for years - but if you think “Is this going to be on the test?” - you MIGHT remember it for the test.
I am not really that smart (Advanced Calculus is about my limit) but I am highly intellectually motivated. The result is high scores on tests. People shouldn't really take much more out of it than that - you take tests like an absolute GENIUS!
People remember what they care about. Emotion helps retain short term memories - so if your attitude is “wow, this is REALLY COOL!” you will remember it for years - but if you think “Is this going to be on the test?” - you MIGHT remember it for the test.
You're kinda channeling me with this. I've worked manual labor with many academic duds as coworkers. When it came to sports many showed quite good mental ability. They liked sports so it just 'came to them.'