Don’t know how old you are, but you strike me as another one with a pretty respectable IQ. The main thing I’ve always noticed about the most intelligent people I’ve ever known is they always have a drive to learn, all the time, it never stops. It’s something that’s built in I think. People who are of above average intelligence just have to learn, no matter what else they do.
I was always known as a kid for being found doing one of two things. Reading or playing guitar. That’s all I ever did, that’s why I started reading college books at a young age, books for kids my age were so boring I couldn’t go there any more.
I found my uncle’s college textbook one day and started reading. He caught me, took it and asked what I was reading. I told him what that chapter was about, he nodded, gave it back and never said a thing if I read his textbook, which I did ever day. I kept at it my whole life, I’ 60 now and still pick up books and check out websites strictly for educational purposes. I’ll never stop doing that or playing guitar. The day I stop learning is the day I stop breathing.
Most of the more intelligent people I’ve ever known have been the same way. Always trying to learn more. It’s a drive they can’t stop, an eternal quest for knowledge. It never lets you go, you can’t stop it...many people don’t understand that. High school is over, yay I’m out of school. Done deal. I can’t stop, I’ll just wither up and die...I bet you’re close to the same...
Sheesh, it's after 1:30 AM here and I don't know if if can avoid shuffling off to the Land of Nod post haste.....
Leni
I come from a family of readers and I desperately yearned to read, when I was bitty. Once I learned how to read, there was no holding me back! I'd read anything and everything and my mother said that it was okay for me to read the books in the house...so I did, besides arm loads of library books. I was reading adult books ( Ruth Benedict's "PATTERN'S OF CULTURE", just before I was 9, because my mother had just read it and it looked interesting )at a young age, but also fairy tales and OLD children's books, which are far better written than the modern stuff.
Do I ever read what I call "popcorn for the brain"? Not as much as I used to, but yes, some. But mostly I read, and have been breading, for much of my adult life, what most might call "serious books"; non-fiction. Hey, if something is interesting to me, I'll read about it. :-)
You're right about "learning"! Yes, it's kind of a compulsion of mine, though not in a "bad" way.
Have you found, as I have, that once you get interested in a topic, it'll lead to other topics that one just HAS TO also learn about?
Once my college days were over, I sighed a sigh of relief, because n ow I could read whatever I wanted to and NOT what was assigned!