7 Genuine Signs of Intelligence You Can't Fake 

YES

Not really

Yep

Yes

no ):

Definitely. There are some other channels for mental health I cannot watch because of the voice. This channel is so soothing.

We're all gonna get tingles 😄

Lol couldn’t have said it better. I love her voice 💛

True

I have a crush on her and I don't even know how she looks and I don't care. Simply because of the voice.

Thanks 💙

Ty :)

I have none of these traits for instance, the closest thing I have to wit is blurting out relevant statements at surprisingly comedic times

Tysm

sarcasm is easy to fake, but the rest are not.

Tell me abt it. I faced it through and through. All of my issues bubbled up in grad school. And my phd was ravaged with mental disturbances and existential crises and what not. But what i am grateful for is that, I now understand who I am much clearly. And my love for science will never die.

Mhm, went through it and damn

exactly what I was thinking, I'm curious to know who they tested, mental illnesses/traumas' wise

very true. i used to be very curious being young, but if i asked about something to someone, they would scold me that i talk too much. this has affected my social life and my curiosity because im always scared that ill disappoint them or make them feel that im weird.

That’s exactly what I was thinking throughout this video. I felt that I could possibly relate more to some of these traits if it weren’t for my extremely low-levels of self esteem due to trauma I have faced. Interesting that you noticed that too

and in perfect mental health, apparently

@kialuvsyoo there's that too of course 🙄

Exactly what I was thinking too

Childhood traumas make it harder for the stong self identity; through healing the trauma, one undercovers the identity that has been there all along (screaming to be free!). It can take decades, as it did for me. I'm still in the healing & identifying my true self; journals help. This is just my experience, strength & hope.

Yes. I have BPD and highly struggle with self identity often

This is so sadly true. If you notice this in someone, small kind words of encouragement and reminders or pointing out things about them that makes them happy (their true self) will go so far. It's a lonely world and it's hard to hear but love is loud 💜

But the intelligence comes through in other ways, it's still there and it shows regardless of life circumstances. In fact, I have C-PTSD and it has been repeatedly frustrating that my intelligence is still noticeable at first glance and people immediately think I'm a well composed person that can cope with anything and don't need help.... it sucks (and I'm particularly referring to GP's and mental health professionals). I don't know what their prefabricated mental image of a broken person looks like, but I certainly don't fit in that picture, even though I'm totally broken. I had to therefore adapt the way in which I present myself to those professionals by focusing on the delivery of the message rather than the clarity of the message itself. Bunch of nitwits.

yes i agree!

Yes!

Well it's not like bad people can't be intelligent.

@@lypros892 yes they are but they use it for their own benefits over the loss of thousands.

This about being GOOD person, who also likes to learn, not being Smart per se.

I think part of the point is that the unintelligent are very unlikely to do these things.

@@vorpal22 I don't think that's the point of the video, although it's partially true. I think the point of the video is that faking these traits is very obvious, and my point is that you can nourish the traits.... although they might be unlikely to work on this, doesn't mean they can't, but maybe they won't or will think it doesn't work. But I've known the people that notice firsthand improvements and start slowly progressing towards unlocking this potential.. and it really is weird how it transforms some people. They start looking like a new human with a lot of authenticity... almost looking like a genius or a prodigy in their own craft, in their own way. But oh damn it takes discipline and of course, it only gets harder, not many endure.

@@thehumanpractice2985 Part 2: We work around this well because I find it very refreshing that I need to be completely open, honest, and direct with him about how I'm feeling: he needs to be explicitly told in a very straightforward way, as he is completely incapable to simply infer it. For example with regards to social boundaries, I was shocked to learn that he did not have the realization in the workplace that it is inappropriate to knock on someone's door and disturb them if they have someone else in their office and the door is closed, and I needed to tell him that unless it was an emergency, he should probably go back to his office and send them an email or other message to indicate to them that he needed to talk to them when they were available, or check back with them later. On the other hand, I am a severe introvert (not because I am shy or lack confidence... I just simply prefer to be alone most of the time and enjoy my own thoughts) and, if you couldn't tell from the fact that I able unable to be concise, have untreated ADHD, and I can understand and pick up on the feelings of others with relative ease, but frankly, at the risk of sounding cold, unless it is someone close to me or that I am involved with professionally, I tend not to care that much. It isn't my responsibility to make people I don't know well feel better, and while I do sometimes still do that, to do so consistently, I would find it very draining. There is also a huge cultural element to EQ and social cues: I've known some people that I would say are extremely intelligent who just "drop by" my house without calling or otherwise indicating that they will do so, and anyone who knows me and has a shred of EQ should be able to tell how uncomfortable that makes me, not to mention that I've generally made it clear on social media that they read. I had a friend who was I would consider to be highly intelligent who did this so often despite me asking her to call first that finally, it got to the point where one day when she came over unexpectedly, I deliberately took about two minutes to answer the door and then said to her, "Sorry for the delay, but I was in the middle of having sex." (It was a lie, but boy, did she feel uncomfortable, and that solved the problem.) I've also known some people who have incredible EQ, but are otherwise clearly not very intelligent. Another very close friend of mine that I've known for 30 years is the most sweet and empathic person I know, and can pick up on the feelings of others with ease and is incredibly supportive and caring, but no matter how hard she has tried (and she has tried hard), she struggles with very basic intellectual concepts. Personally, while I consider EQ to be an important trait in and of itself, I don't consider it to be a component of or indicator of intelligence, and frankly - in general - I find the points made in this video to be rather weak and vague and poorly explained or quantified and qualified. This desire we currently have to make everyone "feel good" and refine the definitions of words to be more inclusive is just silly. For example, I am shockingly physically uncoordinated to the point where I often accidentally end up mildly hurting myself, and I am terrible at most sports, but I don't need to be made to feel better about this: I simply accept it and move on, and likewise, I think it is important to differentiate between intelligence and empathy. Intelligence is not always an emotionally pleasant trait to have: it can make life very difficult at times (e.g. having to deal with feeling impostor syndrome, and also seeing Dunning-Kruger play out around you, which is a double whammy when you're intelligent, because not only do you realize how much you don't know, but you have to put up with people who are so blatantly uninformed thinking that they are experts in subjects where they are clearly idiots). I've watched a few videos here after a friend directed me to a depression video which made heavy use of characters of my favourite video game, OMORI, and I think they are generally poorly made and water down and muddy psychological concepts (and I am certainly not an expert in psychology). Intelligence has traditionally been considered the ability to learn (especially when it comes to math and language), analyze, and piece together existing knowledge in order to derive new information, and these are things that are tested on in most traditional indicators of intelligence, e.g. IQ tests, the SAT, the GRE, etc. (And yes, I understand the value of these are limited because there are cultural elements to them, but I don't think we need to measure and categorize people based on their intelligence.) One more example: renowned mathematician Paul Erdős seems to have had little EQ based on what I have read and heard about him, but he was undeniably brilliant and one of the people who has made the most contributions to mathematics. His ability to make connections between seemingly completely separate areas of math has seldom been historically paralleled, and the human race is very lucky to have had him as a member. 6. I have terrible insomnia and I do take power naps and prefer to space my sleeping out rather than sleep a long period overnight, and I think this does help with my mental agility. (Fortunately, I work from home and at a job where I am largely able to be independent, so with the exception of the occasional meeting, I can take a nap as needed almost any time.) I don't, however, think that power naps are any indicator of intelligence: they may be something that help people be more mentally agile and productive, but to draw any conclusion between power napping and intelligence is something I see as ridiculous and yet one of example of the reasons why I am being so critical of this channel. The fact that the TV show the Mentalist was brought up here - at least to me - supports my notion that this channel is just watered down pop-psychology made accessible but not in an appropriately rigorous fashion to actually teach much that is factual. Erdős took amphetamines regularly so he could be higher functioning, and almost certainly did not power nap. As the famous story is told from Wikipedia: '[Colleague] Ron Graham bet him $500 that he could not stop taking [amphetamines] for a month. Erdős won the bet, but complained that it impacted his performance: "You've showed me I'm not an addict. But I didn't get any work done. I'd get up in the morning and stare at a blank piece of paper. I'd have no ideas, just like an ordinary person. You've set mathematics back a month."' A little narcissistic, but probably true. (Incidentally, he lived to be 83, so clearly amphetamines did not have a significant deleterious effect on his health. That being said, I nor almost anyone else would suggest that people start taking amphetamines to be able to better access their intelligence, although it probably actually would help. The reward probably doesn't outweigh the risk.) 7. No argument with high creativity levels. They are certainly linked with intelligence. tl;dr: I just think that it is important to differentiate between different skills, like intelligence, empathy, and physical prowess, and this channel seems like watered-down pop-psychology to me masquerading as being informative. There are much better RU-vid channels if you are genuinely interested in psychology, kind of like how Numberphile explains recreational and formal math in a way that is accessible to most people without watering it down, and how Vsauce explains many intellectual concepts similarly.

With the exceptions of a few edge cases, most people are intelligent to accomplished most realistic goals in life with reasonable effort, time and constructive feedback.

The world without intelligence would be as empty as the one without empathy.

​@@gmryabets you do not miss what you were never aware of. So it wouldnt be empty, you just, wouldnt be aware of the lack of both if it never existed.

me too... this whole test, exams, quizzes thing is so dumb and it gives false value to the student and the student's parents :(

A lot of progress is being made here, but there’s still a long way to go

Actually, modern IQ tests have become a lot more reliable than they used to be. (Stephen Hawking was not a psychometrician.)

I do not exactly disagree with your assertion!!

@@tuele4302 Maybe, but IQ tests only measure one _kind_ of intelligence: logical/mathematical intelligence.

You sound like professor Jordan Peterson, just saying:)))

Well put👌🏻

@@nietzschesmuse Brian Greene

@@HannahMarieee Nice channel :)

@@GetYourLifeBetter thank you☺️

Do you know what projection is? Any label someone puts on you in a situation of disagreement is self-referential. Even the craziest ones, like a woman calling a man a misogynist. So if they called you a fool, it is still possible that you are, but so are they

People who act smart arent usually very smart it’s simply an act. Don’t let others perceptions of you bleed into your perception of yourself.

@@yungbruhmane8751 ah finally someone use the word perception

What a stupid thing to say.

Good quote- ima write that in my quote book in notes lmao 😂

"society that values all the wrong things" - and here you failed the open mindedness and sensitivity part. Welcome to the "unintelligent" club, we have cookies :)

@@kabo2246 what are you even saying? What they’re saying is true. Society puts so much value on beauty, the amount of followers you have, etc. Obviously this isn’t true in every case but there’s no doubt that some of these factors dominate society.. also the fact that people feel like they need to “fit in” and be like everyone else in order to be accepted.. just the mindset in general of society is messed up.. but that’s life, all you can do is continue to grow and try to work around it

@@relevant207 It’s not wrong to value beauty and popularity. It can lead to a dangerously obsessive pursuit, perhaps, but it’s not wrong. Fitting in is not taught either. It’s a human desire to want belonging from other people. In fact, it’s normal that you want to fit in than hoping you don’t. It’s not “messed up” for a society to want acceptance.

yees

That would be my life, I like being wrong more than being right so I can always learn more^•^ For the second part, a example for me is in math, I always will find a different way that is not the way I am taught. But it also can lead to not showing work from my internal whiteboard that stores things.

True!

No, there is a correlation with the very talented and emotional instability.

"Realism" is the term for having the right Balance of optimism and pessimesm, you know that things can go good or bad and you look at thibgs logically. Pessimesm is the term you are looking for i believe.

Expect the worst, hope for the best is my mindset.

Yeah I’m normally a realist that occasionally flips to optimistic or pessimistic and when I’m optimistic things always go wrong.

Truth!

@@wooblydooblygod3857 👍yeah

Except 5th and 6th point everything

Thank you so much!

Everything except power naps lol, I can't just sleep whenever I want to, basically can't really take short naps. If I'm sleeping, it's gonna be at night lmao. 🤷

Thanks ❤

@@namjesus3789 samee

Ew

@@Fucklifedeadshit ?

@@BlueDragon7100 Everyone who talks incessantly about their mental illness needs to exercise, eat better, get a job and stop using their “anxiety” as an identity. That was the implied meaning of my ew.

@@Fucklifedeadshit okay, and while your entitled to that opinion, I do wonder who you're talking about? I was just curious about how these illnesses, that do exist, affect these signs. I don't want this comment to at all be about how people with those illnesses live their life. If you're not interested in learning, which is what I'm trying to do, I'm not sure why you'd be on this video in the first place. All that said, excuse me while I continue trying to be supportive and learn about signs that can be used to help people. You do you tho stranger on the internet shitting on people who need psych help. On a psych RU-vid channel. It's your time to waste.

@@BlueDragon7100 And while you continue to blame magical illnesses and look for bandaids, I’ll finish this workout, go outside and interact with society, eat a healthy meal and then head off to work to support myself. I offered you the solutions to your problems, but you want some girl with an over modulated microphone to calmly tell you that everything is okay and none of it is your fault.

dont let that discouraged you bro

Intelligence is not predetermined!

Everyone can be intelligent in their own way

Doesn’t matter. The mind constantly evolves. Whatever is your interest, go for it.

We all have the capacity, all it comes down to is a constructive mindset in life which anyone can build in themselves

Ty!

Intelligent people learn to curb the urge to be sarcastic. Sarcasm can be hurtful. Moreover, it can be damaging.

@@Psych2go simp pushing children :) hows that wit and sarcasm for you ?

That's before some parents knowingly or unknowingly stomp on their self-identify to conform to their beliefs of how they want their children to be. Some parents don't support their children's creativity and stunts their growth. Some parents don't acknowledge their children, at all.

Interesting! Why do you think that is?

Don't forget the wit... my cousin, is absolutely demolishing that game. And every single child has some way to properly roast you, regardless of what you say:)

Children do have that. My little sister (7) has way more emotional intelligence in her age than I did. I had intelligence but that was in reading, speaking and understanding mathematics, science etc. I developed my emotional intelligence way later. My little sister is more emotionally intelligent and perceptive. Her humor and sarcasm is always on point. The only thing she struggles with is focus. She can't sit still for one minute, don't wait until others finish their sentences and quickly gets bored. I think she might have ADHD but parents think ADHD is bullshit 😑

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that happens quite often i think

EQ and IQ definitely can be drastically different!

Much appreciated!

Really good points to ponder!

Thats right.

Thank you for sharing this!

i dont think so. I think intelligent people identify their traumas and fix them. I dont think intelligent people victimize them self and excuse bad behavior because of traumas, which is what most of the people do.

thats simping and childish you cant help the community you can only help individuals

Nope not just you... join the club

Naps do nothing for me no matter the length but make me feel terrible. Like I binge drank or something. I've even mentioned it to my doctor I thought it was so odd. And like most doctors, he just shrugged and handed me a bill.

Exactly the same for me!

Não és o único sou assim de criança:)

Actually, me too 😅

We need to remind our politicians and media about this quote. For progression to happen, change must start. Intelligent people want growth (change).

Yes!

good job! i'm proud of you :D

Yesss good job! :]

Being sarcastic and witty Me: wow i must be einstein

@@hermionegranger2930 Or you must be Hermione Granger

@@NM-xj6om but i am Hermione Granger

Thank you! Glad you found it! Do you have a video you would like to suggest us to do next?

Yo hacks?

@@Psych2go I know the recommendation wasn’t directed to me but I’d like to know more about self sabotaging behaviors (if not already covered)

Why not. Signs of insanity

3w ago god damn

Or maybe what we valued as intelligence changed. We live in an era that had never existed before a digital, globalization world. There are just more ways to demonstrate intelligence.

@@MartinVW1992 that's true! i wish all intelligence was valued equally though

@@fluxinspired no that's not possible All types of intelligences,which is a myth btw. Can't be equally treated because EQ doesn't make a scientist,an artist, a philosopher,a creater. It just makes you an empath which can't be valued over a revolutionary equation

Do you think intelligence is objective or subjective?

@@Psych2go subjective, there's no one set way of being intelligent in my opinion

me too! hey btw, i recently started my own channel if u wanna check it out, i talk a lot about well-being and self growth there

Let me guess, your parents made you chase perfection instead of focusing on yourself?

@@curtismcpsycho8212 Yes, at the same time as constantly telling me I'm too stupid to ever achieve anything, funnily enough

@@joban4963 kinda the same thing here, my mom wanted C's to A's and we had a lot of family problems and my dad was too much of a douchebag to care and he was the source for atleast half of my family's problems.

Also high IQ, also failed school (passing grades though). No negative influence from parents, just an inability to do stupid, poorly defined shit work for hours to prove I understand something which I understood immediately. Things were just too slow and boring for me to care.

Self praise is not usually a good joke.

@@Tidbit0123 I have a sarcastic sense of humour

@@bear8778 I don’t I’m actually really stupid in the sense that I have zero common sense and that I fail to basic tasks I don’t actually think I’m smarter than most people because you can’t base it off one test score. I say that to mock people who do think that because they have a high iq it makes them some kind of genius

totally agree! hey btw, i recently started my own channel if u wanna check it out, i talk a lot about well-being, self growth and nutrition there

i agree! hey btw natasha, i recently started my own channel if u wanna check it out, i talk a lot about well-being and self growth there☺️

Glad it was helpful!

I'm pretty convinced that your last example is just a flaw of the way we get taught such topics in . I too got pretty bad scores whenever I had to analyze novels, for the same reason you did. I've taken different IQ tests throughout my youth and early 20's but I see them merely as a score for how well you can notice mathematical patterns. I still don't see a point to the tests. I can see why such an ability was necesssary back when computers weren't a thing, and we had to strategize well during war times. Even gathering intel and cracking the enemies encryptions of secret messages. Idk how important such a test is anymore, sure there might still be some advantage in the military section, but even if you had an average score, I'm sure you'd fare well, seeing you can think for yourself.

yes, i've experienced this too.......

I bet you'll score 120+

holy f@ck, i got a heart attack

@@W00JDA ?

Totally agree! hey erina, i recently started my own channel where i also talk a lot about mental well-being and self growth, if you wanna check it out☺️

@@HannahMarieee Hi! I checked it out and your vids are wonderful and aesthetic ❤️ You also have a relaxing voice so it's good to listen to. More power to your channel ☺️

@@erinachi6171 oh thank you so much erina, I’m very happy to hear that🥰

oh i feel the saame! hey btw, i recently started my own channel if u wanna check it out, i talk a lot about well-being, self growth and nutrition there

theres actually 9 types of intelligence

@@kyawoue you think so? To me it seems like pop science to increase the number, like the premise of a buzzfeed quiz. “Which of the 23 types of intelligence are you if you were a Disney Princess?” Or something to this effect LMAO. The evolutionary application of intelligence is simply an accessory to autonomic functions, cognisance exists exclusively in the presence of planning and problem solving, or in other words, if you have met all of your needs, there is a tendency to not plan or problem solve. Intelligence resolves problems encountered in the environment when autonomic processes cannot resolve them. It can be argued that there is only one kind of intelligence, the one that permits novel adaptation to changing or unfamiliar conditions. There are animals who encounter chronic exposure to unusual stressors, whose mesolimbic and immediate monoamine pathways incessantly invoke fear treating their fornix like a slippery dip and Mike Tysoning their ventral amygdala like a punching bag, so the outermost layers of their cerebrum allocate additional metabolic resources, anchoring mesocortical pathways where monoamines don’t suffice the workload and amino acids reign, and ironically, back home to the ancient hypothalamus, where the most complex messages permit the most novel of behaviour in the expressions of neuropeptides. It asks “did you solve the problem?” And punishes the animal for encountering it, and the animals peers punish it for solving it, but they like the easier path to homeostasis so they compensate and mimic the inventors behaviours. Imagine if our intelligence and all we are is the culmination of an extant war between nervous tissue and glandular epithelium. LMAO.

@@Lily-yf2rx can you make it easier to understand? english is not my first language sorry

@@kyawoue Sorry, basically what I was saying was that the main reason why intelligence exists is because it helps animals deal with problems that are new to them. When we learn something and master the skill, it becomes second nature, like for example, driving, riding a bike, reading a book, etc. these things become so easy and familiar to us. The main function of intelligence is to effectively deal with an obstacle that we don’t yet have the skills to deal with. It’s the ability to adapt. Social animals have a lot of obstacles that they must navigate, and so they tend to be the more intelligent ones with a wide array of skills. In psychology, there’s this tendency to make things more complex than necessary, like for example, by adding more kinds of intelligence. If a theory is to last longer than a few decades, it must be simplified and observable regardless of era. I think a better way of looking at it, is that there is only one kind of intelligence, but there are many kinds of social animals living in many kinds of places. So it’s not that people have different intelligences, but rather that the cognitions associated with intelligence encounters many different kinds of people.

@@Lily-yf2rx okay thankss

me too!

Does that apply to the point at 0:10 ?

@@TheMathias95 hahaha

right they should! hey btw, i recently started my own channel if u wanna check it out, i talk a lot about well-being and self growth there

Hi! Just wanted to say it gets better. It will never seem like it though of course. As everyDay may seem more difficult and over bearing. But I just want to tell you it really does get better. I will pray for you and I truly hope you have a good support system but that you also support and care for yourself too. That there are plenty of things through your days that will make you smile and bring you joy. Even when it’s almost seemingly impossible to in this state. God loves you as you are and I truly hope you have a blessed day💖

@@anyone1111 Ty so much 💓 💗 💖 feels good to hear/read kind words from time to time 😀

@@TheHermit72 Yayyy I’m so happy that this made you feel a lil better! I enjoy seeing kind comments too so I love being kind to others and hopefully making them feel happier, even if it’s just a little bit. I hope you have a lovely, blessed day🥰

I think being witty and being insecure doesn't really need to cancel each other out. Sure, there are a lot of different people, but I'm sure even nervous and insecure people could have some people around them, where they are confident enough to show their wit (or maybe they have their own conversations in their head?). :) I have diagnosed autism (never did a real IQ test, but some sort of testing where doctors said they think I could be above 140-150IQ) and I'm normally reeeeaaallyyyyy weird and insecure around people, ending in me usually being really quiet, sometimes not saying a word the whole day/evening (or a lot of stuttering and stumbling over words). I'm like this even with friends I know for years (it ended in panic attacks too) and know I could talk the dumbest shit I can imagine without it getting weird, but I just can't get over this problem. But sometimes there are moments with a few of them (and I mean like max 3-5 people, even tho a lot more are really lovely), where I just say/answer/blurt something and realize that was actually quite witty without thinking (and I have a lot of conversations in my head, where I think it would be funny but don't say it aloud). I wouldn't say I'm the funny type, but I heard from people they think I'm funny/witty. Can't wrap my head around it, but I guess I come off as it? So yeah.. I don't think being both is a contradiction, they maybe just don't show what's actually going on in their head.

@@izal4625I agree with you. But I wasn't saying that someone is either witty OR insecure. I was saying that insecurity, nervousness, or social anxiety can exist along with high intelligence. This video assigns traits to "having high intelligence" that seem more like attributes of having "high self esteem AND intelligence.

You can't judge someone by one question they asked

@@N____er yep,you’re right!

Thank you!

This is also a boon, because I’m actually discovering positive things about myself after years of negative feedback 😻😻😻

@@atlasbot_ ratio

@@atlasbot_ ratio

Yes you can be too open to all influences. At some point you have to prioritise what Yr attention is on ie which books you read what shows and films you watch because a single person only has so much time and energy

Jordan 🇯🇴Peterson mentions this that this can be a problem for creatively inclines people

@@citizensnid3490 That is true - but the intelligent person knows what they do NOT read or prioritise.. Intelligence is the ability to read between the lines, read the room, the society, opinions, motives etc..