"IQ" as a concept is much more hardwired. Your overall capacity for certain things like pattern recognition if you were a truly stupid individual would always be diminished and you'd always have to work harder, however it is still possible to overcome one's own limitations through hard work, at times in a way that "smarter" individuals will not namely because they are lazier. It reminds me, loosely, of Napoleon complex guys achieving much while the handsome jock may while away his time getting laid and being debauched and thus fail later in life, or the tortoise and the hare, or the story of Mike Tyson. You see Tyson got bullied a lot as a kid and his chief motivation for becoming a fighter and the first fight he got in was because some kid ripped off his pet pigeon's head. Now he's world heavy weight champion and can afford to keep as many pigeons as he fucking wants and be left in peace.

There is a degree to which one can always compensate for their deficits, and often times people will end up vastly overcompensating for them. The overwhelming underriding drive here is "I'm still not good enough." So basically while someone else might be doing stupid shit like getting high and playing videogames while engaging in pointless navel gazing with their high school buddies, if you maintain that internalized drive to better yourself it's possible the allegedly IQ120 kid is just going to atrophy into mediocrity at best, whereas you otoh will have bettered yourself into being a well read and perhaps scholarly man. The difference is just that you'll have way more difficulty in that area, chiefly of overcoming your own frustrations and converting that anger into Drive.

It's like having weak as shit genes for strength in a sense. You might have a predisposition to becoming fat, or of never building muscle tone, and maybe you will never aspire to the same heights as those born athletes, but nothing is stopping that athlete from leading a sedentary existence eating pastries and burgers and just turning into a disgusting fatass whereas the person who maybe needs to out three times the effort into it can still get super strong and become cultured. Nature is only part of the struggle. A critical part, but still only a part. So if you spend all your time reading, doing puzzles, and trying to learn a new language or three, you're still going to end up being "smarter" or far more intellectual than someone who otherwise might be smarter than you.

A key thing is obviously not wasting your time on trash like k*hl or the internet in general for the matter especially Twitter, or dumb YT videos or celebrities or whatnot. Read literature. Watch good documentaries. Understand the basics of concepts and work your way up to more advanced concepts. Read wikipedia articles for fun.

It's like everything else. Shitty IBs are the mental equivalent of junk food. If you consume nothing but trash you'll feel like trash and operate like trash. It requires the discipline that I frankly lack and has dragged me deeply down into the mud to abstain from the immediate gratification and focus on the less pleasurable task at hand for a plausible future reward. You can still better yourself physically for example by working out but if you do nothing but consume twinkies and fried chicken and coca cola all day then you're just working against yourself.

Find something like the mental equivalent of low weights before working up. Force yourself off the slob couch of imageboards and go to something familiar enough like wikipedia. Just keep clicking random links and reading about random things. Work your way up to the citations and references section of the article. Get to the point where you can take books out of the library. Learn more in depth about some chosen topic and try forcing yourself to stick with it. Don't move on until you feel a bit of mastery, and when you do, make sure to find something that challenges that sense of mastery (as iirc brick said in another thread, or maybe the american I forget re: dunning effect etc.)

Try taking up math. Start with the simpler concepts. You wouldnt expect to start benching 350 lbs so dont get discouraged and frustrated when you can't make sense of advanced algebra or speak German fluently or whatever. Learn to avoid junk food like the plague online. I have not been doing this and I feel massively dumber and just trashier and unhealthier as a result. EC at least has been helping to wean me off that and provided a refreshing sense of my own stupidity.

A key detail is if the people around you are making you feel stupid, you're in the right place. I still remember my first weeks of college where I went from feeling like some kind of intellectual in my high school to feeling dumb as a brick of shit my first semester. I felt completely untalented and stupid. Maybe it's still true in a sense, but it forced me most importantly to have more discipline and to sharpen my mind a bit, rather than the fatal poison of self satisfaction. Never let yourself feel self satisfied in anything, Ernst. If you want one thing of your enemies, it should be for them to feel that for extended amounts of time. Let others make you feel dumb or weak and try to catch up with them, challenge yourself, learn real satisfaction from the surmounting of great personal challenges, and be humble enough to start small and disciplined enough on the follow through.

If you already feel dumb you're on the right path. Just don't beat yourself up, beyond the way you'd beat pig iron into a fine sword.

>>42519
>>42522
You're bitching about all this while bumping a lone k*hl thread for whatever reason. Maybe the problem isn't the thread, but you my friend. Have you considered trying to engage in any of the other threads going back 25 pages instead of a cabbage tier shitposting thread?

As for the board itself it's a good way to start weaning yourself off internet addiction. I am perpetually embarrassed at how severely I have wasted my life on the dumb shithole that was KC. Anything after like 2014 was complete garbage yet I stuck around for years because you can hit refresh. If you want to see what that garbage leads us you can check out wherever the cabbagetard pedo network moved these days or 4kanker. I'm sure either will be brilliantly edifying and not filled with sick fucks and sad retards.

If anything it has shown me how pathetic IBs not are, not become, but always were. I wasted the better part of my youth on this trash and pity anyone who wasnt at least dating girls or going out to bars like I was, or building careers. I'd imagine anyone who didn't even have that would be fertile grounds for implanting any moronic ideology whatsoever provided it made them feel good or a pretend sense of belonging that's totally fake and based on flimsy pretenses while feeding them nonstop misinformation, hate, and envy.

What's sad about this is the entire internet is on a level of trash right now I don't have words to describe it. I'm waiting for the West to largely implode of it's own stupidity and triviality. YouTube is nonstop garbage holy fuck. I mean the stupidest shit imaginable shows up in my recommended time after time I don't even know how it gets there like "Noah's ark found" how does shit that dumb end up on my feed after watching animal videos, plague documentaries, and video game reviews. I can't even find many really great docs and even the ones on there are often those tainted loud American XXXTReme ones.

What I do regret is not having found a better safe haven because the masses of these morons, these ideological zombies, will overrun here someday and I do not know of any other site filled with like students and people who have their Masters or scientists and stuff like that. It has begun filling me with a bottomless loathing for the commoner that matches only my loathing for the dumbass elites we have telling people to go out and get sick for Mammon and drink bleach. The average person is clearly incapable of doing anything but utterly destroying any forum or imageboard and likely the only ones that haven't been or won't get ruined I won't ever know about, for it if I do, it is likely the retards would find out and flock to it soon after.

Maybe I should lurk forums for aircraft controllers and pilots or something.

>>41968
>>41967
I think hard about what both of you wrote. I don't quite get it, I'm sorry.

>How did university go for you socially?

Not at all, mostly. Pic related is what I never had. Sometimes, someone took pity on me and allowed me to tag along. I walked through the park on my way to uni, and as soon as it was 15°C, it was full of topless dudes playing frisbe or volleyball. I walked by, trying to not look left or right and at least keep an upright posture. I never was able to throw or catch. I was miserably bad at billiards and darts.

I knew a Serbian girl in uni, she used me as a live teddy bear. She always told me about other dudes. One time, she told me

>I really like X. He told me how he fucks another girl every week. He goes to $club, and he stays until they close. Then, he blocks a hot girls way so she has to talk to him, and then he has sex with her. He's so ***honest***

another time, she told me

>I dreamt I slept with X. I had an orgasm in my sleep. When I woke up, my panties were all wet.

One time, she undressed in my pressence. Then, she turned around and said

>Oh, I forgot you are men.

(leaving out the article, slav-style.)
How was that supposed to make me feel? Did she torture me out of stupidity or just for the fun of it?
One night, we went out together, we had fun, etc. Our friendship ended when one night, she slept at my place and I took up all my courage and pressed her hand against my cheek. She just said 'let's sleep'. Things never were the same.

I had a gf once, after I got a job and a flat. I though maybe I wasn't such a loser after all, so I tried. All was well in the beginning. Then she expected me to get a better job that paid more and a better flat, and she expected me to work wonders. Like, she looked over my shoulder when I worked from home on a Sunday and basically expected that I would create market-ready software all alone, in one afternoon. No joke. The precondition to our relationship was that I was superman.
She constantly told me about her first boyfriend, how great he was, how good it was that they were still friends, and how awesome their recent trip together to a European capital had been. I read between the lines that he had cheated on her, and more than once, then dumped her. She told me how much money he made in his side-business breeding fish and so on. I tolerated all of that, I tried to be patient, understanding, I listened to her. Then she dumped me. I wasn't good enough for her. Now, she won't even let me talk to her.

What am I supposed to think? I'm not good enough and never will be. If she expected me to be able to improve enough, she wouldn't have cut off all contact. She decided I'm shit and always will be, and she's probably right. It was years ago and still, she won't talk to me. I wish I could do time travel and visit myself at 3 years of age. I'd beat the living shit out of myself and force myself to improve. To do great at school, to become the best at everything, and to win, win, win and never lose. I'd beat myself within inches of my live for ever losing. God, would I beat the little shit. I'd knock all his teeth out.