Geniuses are permissible little quirks and oddities. For example, Johann Goethe was able to operate only in closed on all sides stuffy rooms, which does not pass oxygen; Schiller wrote, keeping your feet in a basin of cold water. Composer Sarti worked exclusively in the empty dark room, and Albert Camus, when took away his second wife from the hospital, there have forgotten their newborn twins. But no one probably will dispute that they were all incredibly smart people.
Scientists have wondered exactly what the qualities of people with high IQ. Their findings were quite curious.
1. Problems with mental health.Unfortunately, often a tendency to mental disorder is a board for high intelligence. This conclusion was British psychologists led by Daniel Smith of the University of Glasgow. Scientists have for many years observed the group of 2,000 subjects aged 8 to 23 years. Psychologists have found that the higher the child's intelligence in the child, the greater the susceptibility to the development of bipolar disorder in the future. Of course a high IQ - it is just one of the risk factors. At the same time a much greater influence on mental health have stress, difficult childhood, heredity, or the use of psychotropic drugs.
2. Increased anxiety. It was also found a relationship between high intelligence and increased anxiety and irritability of the nervous system. That is the conclusion of US study results evolutionary neuroscientists led by Jeremy Coplan. Scientists attribute this to the fact that in the course of human evolution, in order to survive, it was necessary to use your intelligence and always be on guard.
3. The high level of trust in the world. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the smart people demonstrate a high level of basic trust to others. Scientists attribute this to the fact that people with higher intelligence sees the other through and immediately realizes on a subconscious level, who can be dangerous for him. Therefore, all the rest is inclined to treat with confidence. In addition, during the poll conducted in the US revealed that confidence in the others there is a nice bonus. Such people feel happier and have better health.
4. Liberal views and adoption of new ideas. People with high intelligence can themselves generate new ideas, and graciously accept strangers. Scientists say that the lack of broad-minded and stereotypes were necessary for the evolution of humanity and development. In addition, studies have shown an evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics and political science, smart people tend to be characterized by liberal views and the absence of religious fanaticism.
Among the respondents psychologist 95% of young people who identify themselves as conservatives, we had an average IQ of 95, while those who called themselves very liberal, had IQ score 106 or more.
5. Nocturnal. In addition, Kanazawa tracked the connection between sleep and intelligence. So people who characterized themselves as "owls", as a rule, have a higher level of intelligence than the "early birds".
Scientists conducted an experiment, which was attended by more than 20 thousand. American teenagers. Those with low IQ was on average went to bed at 11:41 and got up at 7:20. Adolescents with high IQ went later - at 12:29, and woke up later - at 7:52 am. On weekends, the difference in time between the two groups was even more evident.
6. Love of solitude.Smart people are self-sufficient and thrive by himself, but in order to be happy they did not want company. Satoshi Kanazawa traced in his works feedback: the wider a person with a high IQ social circle, the lower satisfaction with life in general.
7. Low physical activity.People with high intelligence are less mobile, are prone to laziness and, as a rule, do not feel the need for physical activity. That is the conclusion drawn by researchers from the University of Florida. They also say that people who do not need physical activity, usually have better memory and more likely to take the right decisions. On the contrary, those who have the need for intensified action, as a rule, do not have new knowledge requirements.
And be sure to ask, what scientists have found, are wondering why we have forgotten why they came to another room.
