You’d be surprised at how often intelligent people get annoyed, usually because of the normal things that everyone else seems to love.
Nobody can sit still
Everyone knows someone who always needs something on. Doesn’t matter whether it’s a show, a song, or something else, there’s no such thing as silence in their house. They kill it before it ever happens.
The thing is, high-IQ people hate people who can’t stand silence because, for them, quiet isn’t boring. It’s the time when they’re able to let their thoughts stretch out a bit and really process things. People who aren’t being quiet aren’t processing, simple as that.
Because someone said so
‘Those are the rules.’ That sentence is never enough for a high-IQ person, and it’s usually the fastest way to annoy them because they prefer rules to have a purpose. Safety, fairness, whatever, it doesn’t matter, as long as there’s a reason, a rule is okay.
Smart people hate random rules that don’t have a clear reason for existing. Why this form? Why that deadline? High-IQ people keep asking themselves, they can’t help it, they just can’t accept things as they are.
Everyone’s suddenly doing it
Some people say things like ‘everyone’s using this now’ and completely mean it, that’s where the trouble starts for smart people. It’s not that they hate the trend or anything, they might actually enjoy it, it’s just that they dislike people using popularity as proof.
Who cares that everyone else loves it? It doesn’t make the thing good, and it doesn’t make it right. Smart people would rather ask questions about where the trend came from, who decided it was good, stuff like that.
The quiet price tag
There are so many people who love the social appeal of getting the ‘right’ thing. You know, like the right logo on a piece of clothing, the right kind of restaurant, they love it all. Not high-IQ people, they’re never going to let the object do all the talking.
They know that price tags aren’t personality traits, nor will they ever be. They hate it when people act like labels somehow mean you’re better than everyone else around you, that’s not how things work.
A sticker on a person
Labels. People love sorting others into them really quickly, maybe too quickly, and that’s exactly what intelligent people hate. They don’t like using shortcuts to judge people because they understand that, actually, people are a lot more complicated than that.
They know that labels are probably going to lead to stereotypes, and that’s not usually a good thing. It’s better to avoid the labels completely and see people as they actually are instead.
Smiling through the meeting
There are those who really love office politics, there are those who really don’t. Smart people usually fall into the second group. That’s not to say there’s something wrong with enjoying office politics, you just won’t find intelligent people into it.
In fact, high-IQ people find the whole thing exhausting. They know that the official job and the real job are not the same thing, they don’t want their actual work to get buried under fake performance. It’s way too tiring for them.
Every hour got taken
A packed weekend, sounds perfect to some. They enjoy having brunch at eleven, shopping at one, birthday drinks at six, family thing Sunday, basically squeezing everything into every minute of every hour. They think having plans makes their life feel full.Â
A high-IQ person feels differently, just looking at that same weekend makes them feel exhausted. It’s not because they hate everyone, the issue is that they need some empty space to process things.
Someone famous had lunch
The thing with celebrity gossip is that it never really asks much from you, that’s why it’s so easy to enjoy. You’ve just got to sit and listen along to rumors about someone else, to stories about what they’ve apparently done.
A high-IQ person dislikes it for that exact reason. They might enjoy one funny story, sure, but they don’t enjoy it all the time, and they don’t see a purpose in knowing everything about everyone all the time.
Words filling the air
There’s a purpose to small talk. It softens awkward moments, it gets people through everyday situations, that’s perfectly okay. There’s nothing wrong with using small talk to keep things friendly and low-risk.
Unless you’re a high-IQ person, of course, because then you probably hate it when people are talking just to talk. You’ll probably hate going through the same loops on the same topics.
Just browsing for two hours
You’d be surprised how many people treat shopping like a tiny day out, mostly because they get to walk around and touch stuff, it’s low-pressure fun. For a high-IQ person, shopping without a purpose feels wasteful.Â
They keep asking themselves why they bothered in the first place. Surely there’s something better they could be doing than walking around in circles, again and again?Â
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