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The Problem With Being Over-Intelligent.

Jacob Ruhl
2 min readMay 26, 2020

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Yes, you heard that right there is indeed a problem with being over-intelligent. A stigma, most people who are intelligent are said to have mental health issues. What feels like a heart beating in your mind. It hurts as I go through the same exact thing myself. Thoughts swirling, sometimes it feels as thought their is a city the size of New York clashing our minds. Thump, thump, you even hear people having conversations about nearly everything you can think of. Including death. I hate thinking about death, I hate over thinking about almost everything unless it’s a hobby but thinking about death sucks.

So yes, being over-intelligent has it’s ups and it’s downs. But I’d rather go through the pain than to be dumb. I’m not saying I’m smart or dumb because

I frankly do not know. But this is for the people who don’t know and think people that are intelligent have everything figured out and think they have easy lives and got to success easily, that’s simply not the case at all.

Some intelligent people have a harder time being sucsessful in life because of over complicating it. Sometimes intelligent people fall down because of overthinking so, they do dumb things. I have done some pretty dumb things in my life, I thought I’m so dumb. But maybe I was just over complicating what

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Jacob Ruhl
Jacob Ruhl

Written by Jacob Ruhl

As a 23-year-old entrepreneur, I thrive on creativity and love exploring and sharing innovative ideas and unique interests with those around me.

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