here is a realization from a very much talented person :
" I have an IQ of 186 and this is my experience: geniuses are more likely to ask questions and to doubt their sense of feeling "right" about something. I constantly fact check myself, and when someone insists they're right and I'm wrong, I go seek evidence of reality of things.
People of average intelligence tend to be confident in their sense of knowing things while the intelligent people I have interacted with tend to be less confident in their sense of knowing things.
I think that's the best key indicator of someone's intelligence, in fact. The more a person insists they're right, the less intelligent I believe them to be. The more a person asks questions and seeks to understand if they're right and why, the more intelligent they are.
That being said, this is just my experience and perhaps there are average intelligent people out there that ask more questions and are curious about more things than I've run into. I don't think it hurts to keep an open mind and ask more questions regardless of intelligence scores, though."
