So if you have a high IQ, your cognitive

ability is better. If your cognitive

ability is better, you are able to

perform more calculations. If you can

perform more calculations, you can

develop a stronger predictive model of

the future. And as your ability to make

robust models for the future increases,

your anxiety increases directly in

proportion to that. There were a lot of

people who when you were kids, we were

classified as gifted and all this. You

know what? You're autistic.

>> I'm sorry. I don't mean to laugh, but

>> No, it's true, right? So, I I took the

test and because I've always thought,

why do I act this way? And but then you

flip it and it was also your superpower.

That's why you could stand on stage and

make up these worlds and do these

things.

>> Giftedness versus special. Which are

you? So, I have an interesting question

for y'all that I asked myself some time

ago. Why is it that everyone isn't a

genius? Why is the average IQ of human

beings not 200? Why do you all think

that is, right? So, sure, it's relative.

But why is the average IQ like 100

instead of 200? High IQ is also a

liability. I gave a kidney transplant.

Now, I've only got one kidney left. Why

don't I have three kidneys? Why don't I

have two hearts? Why don't I have three

eyes? Why do I have two eyes? Why not

just one eye? Why not one ocular organ?

I have one nose. Why two eyes? One

mouth, two ears. Why? So it it is a

metric. Y'all are right. So you could

average it. IQ is a scaled score. So

fair enough. Why is there computational

power where it is instead of being way

high higher? And people say evolution.

That's correct. But evolution selected

for this level of IQ. Not a little bit

more, not a little bit less. This is the

average, right? And maybe there's a

neuronal gap. Like maybe there's a

certain there's like a there's a

hardware issue, right? We've only got so

much RAM in the brain. There's only so

much computation we can do. But for

those of y'all who are saying there's a

cost that is exactly right. So we see

this with gifted kids. Gifted kids don't

necessarily perform better. We see also

see this with autistic savants where we

know that in the autistic brain some of

these people are capable of incredible

things. But that capability comes at a

terrible cost. And so I don't know if

you guys know this, but this is now old

news. So now I can't believe it's 20

years ago. In 2007 and 2008, there was

something called the subprime mortgage

crisis where basically what happened

there like economy crashed. Okay? And

basically the reason it crashed is

because people were doing something

really interesting. They were giving out

loans to people who could not afford

them. Then what they were doing is

packaging all of those loans and selling

them to somebody else. I am gonna loan

you a hundred bucks. Chance that you'll

default is 10%. And I'm gonna do that a

hundred times. And so some of these

loans are going to go bad. I'm going to

lose a lot of money. But then I'm going

to package them all up and I'm going to

sell them to somebody else. And then

with the money that I get from that

sale, I'm going to go out and do it to

another hundred people cuz now I've got

all this money right in my bank. So I

can be like, "Okay, now I'm going to

give it to you." So people were doing

this. There were some shenanigans going

on. Basically was creating a huge risk

of default. And there was a guy who was

a radiologist who got into finance, who

is on the spectrum. I I don't know if in

the movie he's is central, I don't know,

but there were books written about this.

And he's basically the one who figured

it out. So the rest of the world was

like, "Oh my god, this is the way to

make money. This is the way to make

money. This is the way to make money."

This guy was like, "Hold on a second.

This is there's something shady going

on." And he basically figured it out. So

he's on the spectrum. And we'll see this

time and again. I'm not sure exactly who

this person was, but you know, in the

clip, someone who's incredibly gifted

happens to be autistic. There's severe

autism as well, where like there's no

positive trade-off. People who are

non-verbal, people who engage in

self-injurious behavior. There's some

versions of being on the spectrum that

don't confer any advantage in my mind.

Like, I haven't seen I've seen cases

like this. Many of the patients that

I've worked with will have some

advantages, but on balance, it's like

doesn't make their life easier. You

know, what you get when you trade the

autism for the savant is not worth it

because it causes so many problems in

relationships and things like that. But

the main thing to understand is that

intelligence comes at a cost. So for

example, if we look at this paper over

here, this is really fascinating. So

high intelligence a risk factor for

psychological and physiological

overexitabilities implicates high IQ as

being a a potential risk factor for

affective disorders ADHD ASD and for

increased incidence of disease related

to immune dysregulation. So it's really

fascinating but I want to explain to you

all how this works. So if you have a

high IQ your cognitive ability is

better. If your cognitive ability is

better you are able to perform more

calculations. If you can perform more

calculations, you can develop a stronger

predictive model of the future. And as

your ability to make robust models for

the future increases, your anxiety

increases directly in proportion to

that. So people with high IQ have higher

anxiety because when they go into a

situation, they are able to see all of

the things that could go wrong. And if

we think about what is anxiety, anxiety

is looking into the future and being

able to predict problems. I'm worried

that I could fail the test. I'm worried

that I could get stuck in traffic on the

way home. Anxiety is literally the

ability to predict problems. There's a

problem though with anxiety in

giftedness, which is that normally the

way that the number of problems that we

want to predict needs to be in

proportion with our ability to do

something about it. Right? Why do we get

anxious? So we can predict a problem and

do something. Oh my goodness, I could

fail my test. Oh to avoid that, let me

study. Right? So prediction of problem

implementation of solution one to one.

And at 100 IQ, the problems that most

human beings predict are solvable. But

IQ has a big problem, which is that if

I'm capable, if I only have two hands

and I only have 24 hours in a day, but I

can predict 100 problems, I can't solve

all of those problems. Like literally,

there is I want you all to understand

this. There is a gap between my ability

to detect problems and for me to be able

to implement solutions because I am

bounded by time, space, and reality. But

my mind can make predictive models. This

is why people who are gifted struggle

with anxiety. Hey y'all, if you're

interested in applying some of the

principles that we share to actually

create change in your life, check out

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actually two sources for anxiety. One is

cognitive and one is physiologic. For

the majority of people, reassurance

becomes something that you become

dependent on. You're not really dealing

with the root of the anxiety. And it

sort of becomes a self-fulfilling

prophecy where the more socially anxious

you become, the more awkward you appear.

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this creates another problem, right?

Which is now I'm making 100 predictions.

I can only do 10 solutions. And then I'm

able to predict the consequence of 90

problems that have no solutions. Oh my

god, I need to do so much. Where do I

start? It's too much to do. How do I

know it's going to work? Overwhelm. So,

that then fuels the fire, which is why

we see these papers that show that high

IQ results in a a risk of ADHD, autism

spectrum disorder, things like that.

Next thing to understand, just this is

another interesting point, is that

people who have high IQ are more likely

to ruminate. They're more likely to get

stuck in their head thinking the same

thoughts over and over and over again.

Right? Because if there are 100 problems

to solve and my hands can only solve 10

if I only have 24 hours in a day, what

is the smart person going to do? They're

going to lean into their strengths. Let

me see if I can perform a calculation to

reduce 100 problems to 99. How can I

figure out this situation so that I have

to do less? Because the only way this

works I can only I can only do 10 things

and there's 90 left. So let me see if I

can perform some calculations to reduce

100 to 90 and 90 to 80 and 80 to 70 and

60 to 50 to 40 30 40 to 30 down to 20

and then eventually 10 and then I can

work they're literally more prone to

rumination and thinking thinking

thinking thinking thinking to solve

problems and then they end up getting

stuck because now what's happening is

instead of solving those 10 because

those 10 isn't enough then what they

spend their energy in reducing 100 to 90

they spend spend all of their time

trying to whittle down their problem to

something solvable instead of solving,

instead of working. They focus on

compressing the problem. How do I go to

a party and be confident? How do I go to

a party and not feel anxious? How do I

figure out which major is going to be

right so that I stay engaged with it? I

don't get bored and has good job

opportunities by the time I graduate.

They're always trying to shape mold the

problem into solvable

instead of take one step forward because

that is their solution strategy, right?

The the brain learns how to do this and

they learn how to do this at a very

young age. That's why they're called

gifted. So early on this works. Oh, I

want to play video games all day. I

don't want to study for my math test.

How do I solve this problem? Oh, I know.

I'll just pay attention in school so

that I don't have to study. And if I pay

attention in school, then I can come

home and I never have to study. They

figure out problems. I mean, they figure

out solutions. And this is the problem

is that they develop a strategy that

only works at low rank, right? I'm going

to rapid expand every game. Just going

to rapid expand because people at my

rank never use rush strats. So they

start to develop bad habits. Why do they

develop bad habits? Because they can get

away with it. People who have a high

basic metabolic rate, a fast metabolism

often times have terrible eating habits.

Because whether they eat Twinkies or

whether they eat salad, they stay thin.

So they're not given the opportunity to

This is what's so tricky about life. So

many of the people that I work with, the

higher the capability is, the harder it

is to live up to your potential because

you're saddling all of these bad habits

that there was never any like corrective

evolutionary pressure for, right? And

that's why we get to some of these

really interesting statistics. Um, let

me see if I can find them for y'all. To

think rationally means to adopt

appropriate goals, take appropriate

action given one's goals and beliefs,

and hold beliefs that are commensurate

with available evidence. Intelligence

tests measure many important things

about thinking, but they do not directly

assess the degree of rationality of

thought. Thus, it is perhaps not

surprising that intelligence is quite

weakly related to at least some aspects

of rational thought. Okay, this I know

sounds weird, but basically if we look

at intelligence, this is what's kind of

hard to understand. So I think about

high IQ is a very strong beast that

you're trying to leash. So high IQ is

prone to rumination. So what happens

with people who are really intelligent,

right, is like they'll come into my

office and they'll say like, "Oh, I have

anxiety." And the problem and they're

like, "I know it's anxiety, but I can't

get it to stop." So the the animal at

the end of their leash is so much

stronger than they are. When it starts

to think in a particular way, they have

an undisiplined mind. And an

undisiplined mind that is really, really

strong. If I have a 200 lb or 800 lb

tiger at the end of a leash, it's going

to be harder to control than like a 60

lb golden retriever. This is the problem

that people with intelligence face. And

in this paper, they talk about

rationality, which is like the ability

to regulate your thinking. And we know

this, right? Because if we're smart, we

sort of realize that our thinking is

kind of like we don't think of it as

irrational, but it is irrational. That's

not the word that we would use. We think

we're hyperrational. And in this way,

they're defining rational as being able

to set appropriate goals and follow them

through, which is like rational, right?

But we're like, and we know we have

trouble with that, but we think we're

we're thinking rationally. But when our

IQ is kind of too strong for us to

control, it becomes undisiplined. That I

think is a better word to use and then

it gets out of our control and then we

struggle with it. We have trouble

restricting it. And so this is what's

really interesting. If you look at

income, if you look at IQ, the top 2% of

IQ people in the world earn less money

than the top 10%. Earn less money. the

higher you go on the IQ scale at some

point it's kind of like you know income

increases with IQ linear like maybe like

something like this and then at some

point it goes like this it craters

really hard at the upper levels of IQ

now the interesting thing sometimes

people will post and they say like oh

Dr. Okay, you always talk about gifted

kids, but I'm not gifted. I'm actually

like 80 IQ or 70 IQ. What do I do then?

What do I do if I am I am literally I

have a low IQ? And I've worked with

those people as well. So, here's what's

really interesting. If you have low IQ,

EQ or emotional capability is able to

buffer that gap. So, job performance

that is not attained through cognitive

intelligence may be attained through

emotional intelligence via multiple

complimentary mechanisms. The first

mechanism concerns expertise at

identifying and understanding the

emotions of other individuals. So what

does this mean? This means that even if

you can't do the job, understanding

anger, sadness, things like that,

understanding the emotions of your

colleagues is a huge way for you to

succeed at your job. Right? Helping your

team members, even if you are incapable

of doing the work, correlates with

improved job performance. In most if not

all jobs, organization members interact

with supervisors, co-workers, support

staff outsiders such as customers,

clients, or patients. This information

may in turn be converted into high task

performance by individuals with high

emotional intelligence and low cognitive

intelligence. So even if I'm not quite

as good at the technical side of

customer support, if I'm good at dealing

with people, that'll work. A second

mechanism by which emotional

intelligence may enhance to the job

performance of individuals with low

cognitive intelligence concerns how

regulating emotional influences

regulating emotion influences the

quality of social relationships. Often

times people that I work with who are

very high IQ. We we talked about how

they're predisposed to anxiety, ADHD,

even depression. There are lots of

papers about that that I've done whole

lectures on. So being able to regulate

your emotions becomes harder the higher

you climb in IQ. And so if you can

manage your own emotions even at low IQ,

that will improve job performance.

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