65 Reason Why Intelligent People have Less Friends

In this article you will learn the following

-65 traits and the reason why intelligent people have less friends

-27 challenges smart people face

-7 People-type and their choice of friends

-7 types of people real Intelligent and Smart people avoid

Why intelligent people are socially selective

Your personality determines you choice of friends - although you may find it difficult to see this phenomenon about yourself.

But if you are good observer of human nature - you can't miss to notice- the principle of - like likes like - about others.

You would invariably notice that the intellectually-gifted smart-intelligent - people have very few friends.

Unless the reason for having few-friends is psychological issues - having less friends is not necessarily a bad thing - it could turn out to be of advantage to you.

As per earlier belief - people who had an IQ score of 160+ were referred as genius and of MENSA-standard and anyone who had IQ of 130+ were called intelligent.

Now a days - the real-intelligent and smart people are those who have high EQ+SQ+SpQ & 42 types of intelligence [read my articles on these].

7 People-type and their choice of friends

• 1.People of vile & evil nature flock together
• 2.Mediocre and average [this could be the largest bunch]
• 3.Foolish people have equally foolish [this could be second largest group] followers and friends
• 4.Intelligent and smart people [their numbers is the smallest] choose similarly bright people
• 5.Confident and successful people mix with others successful achievers
• 6.Dictators choose fools, insecure and people of vile & evil nature as their supporters and followers
• 7.Negative people can be found around people who gossip, backbite and who are generally melancholic

65 traits and the reason why intelligent people have less friends

• 1.The number of real intelligent and smart people is very-very less - actually a minuscule compared to ordinary and average people [so they have less options to make friends]
• 2.Intelligent person tend to be very choosy - as they might have few unconscious standards and benchmarks to choose their friends and acquaintances
• 3.7 types of people real Intelligent and Smart people avoid
• I.People who accuse and blame others
• II.People who make excuses
• III.People who throw tantrums
• IV.People who pass time and waste their time
• V.People who show-off and display a lot of drama elements
• VI.People who are not very focused on success
• VII.People who are not learners
• 4.Smart people value the importance of focusing on the larger picture and important goals - they don't want to dilute this
• 5.Smart and intelligent people have different ways to manage their time - they treat time as one of the most important element to invest wisely
• 6.Although they too have need to relate with other human beings socially - they just can't hang-out with anyone
• 7.When you don't know them - they may come out as selfish and self-centered
• 8.Intelligent people are focused on improving their life qualitatively - which they realize CAN be achieved through having selective people around and away from the crowd
• 9.They have very high degree of emotional and social intelligence - along with high intellectual quotient
• 10.They are generally goals, accomplishment and action focused
• 11.Many of the intelligent and smart people may believe that more social interactions can make them lose
• 12.They may have few friends but the quality of relationships that they enjoy with these people is of extremely high quality
• 13.They are very flexible and adaptable to new changes
• 14.But the smarter and more intelligent they are - they more selective they become in choosing friends
• 15.They are fully comfortable in being themselves
• 16.They enjoy spending time in their own company - which they use to introspect, contemplate and reflect on future plans, finding solutions and realistic day-dreaming
• 17.They always give priority to achieving their goals rather than having fun with friends
• 18.Smart people value relationships in a different way
• 19.They also have different value on how they spend their time
• 20.Most of them have JOMO - joy of missing out [as oppose to FOMO - fear of missing out] read my articles on both
• 21.They are great observer and learn a lot through this - they can foresee and predict trends
• 22.Many of them are disruptive thinkers
• 23.They talks less and listen more
• 24.They also like to spend time with people who are smarter and more intelligent and more successful than them
• 25.Many of them create changes that affect the masses and change the future
• 26.They have abundance of energy
• 27.Family is most important to them
• 28.They avoid drama at all cost
• 29.Many of them turn out to be visionaries
• 30.Smart people are focused on long-term larger than life goals
• 31.Socially intelligent people - don't try to win argument - in fact they avoid arguments and gossips - they listen to understand - they accept that everyone is entitled to their own opinion
• 32.They enjoy deep conversations
• 33.They are more comfortable in small groups
• 34.They want to make best use of their resources like time, energy, money etc. As they realize that these are limited
• 35.Positive signs of high intelligence
• 36.High common-sense
• 37.Practical wisdom
• 38.Ability to learn new languages easily
• 39.High self-awareness and understanding
• 40.Innovative and creative mindset
• 41.Problem solver
• 42.Quick decision makers
• 43.Very high levels of curiosity
• 44.Absolutely no EGO
• 45.Can show their vulnerabilities
• 46.Accept their mistakes and then work on to correct those
• 47.Don't have any issue admitting that they don't know something
• 48.Clear about the basics of success, growth, relationship
• 49.Flexible and adaptable to pivot when something that they decided does not work
• 50.Very good empathy
• 51.Open to learn from anyone and anytime
• 52.Ask great and thought-provoking questions
• 53.Challenge experts and conventional practices and norms
• 54.They don't assume anything and challenge their own assumptions
• 55.They are continuous learners
• 56.They are aware of their own triggers and drivers
• 57.They experiment and try newer ways to do old things
• 58.They choose to hang out with people who are smarter than them
• 59.They exercise their body and mind regularly
• 60.They take risks after weighing pros and cons
• 61.They also keep contingency plans
• 62.When they are scared to anything - they acknowledge and then take a step towards what scares them
• 63.They are okay with failing and stretch themselves in the realm of unknown
• 64.They take full responsibilities of their actions and its consequences
• 65.They are very clear about their priorities

27 challenges smart people face

• 1.Intelligent people find it harder to fall in love and maintain romantic relationships for long
• 2.Some people with high IQ may get into alcohol, drugs , multiple relationships and can develop few psychological and mental disorders
• 3.Being a genius is not same as having a very high IQ - the real intelligent people also have very high degree of self-awareness, creativity and ability to ask uncomfortable questions of themselves as well as others
• 4.Smart and intelligent people are often misunderstood - because they are thinking ahead and when they share something - it goes above the ordinary thinking levels
• 5.Overthinking
• 6.Perfectionism
• 7.Loneliness
• 8.Success anxiety
• 9.Losing steam because of taking too-much on their plate
• 10.They also have very high expectations from themselves as well as others - which creates some avoidable relationship issues
• 11.They may choose not to mix with people whose only aim is to pass time having fun
• 12.Their definition of having fun also differs from mediocre people
• 13.Some of the highly intelligent people are socially awkward
• 14.Some of them are not very practical in worldly matters
• 15.Because they don't mix with too many people their social skills might get rusted - and they might feel more comfortable being a loner
• 16.Intelligent people are rarely happy
• 17.Different types of anxiety can be common among the highly intelligent
• 18.Child prodigies and early achievers don't always go on to be successful
• 19.Many times they get over burdened by other's expectations
• 20.Having greater intelligence does not always make them take wise decisions - many of the highly intelligent people have debilitating mental blind spots - especially because an objective, fair, unbiased decision-making is has got nothing to do with high iq
• 21.Highly intelligent people may tend to fall for the gambler's fallacy - where they assume after certain repetitions a specific outcome will happen
• 22.Many MENSA members were failures in important part of life
• 23.Sometimes highly intelligent people do irrational things and clever people can be dangerously and foolishly, misguided
• 24.They seek information instead of developing skills
• 25.They think too much - they psych themselves out
• 26.They have very few healthy ways to deal with their uncomfortable emotions
• 27.They might have some funny and stupid belief - that is why you find them supporting highly toxic ideologies - and then they start inventing reasons to support EVIL -where there are none