<p><span>In this article you will learn the following</span><br></p><p>-<b data-redactor-tag="b">65 traits and the reason why intelligent people have less friends </b></p><p>-<b data-redactor-tag="b">27 challenges smart people face</b></p><p>-<b data-redactor-tag="b">7 People-type and their choice of friends</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">-7 types of people real Intelligent and Smart people avoid</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Why intelligent people are socially selective</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Your personality determines you choice of friends</b> - although you may find it difficult to see this phenomenon about yourself.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">But if you are good observer of human nature</b> - <b data-redactor-tag="b">you can't miss to notice- the principle of - like likes like</b> - about others.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">You would invariably notice that the intellectually-gifted smart-intelligent - people</b> have very few friends.</p><p>Unless the reason for having few-friends is psychological issues - <b data-redactor-tag="b">having less friends is not necessarily a bad thing - it could turn out to be of advantage to you.</b></p><p>As per earlier belief - <b data-redactor-tag="b">people who had an IQ score of 160+ were referred as genius and of MENSA-standard</b> and anyone who had IQ of 130+ were called intelligent.</p><p>Now a days - <b data-redactor-tag="b">the real-intelligent and smart people are those who have high EQ+SQ+SpQ & 42 types of intelligence</b> [read my articles on these].</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">7 People-type and their choice of friends</b></p> <ul><li>1.People of vile & evil nature flock together</li> <li>2.Mediocre and average [this could be the largest bunch]</li> <li>3.Foolish people have equally foolish [this could be second largest group] followers and friends</li> <li>4.Intelligent and smart people [their numbers is the smallest] choose similarly bright people</li> <li>5.Confident and successful people mix with others successful achievers </li> <li>6.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Dictators choose fools, insecure and people of vile & evil</b> nature as their supporters and followers</li> <li>7.Negative people can be found around people who gossip, backbite and who are generally melancholic </li></ul> <p><b data-redactor-tag="b">65 traits and the reason why intelligent people have less friends </b></p> <ul><li>1.<b data-redactor-tag="b">The number of real intelligent and smart people is very-very less - actually a minuscule compared</b> to ordinary and average people [so they have less options to make friends] </li> <li>2.Intelligent person tend to be very choosy - <b data-redactor-tag="b">as they might have few unconscious standards and benchmarks</b> to choose their friends and acquaintances</li> <li><b data-redactor-tag="b">3.</b><b data-redactor-tag="b">7 types of people real Intelligent and Smart people avoid</b></li> <li>I.People who accuse and blame others</li> <li>II.People who make excuses</li> <li>III.People who throw tantrums </li> <li>IV.People who pass time and waste their time</li> <li>V.People who show-off and display a lot of drama elements</li> <li>VI.People who are not very focused on success</li> <li>VII.People who are not learners</li> <li>4.Smart people value the <b data-redactor-tag="b">importance of focusing on the larger picture and important goals - they don't want to dilute</b> this</li> <li>5.Smart and intelligent people <b data-redactor-tag="b">have different ways to manage their time - they treat time as one of the most important</b> element to invest wisely</li> <li>6.Although they too have need to relate with other human beings socially - <b data-redactor-tag="b">they just can't hang-out with anyone</b></li> <li>7.When you don't know them - they may come out as selfish and self-centered</li> <li>8.Intelligent people are focused on improving their life qualitatively - <b data-redactor-tag="b">which they realize CAN be achieved through having selective people around and away from the crowd</b></li> <li>9.They have very high degree of emotional and social intelligence - along with high intellectual quotient</li> <li>10.They are generally goals, accomplishment and action focused</li> <li>11.Many of the intelligent and smart people may believe that more social interactions can make them lose</li> <li>12.They may have few friends but the quality of relationships that they enjoy with these people is of extremely high quality</li> <li>13.They are very flexible and adaptable to new changes </li> <li>14.But the smarter and more intelligent they are - they more selective they become in choosing friends</li> <li>15.They are fully comfortable in being themselves</li> <li>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</li> <li>17.They always give priority to achieving their goals rather than having fun with friends</li> <li>18.Smart people value relationships in a different way</li> <li>19.They also have different value on how they spend their time</li> <li>20.Most of them have JOMO - joy of missing out [as oppose to FOMO - fear of missing out] read my articles on both</li> <li>21.They are great observer and learn a lot through this - they can foresee and predict trends</li> <li>22.Many of them are disruptive thinkers</li> <li>23.They talks less and listen more</li> <li>24.They also like to spend time with people who are smarter and more intelligent and more successful than them</li> <li>25.Many of them create changes that affect the masses and change the future</li> <li>26.They have abundance of energy </li> <li>27.Family is most important to them</li> <li>28.They avoid drama at all cost</li> <li>29.Many of them turn out to be visionaries</li> <li>30.Smart people are focused on long-term larger than life goals</li> <li>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</li> <li>32.They enjoy deep conversations</li> <li>33.They are more comfortable in small groups </li> <li>34.They want to make best use of their resources like time, energy, money etc. As they realize that these are limited</li> <li>35.Positive signs of high intelligence</li> <li>36.High common-sense </li> <li>37.Practical wisdom </li> <li>38.Ability to learn new languages easily</li> <li>39.High self-awareness and understanding </li> <li>40.Innovative and creative mindset</li> <li>41.Problem solver</li> <li>42.Quick decision makers</li> <li>43.Very high levels of curiosity</li> <li>44.Absolutely no EGO</li> <li>45.Can show their vulnerabilities</li> <li>46.Accept their mistakes and then work on to correct those</li> <li>47.Don't have any issue admitting that they don't know something</li> <li>48.Clear about the basics of success, growth, relationship </li> <li>49.Flexible and adaptable to pivot when something that they decided does not work</li> <li>50.Very good empathy</li> <li>51.Open to learn from anyone and anytime</li> <li>52.Ask great and thought-provoking questions</li> <li>53.Challenge experts and conventional practices and norms</li> <li>54.They don't assume anything and challenge their own assumptions</li> <li>55.They are continuous learners</li> <li>56.They are aware of their own triggers and drivers</li> <li>57.They experiment and try newer ways to do old things</li> <li>58.They choose to hang out with people who are smarter than them</li> <li>59.They exercise their body and mind regularly</li> <li>60.They take risks after weighing pros and cons</li> <li>61.They also keep contingency plans</li> <li>62.When they are scared to anything - they acknowledge and then take a step towards what scares them</li> <li>63.They are okay with failing and stretch themselves in the realm of unknown</li> <li>64.They take full responsibilities of their actions and its consequences</li> <li>65.They are very clear about their priorities</li></ul> <p><b data-redactor-tag="b">27 challenges smart people face</b></p> <ul><li>1.Intelligent people find it harder to fall in love and maintain romantic relationships for long</li> <li>2.Some people with high IQ may get into alcohol, drugs , multiple relationships and can develop few psychological and mental disorders</li> <li>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</li> <li>4.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Smart and intelligent people are often misunderstood - </b>because they are thinking ahead and when they share something - it goes above the ordinary thinking levels</li> <li>5.Overthinking</li> <li>6.Perfectionism</li> <li>7.Loneliness</li> <li>8.Success anxiety</li> <li>9.Losing steam because of taking too-much on their plate </li> <li>10.<b data-redactor-tag="b">They also have very high expectations from themselves as well as others</b> - which creates some avoidable relationship issues</li> <li>11.They may choose not to mix with people whose only aim is to pass time having fun</li> <li>12.Their definition of having fun also differs from mediocre people</li> <li>13.Some of the highly intelligent people are socially awkward </li> <li>14.Some of them are not very practical in worldly matters</li> <li>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</li> <li>16.Intelligent people are rarely happy </li> <li>17.Different types of anxiety can be common among the highly intelligent</li> <li>18.Child prodigies and early achievers don't always go on to be successful</li> <li>19.Many times they get over burdened by other's expectations</li> <li>20.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Having greater intelligence does not always make them take wise decisions - many of the highly intelligent people have debilitating mental blind spots</b> - especially because an objective, fair, unbiased decision-making is has got nothing to do with high iq</li> <li>21.Highly intelligent people may tend to fall for the gambler's fallacy - where they assume after certain repetitions a specific outcome will happen</li> <li>22.Many MENSA members were failures in important part of life</li> <li>23.Sometimes highly intelligent people do irrational things and clever people can be dangerously and foolishly, misguided</li> <li>24.They seek information instead of developing skills</li> <li>25.They think too much - they psych themselves out</li> <li>26.They have very few healthy ways to deal with their uncomfortable emotions</li> <li>27.<b data-redactor-tag="b">They might have some funny and stupid belief - that is why you find them supporting highly toxic ideologies</b> - and then they start inventing reasons to support EVIL -where there are none</li></ul><div>#typesofpeoplesmartintelligentpeopleavoid, #whyintelligentpeoplehavelessfriends, #challengessmartpeopleface, #troublesintelligentpeoplegetinto, #typesofpeoplewechooseasfriends, #peopletypesandtheirchoiceoffriends, #whyintelligentpeoplearesociallyselective, #smartpeople, #intelligentperson, #whyhavinglessfriendsgood<span class="redactor-invisible-space"></span><br></div>