Would anyone admit they are intellectual or brainy?

Question

When I talk to the average person they do not hold my interest. I like brainy and intellectual people who are a little bit creative and off beat. Those type of people are never all that popular or the big man on campus. Why?

I wonder why people who are good with their bodies are chic and popular but people who excercise their minds (brainy and intellectual) are usually social outcasts? Why?

Answer 1

One of the most intellectual people I have ever seen is George Carlin.  Just rent one of his stand-up concert dvd's.  Yet he is one of the most awkward looking individuals you will see but extremely intelligent

Answer 2

Intellect separates people in the same way that physical size tends to. There have been many 'big' people who are also highly articulate and intelligent people. If i was to follow your thinking it would seem to me that to be small in stature and in intellect would generally be the pits. Remember there is a third component in human beings that is often sadly lacking and that is our emotions. Even the unintelligent weakling can posess the power of compassion, kindness and selflessness and unless unfortunate experience our deepest emotion, 'love'. Give me someone with a kind heart rather than an IQ of 160 any day.

Answer 3

because they figure out what is important in life...

Answer 4

...."I wonder why people who are good with their bodies are chic and popular but people who excercise their minds (brainy and intellectual) are usually social outcasts? Why?"....

Society is messed up, that's why. We've been conditioned to think that those who have higher intellegence are somehow freakish and abnormal. It's harsh, but the truth.

The majority of people are of course in the average intellegence range, which means that there will be less in the higher average and gifted range. And as you know...majority rules.

In response to the initial question of this topic, I'm willing to admit that I'm quite intellectual in some areas, very in others, and not at all in many.

Answer 5

Maybe because they give other people the impression they THINK they are more intelligent than other people.

Some of the most interesting people I have met have been very intelligent but you wouldn't know it until you had a long conversation with them. They are humble about their intelligence not haughty.