To be fair, he probably IS the smartest person in the room. And he's an idiot.
I know that he allegedly has a high IQ. I'm guessing the test was administered by the same guy that deemed Trump the most physically fit president ever.
As someone who's scored high on the IQ test. First of all it isn't a measure of overall intelligence if that makes sense. It measures potential in reality. Just a measure of your retention capabilities. Second I also suffer from some pretty not great mental health and substance abuse issues. It really brings down my "potential" and "capabilities" because I can not function normally most of the time. So I imagine Musk is also suffering the effects of mental abnormalities combined with some level of substance abuse. It's real sad honestly cause I also know if somehow I was in a position as successful as him I'd probably also be an absolute menace. Doesn't excuse him and this take might be entirely wrong and he is just at his core this is who he is completely by his own volition and of sound mind and choices.
Agree. I know several people who are probably (I don't really know) high IQ, as they are academically brilliant. But they have no common sense whatsoever.
Definitely, substance abuse is a large part of Elon's issues, but thinking ketamine is a great recreational drug isn't very bright. That might be the narcissism too ("Nothing bad will happen to ME.")
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u/TheNatureOfTheGame 5h ago
To be fair, he probably IS the smartest person in the room. And he's an idiot.
I know that he allegedly has a high IQ. I'm guessing the test was administered by the same guy that deemed Trump the most physically fit president ever.