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Thread: Which leads to more success: Extremely high (genius) IQ or awesome social skills?

post 10000059944 02-19-2026, 11:02 PM
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Which leads to more success: Extremely high (genius) IQ or awesome social skills?

If the guy with very high IQ has average social skills (isn't a weirdo or autistic genius)

And the guy with awesome social skills is of average intelligence

They're both average height and average attractiveness
post 10000059947 02-19-2026, 11:08 PM
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Repost

https://forum.obnoxiousbrutes.com/showthread.php?t=184026743

Fuck off

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post 10000060382 02-20-2026, 10:45 AM
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depends on career choice, both can be successful

If you're asking about who has a better chance to make 500K-1MM per year, probably social skills and reasonably high intelligence will be more important

If you're asking about founding a billion dollar company, the brains are going to outweigh the social skills
post 10000060384 02-20-2026, 10:48 AM
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The best tends to be above average intelliance combined with great social skills. Those people tend to be the ones making shit happen.

Genuises tend to not be very successful on their own, and low IQ people with high social skills also can only reach a certain point.
post 10000060387 02-20-2026, 10:50 AM
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Social skills and it's not even close.
Quant Researcher Senior VP would top out less than a million, but portfolio managers who have a good client base make double that on the regular.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
post 10000060392 02-20-2026, 10:56 AM
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Depends on other factors but all things being equal, social skills
post 10000060395 02-20-2026, 10:56 AM
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Social skills.

Social skills ---> networking + people liking you ---> money.

Example, kaicenat cannot read. And yet has millions of dollars because of good social skills.

post 10000060408 02-20-2026, 11:13 AM
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Social skills are a meme for the gullible. It's all about physical attributes, which includes face, height, hair, beard, intelligence, voice, teeth, cock, ...
post 10000060412 02-20-2026, 11:16 AM
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Social skills for sure, it's not what you know but who you know. Even in medical careers, people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care, srs
Have fun and be yourself :-)
post 10000061349 02-21-2026, 12:38 AM
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bump
post 10000061353 02-21-2026, 01:01 AM
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Social skills.

You're the best Gmiscer! (I know this will piss some mentally ill ppl off ) What is misc withouth gmiscer? Truly? :)
post 10000061358 02-21-2026, 01:18 AM
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social skills + average iq >>>>>>>>>>>>> high iq anytime of the day

plus most high-IQ people are introverted/on the spectrum (all the fuking time dedsrs)
You can't fight fate
post 10000061383 02-21-2026, 02:11 AM
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Originally Posted By CeBKa⏩
social skills + average iq >>>>>>>>>>>>> high iq anytime of the day

plus most high-IQ people are introverted/on the spectrum (all the fuking time dedsrs)
True, and my first interview way back was with the ceo of the San Antonio Express. Got to him because his son was my party buddy. He told me they were careful about those straight A students cause they couldn't really perform quickly. Needed a day or two for everything..
post 10000061384 02-21-2026, 02:13 AM
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post 10000061388 02-21-2026, 02:17 AM
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Originally Posted By balls⏩
High rep ratio on misc >



Probably overthinkers or somthin
Your right, thank you mr balls.
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