I'm too dumb to understand what this thread means but I'd like some of them IQ pills to get more smarter

Iq pill is like trying to become a male model as a baldcel.

Encouraging low iq people to compete in arenas that require mental horsepower is putting them into a position to fail.

I don’t mean to be a dick or blackpilled and I say this as someone with probably a low IQ.

I think the education system exploits this and people who have no business going to university do when they are better suited to more simple jobs.

I’ve experienced this first hand. I remember being in a decision modelling course in uni and I had to expel so much mental effort whereas my roommate learned everything in the lecture and barely studied. I was lost 5 minutes into the lecture and had to stay up till 3am studying.

Reflecting on this led me to the most brutal pill and that is the iq pill. No matter how hard someone works at some sort of mental task someone smarter will be able to compete the same task expelling less energy at a fraction of the time.

There is a concept called flow state where time sort of stops and you have heightened concentration and awareness. You enter this state by completing tasks where you progress and it’s not too difficult to progress. People with high iq can enter this state by completing mental tasks while people with low iq cannot - they may complete the task but the task is too difficult and expels too much energy for them too enter this state. This leads to stress hormones which are extremely unhealthy. Also to compound things it could lead to burnout and lack of long term consistency. This person should not take a job that requires creativity and problem solving.

Iq pill is like trying to become a male model as a baldcel.

Probably not, low IQ people most people won't fuck with because they're violent, they tend to be more loyal as well.

Probably the ugly pill is the worst one.

If it makes you feel better I can tell just by your writing style you're an above average IQ miscer

Thanks man.

I’m actually too scared to have my iq tested. If I scored below average I would most likely spiral into a clinical depression and probably give up on life.

Ignorance is bliss in this instance.

I'm not sure what the admissions criteria are at Canadian universities and they have changed somewhat in the US, but when I applied to college there were 2 tests, the SAT and the ACT, the SAT measured aptitude, and the ACT measured academic achievement. The SAT was essentially an IQ test until a few years after I took it. I can mail mine and $70 and become a member of Mensa, but why? I did well above average on the ACT, but there was a huge discrepancy between my 2 scores. I hated the school and the way it was taught in grade school and high school, and I essentially refused to do it. I could absorb in class, but send me home to demonstrate my work in the homework, no thanks, I just didn't do it, and I had poor grades. Anyway enough about me.

Using the SAT as admissions criteria ensures that everyone accepted has the intellectual capability to complete the coursework and thrive in the environment. Yes, some people can do less work to thrive than others, but everyone can thrive in the environment with enough dedication and work. It is a matter of effort for them. Some dude won a Nobel Prize in science with a 126 IQ, he was not a genius, but he was dedicated.

When you take it to the bottom ranks of colleges, the community college, the expectations after graduating should not be as high. But it can prepare you for success for life. A bunch of my High School friends went to Oakton Community college because they accepted you with a very low hurdle, most got mundane jobs, but on the other side, that is the school Charlie Kirk went to, I'm not saying community college is not a good thing, there are financial considerations as well. But if you go to community college and are not prepared to put in the effort, yes you are wasting your time.

I didn't know what Flow State was until you described it above, that is exactly what happened to me when I took the SAT and GMAT for grad school. I lose consciousness to some extent, I don't think about anything around me, I lose myself and my mind works and solves the problems. It kind of backfired on the GMAT because at some point I realized I spent 20 minutes on 1 problem thinking i was close to the solution the whole time. Anyway, I cruised through the rest and got an above average score for the MBA school of my choice.

also:

Higher education was a good thing until it became over-marketed and over-politicized. The higher education industry exploits young people by enticing them to pursue 4 year degrees, and lots of them go into debt while doing so. This wasn't such a bad thing in the 80s and 90s and earlier when tuition rates weren't so high, and when a university degree was a pretty good safety net that wasn't going to guarantee you a job but gave you a much better shot at one. Then the federal government expanded their grants and loans, as did private providers, and more young people went to college. This included a bunch of people who were unsuited to higher academia as OP mentioned. Employers caught onto this, which is why now having a 4 year degree on your resume means very little to them.

The second effect of that is with students getting lots more grants and loans, the colleges themselves realized that they could keep increasing tuition rates. On top of that they expanded their marketing and persuasion techniques. They know they are persuading kids to attend university who would be better off going to trade schools, but they don't care because the tuition money to them is guaranteed whether the kids can make it through the degree and find a job or not.

The people who are "advising" these kids need a reality check as well. While many of them are intelligent individuals, they lack in common sense and knowledge of what's actually going to benefit kids in the long term. For example I was in college for math and was considering switching to physics. My advisor told me "your English professors rave about your papers you should be an English major; you can do anything with that degree and it shows employers that you know how to think." They tell me this despite me having a perfect 800 SAT Math II score and placing highly in several state and multi-state math competitions. The last part hooked me because at the time I had no idea what I wanted for a job I just liked doing equations and solving problems but I knew that there were no jobs consisting of that other than teaching other people math or physics. So I switched to English major and it was next to useless to me finding a job. Then you have all the high school counselors who try to push kids into university when they aren't suited to it.

I'd recommend a few things. I think we could redirect our financial support for education. Government grants should only go to degrees that are high priority useful for finding a job and useful to society. Basically STEM, business, accounting, pre-med, nursing, pre-law. If you switch to a major outside of those, you lose your scholarship, and if your GPA falls below 3.0 you're on probation for a semester and if you don't get back above 3.0 you lose your scholarship. If people want other degrees that's fine. They can pay for it themselves or earn private scholarships. But taxpayers shouldn't be on the hook for useless degrees that aren't helping people find work after college. Otherwise divert some funding into grants for trade school and community college students. Encourage kids to develop useful skills that will make them desirable job candidates. And get people into advisor roles who aren't just going to shill for their preferred program.

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Tl;dr - Advisors need a reality check and actually advise students on what's best for their future. Colleges just treat admissions and their students as a commodity and a profit tool. Funding post HS education is important, but we need to incentivize certain useful degrees and trade schools/community college.

Here's the priority list for success in 2026. Diversity, nepotism, credentials, actual skills.

IQ falls under the actual skills category and is the least important.

Iq pill is like trying to become a male model as a baldcel.

Encouraging low iq people to compete in arenas that require mental horsepower is putting them into a position to fail.

I remember how much I was pushed to become a physical therapist. I studied and worked like crazy in classes like physics II, organic chemistry, calc II at a good university. No matter how hard I worked and studied I was barely able to pass and struggled like crazy in the labs as well. Obviously my grade of C's made it impossible to get into any physical therapy schools. A total waste but it's something I should have never been encouraged or pushed to do in the first place.

Lmao calc II for physical therapist !!

I remember how much I was pushed to become a physical therapist. I studied and worked like crazy in classes like physics II, organic chemistry, calc II at a good university. No matter how hard I worked and studied I was barely able to pass and struggled like crazy in the labs as well. Obviously my grade of C's made it impossible to get into any physical therapy schools. A total waste but it's something I should have never been encouraged or pushed to do in the first place. I should've known this after takng the SAT countless times and never breaking an 1100 despite the number of tutors or classes I took.

I don’t mean to be a dick or blackpilled and I say this as someone with probably a low IQ.

I think the education system exploits this and people who have no business going to university do when they are better suited to more simple jobs.

I’ve experienced this first hand. I remember being in a decision modelling course in uni and I had to expel so much mental effort whereas my roommate learned everything in the lecture and barely studied. I was lost 5 minutes into the lecture and had to stay up till 3am studying.

Reflecting on this led me to the most brutal pill and that is the iq pill. No matter how hard someone works at some sort of mental task someone smarter will be able to compete the same task expelling less energy at a fraction of the time.

There is a concept called flow state where time sort of stops and you have heightened concentration and awareness. You enter this state by completing tasks where you progress and it’s not too difficult to progress. People with high iq can enter this state by completing mental tasks while people with low iq cannot - they may complete the task but the task is too difficult and expels too much energy for them to enter this state. This leads to stress hormones which are extremely unhealthy. Also to compound things it could lead to burnout and lack of long term consistency. This person should not take a job that requires creativity and problem solving.