It was my only hospitalization in adulthood, but there were 3 others when my illness manifested. Much of those 'symptoms' are relative to what's going on in a person's life. I've always had bipolar II disorder (depression to hypomania) but when I take a substance that manipulates dopamine, well that all changes. Getting to the awareness of how acute my condition was took a short black girl telling me, "You talked too much". At the time, I was asked if I had any form of gainful employment, which was sorta silly to me, as I've had my own business since 2000. So I told them every job I had since 1985, in detail. TMI. Of course, when I had recognized it for myself, all I had to do was note the difference between meds and stop the one that was causing it. I cleared up within a day.

I really didn't take that comment personal, and in fact other than mention how irrelevant it was,. When I train my employees, sometimes I give them little instructions other than, "assemble this", to make them think. Of course it frustrates them, and in the end, it does what I want. It makes them think. There are really only 2 things I have to do to make something. First I have to decide to do it. Then, I do it. IQ has absolutely nothing to do with that. I've met several very talented individuals who chose a course of action that effectively castrated their abilities. They had plenty of 'potential' and yet became very unemployable. Potential is good, naturally, but it's the end result or bottom dollar that matters.

Considering the feelings and opinions of others isn't rocket science. It's more like actually caring enough to be considerate, and possibly, on occasion placing oneself the the shoes of the other person, especially on occasion when someone's mad at me helps. Caring enough to do that is important, but I've yet to see anything to suggest that it's related to IQ.

Are the two belief systems compatible? I imagine that a person who just wants to be happy won't care much for finding things out. A person who has a strong will to find things out won't care much or settle for just being happy. The two belief systems are at odds and likely to conflict

Law of human nature #3
Humans are beings of reason. To every effect there must be a cause. To every cause a reason. A reason without the scientific method is still a reason and in most cases its all the reason a human needs.

Dude, you are a scream!

Again, what bizarre dimension are you going to to find BS like this? There is zero such thing as a 'law of human nature' and that was just a bunch of gobbledygook!

Are we talking about the kind of intelligence you define as being able to remember what's written down in a book or are we talking about the kind of intelligence where the person has their own individual mind and can think out of the frame........Couldn't be too bothered with the first kind of intelligence, the second one is a must as I love having discussions with someone whose mind is independent.
And that my friend is something unique and something a person cant learn.... something you dont learn from a book.

I think that you must have a bit of the former to reason in the latter. Otherwise you're just speaking gibberish, and loose crediblity.

What if you reached a point, where the things you want to find out, cannot be found in a book?

"I want an incisive, inquisitive, insightful, irreverent mind. I want someone for whom philosophical discussion is foreplay. I want someone who sometimes makes me go ouch due to their wit and evil sense of humor. I want someone that I can reach out and touch randomly. I want someone I can cuddle