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Loneliness. Hard to find other people who think and/or feel as deeply as you do.

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Get enough sleep. The link between sleep deprivation and lowered mental performance is significant.

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It’s ok to celebrate your intelligence.

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When we’re around people like for long stretches of time, we can start to question our own intelligence.

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They believe the future can be better than the present.

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What happens when the most intelligent people on this planet experience love? They question it. They want to better understand it, explore it and test it.

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Those who fundamentally change or improve on pre-existing ideas are remembered by history not as thieves, but as geniuses.

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I start off stupid. I learn. I do. The only way to get better is to DO. Not think or write or watch. DO.

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They don’t allow their feelings to be masked or ignored.

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Being intelligent is more than getting a high SAT score and attending an Ivy League college. It’s more than being able to list out all of the state capitals and using six-syllable words.