I have no idea what my IQ is. My parents never let me get tested (and I really wanted to when I was younger). And now that I’m old enough to get it done on my own, I don’t even want to. Do you want to know why? When I asked my parents why they wouldn’t let me get tested, they told me that they didn’t want me to get tested because it would be the worst thing they could do to me. I invested so my of my self-worth in that number that if I got a really high score, become complacent and lose my drive to work hard, and if I got a score lower than I expected, I would become depressed and not care about success anymore. And regardless of what I got, there would always come a day when I found someone with a higher IQ, which of course would shatter my illusions of superiority. They didn’t let me get tested because they wanted to instill in me the knowledge that the numbers are completely meaningless. They have no effect on your life. The only thing that will prove your intelligence is how you use and develop it. And that is what I believe, and I know it’s worth believing, because my parents’ successes are something to strive for.
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