This is one of the side effects of being above average intelligently, you might be in a very captivating environment where nature is colorful and bright but you're rather thinking of how it's made possible rather than how beautiful it is. Your thoughts are like "This is a really brilliant work" rather than "This is a very beautiful piece of art". You think quality or process rather than end result.
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| Intelligent people are mostly mental rather than physical |
Take for example the elementary school days, you're chosen for inter-school debates and you're open to criticisms even by peers with below average intelligence if you perform less than expectation.
Saurabh Mehta says Unrealistic expectation makes you so cautious about your failure that you cannot sometimes afford to take risks just fearing that what would happen if you lose.
3.) You may bag so many enemies trying to correct people
History has shown that people mostly get embarrassed by corrections especially in presence of an audience. Intelligence people tend to fight with the urge to correct inaccuracy in other people's concerns.
Raxit Karramreddy said "when you correct people each and every time to a point that they stop hanging around with you or stop talking with you."
Meanwhile, you're only trying to help
4.) You are easily misjudged to be a braggart
Sometimes people assume that when you're genuinely excited to share something you've learned, you're really just flaunting your knowledge. - Business Insider
You'll meet people who already have an antagonistic mindset before hearing your idea and this can be frustrating even if they don't have a better one. Another downside that you're really intelligent.
5.) You tend to overthink things
In search of answers to pacify your curiosity, you spend so much time thinking about something that strike others as really straight forward. You spend too much time investigating and analyzing and it drives you crazy.
You may find it difficult to make choices.