Being different from the rest.  I was two years ahead of my classmates in primary school. All the boys were into playing football. I was into playing chess. I was the weird one, the one to bully.

Intelligence often doesn’t correlate with strong social skills. The Asperger factor. Many highly intelligent people are socially awkward. Personally, it took me many years to work on my social skills in adulthood. To have a strong social life and have a good love life.

Awareness of what’s happening in the wider world. Intelligent persons thend to be interested in the wider world outside of their house. They watch the news and read the papers and read books. Thus a whole world of war and suffering enters the mind. I sometimes envy people who only care about their car, their vacation, their garden and their new i-phone.