Majority of schizophrenic patients can’t work and have to live on disability, some of us even have to deal with paranoia every now and then…I feel blessed that I am able to get a job with my college degree…
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Congratulations on your job. Great ur college degree helped u much.
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Hope you are having a great day
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Thanks Swordie,
It’s going not bad.
Hope you are too.
I agree, it’s sad. But sometimes it’s a perk to not have to deal with the daily “grind”
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I am doing fine , exercising atm, this forum looks depressing sometimes with genius thread and stuff lol
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A lot of people without a disability are also confined to mediocrity.
Life is what you make of it.
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I deal with it 24/7. I just remind myself I’m paranoid about things that can’t and will never happen and get on with my day.
I got a job in spite of no college degree. Online learning wasn’t an option back when I wanted to go to college. I can’t do classrooms full of people.
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I’m confined to mediocrity.
What’s your degree in @swordiebrom , and what do you work as?
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Finished laundry, exhausted
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Computer science, not disclosing my job as it may end up as a way to dox me
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Well done on having a computer science degree! It’s a good degree.
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You seem to be having some bad days a few days ago, what happened?
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‘g’ is not the only cognitive ability. A person can be very skilled at something without high ‘g.’ Savants exist.
I think it has been known since ancient times that not everyone without extremely high intelligence would be ‘confined to mediocrity.’ (words from your title). I think that many men and women in ancient times were elevated to the point of answering to kings, and not having to answer to ordinary people. I think they could do that because they were very good at their work, and what they do, and even kings want to be served by the best.
In short, when I order a meal at a restaurant, I want a good meal and good service. I’ve never asked whether the waiter is Einstein.
Congratulations on your job. I believe that if you get proficient enough in your field of work, you’ll have a status far above my current status.
Yea I was going mental. It happens when I deprive myself of sleep sometimes. I start to get moody, and anxious and that drives unusual thinking.
Feeling alright atm.
Phew. Lol
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I like being mediocre 
I have no desire to be otherwise.
Rene DesCartes was summoned by royalty as a tutor because he was decidedly not mediocre. He died of pneumonia.
Idk if this will be viewed negatively but I don’t see my self as living confined to mediocrity. I guess I tell my self growth means you might not have to. I’m not sure my starting point was the same as most people. I’m not very intelligent and have other problems since I was a kid. The fact that I do the stuff I love and some of those things take skill means to me that I have already gone outside of the limits I was supposed to be confined to.
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Not necessarily. You may need to sit down and take a hard look at what you can and can’t do. There is a band of things I can do I call my performance band. I can’t run, but I can walk all day. I can’t whitewater raft, but I can paddle a lake or river all day. And I can hold a camera. So I take the things I can do and try to combine them in unique ways that leverage my capabilities and go as hard as I can to level myself up.
Will I ever be famous like Ansel Adams? Nope. But have I moved beyond mediocrity? Yes.
When you figure out what your limits are and find something inside of them you like and you can do, that is when you start pushing those limits.
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My brother tells the same thing there are a million things to do but I do none