Finally figured it out...

Not too long ago, while working to develop a standardized screening method for a company looking to hire foreigners in Japan, I stumbled across an intelligence testing site online. As I was curious about how they worked, and thought EQ testing (which I'd already heard about a lot of other businesses using) might provide an easy solution to the task at hand, I decided to put myself through one of their tests. It took me an hour or so to go through, and in the end, I didn't think that I did all that great... until I found out that I'd outscored 96% of all the people who've taken the test so far. I was shocked. And with that, I decided to find out just how smart I actually am, and spent the next few hours putting myself through a myriad of other tests...And oddly enough, I ended up scoring above average across the board. (On some tests only by a little bit, but on others by quite a lot.) According to one paper test I found and took, I'm also perfectly intuitive...which might explain why I have deja vu so much... or in the least why I've always thought I could do a way better job than most of the other actors on the pyschic friends network. (Yah man! I cahn faeke a Jamaican accent too, don't ya know!)

Anyway, as I had mentioned in my other blog, I've always felt like I was 'different' somehow, and I guess now I know how. Apparently I'm smarter than average. Wish I knew that was the issue when I was in high school and college. If so, I probably would have concentrated on honing my mind through academia instead of spending all my time learning to kick dudes in the head. (Can't say anyone ever offered me a scholarship for that). In a way though, I guess it makes sense. Looking back on the last EQ test I took several years ago during a course on Leadership in Hong Kong (at the time I was studying business there), I outscored everyone else in the class, and at the time, I didn't even know what EQ was.

It also explains why I spent my early childroom reading dictionaries and encyclopedias, why I could call the results of the war in Iraq before it even started (any of you guys remember that mass email?), and why I never understood why people lie when it's so easy to read when most people are doing it. (if you're looking people directly in the eye when they are talking to you, oftentimes you can figure it out just by watching when they break eye contact during the conversation- let alone all the other things like traces of hesitancy in their voice, body language, etc)

Granted, I still did really well in school (even with my work and training schedule I still got a 3.99 in my last semester at Michigan State) and I did really love martial arts (and still do), but had I known that my seeing the world 'differently' was simply a function of intelligence, I certainly wouldn't have ignored all those offers and opportunities for honor societies and what not. So it goes, I guess.

Well, in any event, now dear readers, we both know not only how it is that I ended up on this crazy life path of mine, but why it is that I feel so compelled to bore you with my intellectual and political ranting in my other blog. It's not just because I'm egotistical, it's because I'm actually smart. And if you wanna doubt it, be my guest. Just remember that if you talk sh--, I know full-well how to kick you in the head ;)