The flip-side of being intelligent

Everybody goes through it at some point of time or the other, in which one feels totally inert. The pressures seem to be too much to take on. Familiarity is not present and though one might have talked his mind into pursuing something totally new, there is no fuel to do so. You feel that you have feet of lead, that just refuse to move in the direction that you want them to move. What then?

The more intelligent the person, the greater are the chances of suffering from these symptoms. I find that the less intelligent ones are spared of this dilemma as they just work with their blinkers on. They live their entire lives around the median. Finishing a project doesn't give them a spectacular high, but they are scared of the consequences of not finishing it. In the case of the more intelligent ones, there is no such thing as a median. In the event of a finished project or task, the feeling of exhilaration is substantial, but strangely, it is their ability and the confidence in their abilities that stops them from feeling scared when things don't go their way. They exude an air of nonchalance about them. They know that they can do a certain task and the actual completion of the task is only secondary to them. They work only for their own satisfaction, and since their own standards are very high, in the event of them being satisfied, nobody find faults in the completed work. But then, that is the million dollar question. How often do the intelligent people complete their work?

One of the main reasons that intelligent people don't always get the top grades in a class is only because they are more bothered about their own satisfaction. If they perceive a task to be less challenging, they often even avoid it. The less intelligent ones pounce on it, and do not cease till it conforms to the standards that someone else sets for it. They seldom set their own standards and even despise the more intelligent ones who do it. The end result? The less intelligent person has completed one hundred percent of the easy to do task while the more intelligent person may or may not have completed his more difficult to complete task.
An intelligent person is temperamental, most of the time and paces himself. He does not bother in syncing himself to the pace of others, so if all goes well and the person does not get distracted or jaded, the task will get completed and very well at that, but in case he gets demotivated or distracted, that will be the end of the progress.

So, is being born intelligent a crime? Or can intelligence be used as an excuse for under performance??? Neither, but often, the troubles the intelligent people face when making decisions is mocked by others who are not considerate and often less capable. The only real solution is that the intelligentsia should give up their quirkiness and work with a will. Whether the job comes up to their own standards or not, it is there and it has to be completed, and there are no two ways about it.