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In a book I once read, it was said that one can make a pretty good prediction about the future of an individual by simply examining their parents.
Even with known strong genetic influences on all life outcomes, do you still exert high effort for things like education and work? I'm thinking about how my life would look like a year, 5 years, and 10 years from now. I have no clear direction for the things I want to work towards in life. For those in the same boat, are you simply used to the uncertainty?
I used to think I would just go to college, get a job, and life would be acceptable. After dropping out multiple times, I am now almost done with college, and I fear that I will be nothing more than a wage slave. Time slipping past me as I make the daily commute and put in the work hours, with little chance of climbing any career ladders due to being filtered by below average intelligence as well as lacking social skills for nepotism/cronyism. I'm sure I will eventually come to terms with it and mentally adapt to live such a life, but I think about it a lot now. Many more years of solitude, not that it matters, but I will have little free time to enjoy copes.
Here are some stats from Plomin's Blueprint: Highly heritable traits: height (80%), body mass index (70%), intelligence (up to 80% in adulthood), personality (~50% for big 5 traits), mental health disorders. Even divorce has a strong genetic component (40%) after controlling for the environment.
"The regression model estimated that one IQ point increases total income from the ages of 25 to 65 by $50,586."
https://www.sebjenseb.net/p/how-profitable-is-embryo-selection
Even with known strong genetic influences on all life outcomes, do you still exert high effort for things like education and work? I'm thinking about how my life would look like a year, 5 years, and 10 years from now. I have no clear direction for the things I want to work towards in life. For those in the same boat, are you simply used to the uncertainty?
I used to think I would just go to college, get a job, and life would be acceptable. After dropping out multiple times, I am now almost done with college, and I fear that I will be nothing more than a wage slave. Time slipping past me as I make the daily commute and put in the work hours, with little chance of climbing any career ladders due to being filtered by below average intelligence as well as lacking social skills for nepotism/cronyism. I'm sure I will eventually come to terms with it and mentally adapt to live such a life, but I think about it a lot now. Many more years of solitude, not that it matters, but I will have little free time to enjoy copes.
Here are some stats from Plomin's Blueprint: Highly heritable traits: height (80%), body mass index (70%), intelligence (up to 80% in adulthood), personality (~50% for big 5 traits), mental health disorders. Even divorce has a strong genetic component (40%) after controlling for the environment.
"The regression model estimated that one IQ point increases total income from the ages of 25 to 65 by $50,586."
https://www.sebjenseb.net/p/how-profitable-is-embryo-selection
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