The story of the smartest woman in the world whose life changed at the age of 10

If you were asked who is the smartest person in modern times, you would probably say Elon Musk or Steve Jobs. But in fact, the person who officially has the highest IQ (intelligence quotient) is a woman named Marilyn vos Savant, whose brain is what she is famous for.

we, from awesome.club, We are always excited to learn about the lives of extraordinary people and today we would like to share the story of Marilyn vos Savant. And it even has a bonus with the IQ scores of popular personalities.

Marilyn was born in 1946 in Missouri, USA. Her parents were immigrants from Germany and Italy. She had a normal, peaceful childhood and nothing extraordinary happened in her life. An apple didn’t fall on her head and she didn’t yell “Eureka!” She was just a normal kid, when something happened, changing your life.

Marilyn received her first IQ test in September 1956, when she was just 10 years old. His mental age was 22 years and 10 months. and their overall score was 228. For comparison, the average IQ score of a normal person ranges from 85 to 115.

Although the result showed that Marilyn had an extraordinary brain, her parents decided to hide this information from the public, in order to guarantee her a normal childhood.

As Marilyn got older, she continued her studies, but felt bored and dropped out of the University of Washington two years later. Marilyn began to build her career in stocks and real estate. Despite this, her real passion was writing. She used her personal investments to become a full-time writer. But even so, Marilyn wrote novels and short stories under a pseudonym, to stay out of the spotlight.

The year 1988 changed his life. His unbelievably high IQ level of 228 was inducted into the World’s Hall of Fame. Guinness Book of World Records🇧🇷 Suddenly, Marilyn became a celebrity.

Interviews and TV shows came into her life, but Marilyn didn’t let that go to her head: “We only use about 10% of our brain, somewhere between 5% and 15%.” In his opinion, people are capable of extraordinary things. Only some people can use “17.7%” and others, “17.8%”.

Marilyn’s personality became attractive to audiences and she was featured in an episode of the simpsons, in 1999.

As a successful wife, mother and columnist, her life seemed all too normal. In 1987, she married Robert K. Jarvik, the surgeon who developed the mechanical artificial human heart. But her detractors kept saying that she had chosen a very trivial life path and that she was not using her talent. She even got angry messages and people even speculated that maybe she wasn’t a genius.

In an interview, she said that the IQ is just an “ability” of how you use your intelligence. She is not a calculator, but a normal human being: “Everyone has the capacity to be at least an Einstein.”

Despite all the gossip about her life, Marilyn believes she is on the right track: “Society offers us so much. I don’t think we do enough to give back, but I believe we all carry a social responsibility and I think I have one too. And I prefer to think that writing is an excellent way to give people back what they gave me.”

Marilyn is a good example that smart people aren’t always the ones who lead the world, but that’s okay, because we need to do what we really like.

We hope everyone finds their own path in life and is happy!

According to experts, Steve Jobs probably had an IQ of around 160 or higher. That means he was conventionally smarter than about 6,839,822,949 people on Earth.

the IQ of Elon Musk is estimated at 155.

the IQ of Mark Zuckerberg is 152, which corresponds to being in the top 0.1% of the world’s population.

What is your opinion on IQ tests? Do you believe they are able to show how smart a person is?