1. The higher your IQ, the more thoughts and ideas you will have to utilize.It is this which makes you closer to genius. Without having bright ideas, nothing can happen. The high IQ allows those bright ideas to come about, so that you can use them to achieve your goals.2. Some professions require a high IQ by default.Therefore having a high IQ would almost be mandatory to allow you to achieve genius and distinction in that field. For example, almost every area of science will require you to have a high IQ including engineering (inventing things), and the corporate world. I have never encountered anything, either at school, university or at work that has been intellectually difficult for me. I got an English degree and a law degree and barely worked to get either. My memory has always served me well. I quickly see patterns that others don't seem to notice and just find concepts come easier to me than to a lot of other people. When I first learned a foreign language, I was living in the country to learn that language. After three months, I was fluent in their language. My Junior year of high school, I accidentally slept through half of my classes, having forgotten there was a test that day. I got to my classroom with ten minutes to spare and, by the time my teacher was done scolding me, had about five minutes to complete the test. One of my friends had studied the night before, was still at her desk when I walked in, and took the rest of the class period to complete it. When the tests were handed back, she scored an 83%. I scored a 98%.Mine wasn't that high - 156. 1.Easy to pick any new concept SUPER fast. Was always bored at school. I could easily get any complex concepts just by picking up sentences and keywords from textbooks and would always get high grades with little to no effort. Helped me a lot in corporate life: new software, new process, new department, new challenge - all of those were easy.There's no doubt that there has been a marked increase in my overall intelligence. I went into this with an intelligence in the range of a standard deviation below the mean. I had difficulty with comprehension of basic concepts, reading, writing and arithmetic.In the couple of weeks since, every aspect of my life has changed. I'm absorbing information and learning new things like a sponge. I'm learning french, german, spanish, and can already speak, read, and write in all three of these languages well enough to get by. Where previously I struggled with the basic concepts of arithmetic, I'm now wading my way through Calculus and Trigonometry. I've discovered a particular joy in unraveling the mysteries of physics. As of late I've been studying electricity and magnetism, but I hope to progress to more advanced and modern topics (relativity, quantum mechanics, and eventually things like string theory and membrane theory) in due time.Sometimes when I'm reading a book, I'll close my eyes and the whole page will come to me like a picture.I have no problem handling large numbers in my head and sometimes I find myself staring out the window manipulating and rearranging vast arrays of equations in my mind. Sometimes for no reason other than to unravel a particularly sticky intricacy of higher dimensions. (linear system representations of them anyways)I've never touched a piano in my life. I picked that up especially quickly and am working on a concerto of my own. My friend (who is a piano teacher) told me I play with the technical virtuosity of a master. And I've never touched or considered the piano at any point in my life up until a week and half ago.I've had my intelligence tested by several different agencies in the past four days and my intelligence has ranged roughly evenly distributed over 4 to 5 standard deviations above the mean (160 to 175 IQ).I feel I can reach even greater intellectual heights.I'm working on something that may solve the problem of lack of oxygen flow to the brain. My solution will require nano-scale fabrication though and technology in that department may have a few years to go before it catches up with the theory I am developing.I'm terribly interested in how any of this was possible. I have clear memories of myself before I started your program. I wasn't technically "mentally challenged" (to borrow from the modern euphemisms of educational jargon in this topic) but I was close to that range. I struggled with understanding simple topics and could hardly focus on the simplest of ideas for more than a few seconds.Now I feel I'm one of the smartest people alive.