Published on August 28, 2025 3:52 PM GMT I am a knowledge worker. Over the course of my life I've felt insecure about not knowing more than I already do. I took a general cognitive ability test that placed me in the 98% percentile of the population. I don't know how accurate the test was; I know that there are better ones out there. Assuming it's accurate-ish I would be 2 standard deviations above the mean. I have also been described as a genius more than once, including by peers whose inte...