 "Dumbing yourself down" around your peers?
tokenadult: As Richard Rusczyk says, "If ever you are by far the best, or the most interested, student in a classroom, then you should find another classroom."http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Resources/AoPS_R_A_Calcul...That generalizes to how to live in adult life. Seek out the smartest people you can find, and spend time interacting with them.This, of course, is what I like about HN. My happiest time of social life growing up was two years in junior high in Minnesota in which I was "tracked" with mostly very bright fellow students. Most of the rest of my life I've been trying to regain a social circle like that. Now I'm most of the way back to where I was almost four decades ago, with lots of friends who are plainly very smart, who get my jokes, and who understand my vocabulary.