Originally Posted by Val
Originally Posted by JonLaw
Intimidation purposes and to explain that you *did* consider yourself superior to them and that this simply reinforced it?

Did you really believe that you were superior to them, or were you just trying to prove it to yourself?

I think it was more that I had no identity except that I was superior (read more intelligent) to others, so it was pretty much my core identity at that time (in school). I used my intelligence like a sledgehammer.

My father was always annoyed that I thought I was better than other people, although he helped to create that in the first place.

I discarded that identity, but never replaced it with anything else. Life as competition really doesn't work in the adult world since there really isn't anything to "win" anymore.