 I found the careers with the highest IQ, that's right somebody did a study on the average IQ of common professions. So today we're going to be figuring out which professions are big brain and which ones are easy. That's right some egos are about to get crushed. Now not only is this interesting but it can also be a pretty good tool for you to pick your own profession because it's probably a good idea to go for a profession that's within your IQ bracket. That way you'll be in the sweet zone where you're not too bored but you're also not too stressed out either. Now just to explain this a little bit if you look at a graph of the IQ of everybody in society you're going to see that most people fall within 85 to 115 IQ about 68 percent of people to be exact. Now if you're above 130 IQ you are literally in the 98th percentile you're in the top 2 percent of intelligence and if you're above 145 IQ you're literally in the 99.9th percentile the top 0.1 percent. Now if you go to the actual study the way that they define different levels of IQ is 115 to 124 is above average, 125 to 134 is gifted, 135 to 144 is highly gifted, 145 to 154 is genius, 155 to 164 is also genius, and then 165 to 179 is high genius, 180 to 200 is highest genius, and then an IQ over 200 is unmeasurable genius aka Shane Hummus subscribers. With all joking aside let's get into this list so some common careers that are within the IQ range of 90 to 100 are going to be laborers, gardeners, miners, factory packers, and sorters. So these are basically tasks that are incredibly simple but sometimes they take a lot of patience and in many cases these are extremely repetitive tasks. So gardening is actually a lot of fun but it is repetitive and it takes a ton of patience and it doesn't take much in the way of intelligence to do these types of jobs. So a laborer for instance they might tell you to go and dig a hole. You know it's a very repetitive task, it's pretty labor intensive, but it doesn't take high levels of intelligence. So around the IQ level of 100 you have warehousemen, carpenters, cooks, bakers, small farmers, truck and van drivers. So a lot of these tasks are relatively physical as well and they also take a little bit more critical thinking. Right so it definitely takes skill to be a cook even like a lower level type cook and you might not want somebody with a very low IQ or somebody who doesn't have good critical thinking skills driving a farm tractor or a truck. But these are a lot of careers that still do take a good amount of patience and a lot of them are relatively physical as well. I have very little patience for stupidity. At 100 to 110 IQ you've got machine operators, shopkeepers, butchers, welders and sheet metal workers. Right so this is where you're getting into the skilled trades. These are still relatively physical but you do have to be pretty skilled. Something like machine operation or sheet metal work takes a lot of critical thinking and if you're a shopkeeper you're having to keep inventory and you're also leading people. So obviously you're going to have more responsibility, you're probably also going to make more money, but it is going to require more intelligence or critical thinking at least that's what the study says. Now at 110 to 120 IQ you get into foremen, clerks, telephone operators, salesmen, policemen and electricians. Now here you have some of the most skilled of the skilled trades. Some of the hardest ones to do for instance electrician is quite difficult and then you also have the people who are the managers of other people that are in the trades such as foremen. And then of course something like being a policeman or a salesman definitely takes higher levels of critical thinking. Right if you're trying to convince somebody to buy a product or if you are trying to catch a criminal after they committed a crime that is going to take higher levels of executive function. Now from 120 to 130 you've got some careers like school teachers, pharmacists, accountants, nurses, stenographers and managers. So now we're getting into more of the white collar work. Most of the other professions were sort of blue collar type jobs and white collar typically means that there's less physical labor. And for pharmacists, as an example I'm a pharmacist myself, you probably want the pharmacist who is in some cases prescribing, diagnosing or at the very least dispensing medications for yourself or your family members to be relatively smart. Right you want them to have really good reasoning skills. You probably want them to be relatively detailed and have a good memory and you just want them to be pretty sharp in general. Now same thing for accountants not only do they need to be really smart when it comes to the numbers but they also need to know how to interpret the law. Right and that's actually probably the more important part out of the two. And then of course you have managers. Typically managers are going to be smarter than the people that they're managing although there are many many exceptions to that as we all know. At the 130 plus IQ level you've got physicians, surgeons, lawyers, engineers, top civil servants, professors, and research scientists. So these are all major white collar positions and in many cases by definition you have to be a leader and a manager in these positions. So for instance if you're a doctor you are going to be leading and managing a bunch of other people around you whether it's the nurses or the technicians that you work with. If you're a scientist you are going to be leading and managing people who are working in your lab. And these are typically positions that require you to have a pretty good memory. You have to have really good reasoning skills and in some cases you have to have some pretty high level math skills as well. Now at the 150 plus IQ gigabrain level you have YouTubers such as myself, entrepreneurs, and politicians who pretend like they want to make your life better while they're actually just making themselves rich and secretly laughing at you. Just kidding the study didn't even go over 150 plus IQ but there's other studies that have been done and it does show that the higher the IQ very generally speaking the more money you make. For instance billionaires on average do have a higher IQ than millionaires and millionaires do have a higher IQ than non-millionaires. But some of the studies suggest that there is a point of diminishing return when it comes to IQs. So for instance what that basically means is somebody with maybe 130 to 150 IQ is just as likely to become a billionaire as somebody with 180 plus IQ. So there does seem to be a point of diminishing returns where the higher your IQ the less it matters when it comes to making more money. And I mostly focused on financial stuff but I also talked about work-life balance and things like that and you can check that video out by clicking right here.