An Intelligence Hack from the World's Smartest Man

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New research has shown that a fascination with celebrity gossip could indicate heightened intelligence.

Huge for me personally if true. 

It’s not that the tabloids make you smarter. It’s that if you’re ALREADY smart (as all of you are), skimming through the tabloids could be a good use of your time. 

This sounds like the kind of evidence I would fabricate to make myself feel better about the joy Tom Holland and Zendaya’s recent engagement brought me.

So don’t take it from me… seriously. 

Take it from Younghoon Kim, the 35-year old who currently holds the world’s highest recorded IQ. 

Younghoon scored a 276 on the official IQ test. The threshold to qualify as a “genius” is 140, and the average adult comes in around 100. 

I fear second place wasn’t even close. 

When Kim isn’t working in neuroscience, finance and biomedical engineering, he’s building spaceships listening to K-Pop and Taylor Swift. 

With an IQ that high, one would assume that Kim uses pop culture as a way to escape his constant brilliant and burdening thoughts… but that’s actually not the case.

For the world’s smartest man, celebrity lives are “a form of art experience” and “a form of inspiration.”

"Not only are the celebrities really creative, they're also helping us think of new ideas and new ways to express ourselves," he explained.

• You can read a marketing book, or you can watch a Dunkin’ campaign, start to finish, on Instagram.

• You can sit around a conference table and dream about how to sell out an event, or you can study the calculated moves of Taylor Swift. 

• You can take a human psychology course, or you can watch Bravo for an hour and see how human brains actually work (and sometimes don’t). 

Pop culture consumption will never replace the need for academia, but it’s an overlooked and underrated place to find real life examples of principles you study demonstrated in the wild. 

The best part is… it takes an elevated level of understanding to make these productive connections out of otherwise unhelpful content.

If it comes naturally to you right now, lean in and feel like the smarty pants that you are.

If it’s harder for you to connect the dots and learn anything from a Nike ad campaign, it’s nothing that can’t be mastered with a little practice.

You know you love me.

Xoxo, Gossip Girl The Salesgirls

Because I am only human and just a girl, I had to know my own score so I took the IQ test here.

You have to pay $1.95 to see your results, but if I had to answer questions like this one…

… by God, I was getting my results for better or worse.

I won’t share my IQ, but what I will share is that chimpanzees have actually scored better in the numerical reasoning portions of the test.

I’m a creative, relax. Have fun my little brainiacs and I’ll see you later on TMZ.