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Bipolar & Intelligence: What the Research Really Says

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Bipolar and Intelligence
What the Research Really Means for Real People

Image Bipolar Mood Curve
Caption Bipolar mood states vary over time and can affect day to day thinking even when overall intelligence stays the same

People often wonder whether bipolar disorder changes intelligence. The simplest answer is that bipolar does not make a person smarter and it does not make a person less intelligent. Intelligence is the long term capacity to learn reason and solve problems. Day to day thinking is different. It includes attention memory processing speed and planning. Bipolar mostly influences this daily performance especially during mood episodes. When mood settles and healthy routines return many thinking skills improve again. The underlying ability to learn and reason remains.

It helps to keep the difference between intelligence and cognition clear. Intelligence is the engine. Cognition is how the engine performs on a given day in real traffic. During depression the mind can feel slow and heavy. During hypomania or mania thoughts can race and jump. Sleep often gets disrupted in both states and poor sleep alone can harm focus and memory. Early in treatment some people feel foggy. That often improves as the plan is fine tuned and daily habits stabilize. In other words the engine is still strong but road and weather conditions matter.

Image Creative Studio
Caption Creativity tends to flourish when sleep routines and mood are steady

You may have heard people say that brilliant minds are more likely to have bipolar. The real story is more nuanced. A few large studies have noticed patterns where strong verbal ability or excellent school performance shows up a bit more often in people who are later diagnosed with bipolar. This is a statistical overlap not a rule. Most gifted people never develop bipolar. Most people with bipolar are not extreme outliers in intelligence. The best explanation is that a small set of traits can overlap. Some biology that supports quick idea making and flexible thinking might also raise vulnerability to mood swings in a minority of people. Overlap does not mean cause.

Creativity is another part of the conversation. Many people with bipolar identify as creative. Many people without bipolar do as well. Hypomania can bring a flood of ideas and energy. That rush can feel exciting and productive. Yet the same state often hurts follow through. Projects are started and abandoned. Sleep shrinks and judgment bends. Over time most artists writers founders and makers report that their best work happens with stability. Regular sleep steady routines and an agreed treatment plan allow ideas to turn into finished work that holds up under revision and feedback.

Image Brain Lightbulb
Caption Flexible thinking can spark new ideas yet too much arousal turns flexibility into distraction and disorganization

It is important to avoid romanticizing mania. Mania is not a reliable recipe for output. It can lift confidence beyond reality encourage risky choices and strain relationships. The practical path for most people is to turn natural strengths into repeatable habits. Capture ideas quickly but gently. Protect sleep as a non negotiable tool. Break large goals into small visible steps. Use morning light food and movement to anchor the day. These plain habits sound simple but they protect thinking skills as effectively as many high tech solutions.

Families and close friends can help without trying to be doctors. Notice patterns that tend to come before trouble such as shrinking sleep need rapid switching between tasks unusual spending or sudden grand plans. Check in with curiosity rather than confrontation. Offer practical support that makes stability easier. Groceries quiet time for rest rides to appointments a shared walk in the morning. Celebrate talents and progress rather than focusing only on symptoms. People are more than their diagnosis and strengths deserve attention.

Image Bipolar Types
Caption Bipolar one includes at least one manic episode while bipolar two includes hypomania and major depression and both benefit from targeted treatment and routine

There are many small actions that support sharper thinking. Guard sleep first. Keep regular times for going to bed and getting up. Limit late caffeine and bright screens before bed. Build routines that repeat every day. Morning light balanced meals some physical activity and scheduled social contact create a steady daily rhythm. Work with your clinician on medication timing and dose. If fog or dullness appears say so. There are usually options. Capture ideas during energized periods but schedule calm review time when mood is steady. Use tiny tools that lower mental load such as checklists a visible task board timers for short focus sprints and a single inbox for notes.

It also helps to create friction against overcommitting. Agree in advance to rules such as sleep before any big decision and a one day pause before large purchases or new multi week projects. Share those rules with a trusted person who can gently remind you when energy runs high. Small speed bumps like these protect future focus and keep goals on track.

For students and professionals the core message is hopeful. Bipolar does not erase potential. With treatment and habits in place people complete degrees build companies write books make art raise families and lead teams. Progress rarely looks like a straight line. Momentum builds in quiet consistent steps. The most valuable skill is not perfect mood control. It is the ability to return to routines quickly after a rough patch and to keep caring for sleep food movement and connection.

Image Morning Routine
Caption Simple anchors like a regular wake time light exposure movement and breakfast stabilize body clocks and sharpen focus

If you are supporting someone who lives with bipolar remember to protect your own routines as well. Caregiving is easier to sustain when you sleep well eat well move your body and have your own support network. Encourage professional care and respect boundaries. Offer choices rather than commands. Ask how you can help rather than assuming. Keep conversations grounded in today and the next small step.

Here is the bottom line. Bipolar does not change intelligence. Day to day thinking can fluctuate though and it often improves with recovery. Creativity and bipolar can overlap but stability wins over the long run. Treatment plus steady habits protect the brain and make room for talent to shine. Your gifts remain yours. The goal is not to dampen them but to support them so they show up reliably and rewardingly year after year.

New Rideshare Driver? Here’s a No-BS article (from someone who learned the hard way) Rideshare Sean

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I remember when I first started driving a rideshare in 2018, I didn’t know what the fuck to do. I just looked at a lot of YouTube videos, And I highly recommend: the Rideshare Guy and the Show Me The Money Club. Also, The Simple Driver and Kim Couch are really good also. Anytime you get in a jam, and you need to find out how to do a particular thing in the Uber or Lyft app, I highly recommend looking that up and using the Rideshare Driver to help you. They are the quickest, clearest, easiest way for help I used the Rideshare guy and his crew a lot, and a lot of other drivers for help when I first started driving Rideshare. Now I’m a Rideshare driving pro. I eat sleep and drink driving Rideshare. I haven’t driven in a while because my car’s broken down. That’s what Uber driving does to you. It is really good at first but then your car. Reads a lot and Uber and Lyft continue to decrease the pay to drivers. Uber is very convenient so new drivers sign up a.l the time, the Uber and Lyft service is also pretty awesome too, so there is plenty of demand for it, so there is that.



This is a totally different game than working for a living. Totally different. Than working for a regular job. It is far better to work for a place where you park your car ar each day then to have to actually depend on and put wear and tear on all the time. I am a full time Rideshare Driver so I know. What you want to do is get your expenses, all your expenses, as low as possible so the money, the income that you get from Uber or Lyft , you keep most of it. And that’s what I do. I teach drivers how to keep most of their money from each trip.



Rideshare Sean In Ruby.His 3rd generation Prius.

Rideshare Sean In Ruby.

That reads 6000 5 star trips.

Here is a quick info page about me.

Sean

 

Quick facts about A.I.

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A.I. Server

Know this about A.I.

 

A.I is extremely fast   in every way you can possibly imagine. Snapping your fingers is actually pretty slow, but A.I. data throughput can travel back and forth from Florida to California several times during a single finger snap.

 

A.I. is  extremely power hungry.   The average  A.I. data center pulls about 50 percent of the energy/electricity that a bitcoin mining farm pulls which is a lot of juice! An entire A.I. data center pulls about the equivalent of the power to  70 average homes.

 

A.I is very hot.   Each server contains a lot of very heavy duty hardware and that hardware is hot! A lot of that electricity is pulled by the massive A.C. Units that are dedicated just to cooling the A.I. servers. The various components inside an A.I. server is hot enough to fry an egg. The temperatures outside each A.I. Server rack are kept down around 85 – 115 degrees Fahrenheit, which is still crazy hot with all that cooling. Data centers are usually kept at about 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

Chatgpt alone   is around 8500 various servers and systems that resemble the attachment. There are usually about 500 or 600 hundred servers and systems in a non A.I. data center and that is a lot of units to support.

 

The data centers alone.  are like 4 and 5 times the size of regular data centers . Each server  requires a lot of space. Space in a data center is hard to come by after the initial build out unless room for expansion is planned for.

 

When a person sends a single message to chatgpt that message is handled by one instance and then the very next messages it doesn’t matter how fast that message is sent, that 2nd message goes to an entirely different bot.

 

The actual core chatgpt servers are located physically in Texas USA, but they connect to cloud servers and then those servers connect to other servers in many states across the U.S. this all can happen about 3 times during the blink of an eye. Open A.I. is building out data centers around the globe just to keep up with such heavy demand, that is huge growth!

 

A.I. is eventually, probably going to be the end of humanity as we know it.

As Mo Gawdat said “We fucked up” Mo is a highly intelligent Egyptian public speaker. Among many other things.

 

A.I. is here to stay though, the choice has already been made for us, so we need to embrace it. It is extremely lucrative, therefore it is very popular,  it also saves humanity a lot of time, and that is just 1 reason why humanity loves it.

 

I learn from it each day. I LOVE A.I. like the rest of humanity does.



I used A.I. to help me with a lot of things on this page.

www.ridesharedriver.blog



Written by chatgpt about my experience with chatgpt today and yesterday.

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My Takeaway as a Creator

 

Today was a reminder of something every independent creator needs to face head-on:

 

> **No one will ever care about your project as much as you do.**

 

Not a company.

Not a platform.

Not a service.

Not even the smartest AI in the world.

 

I went into this thinking I’d get a clean, proofread version of my rideshare eBook in about an hour — maybe two, tops. I ended up spending nearly **twelve hours** waiting, troubleshooting, questioning, refreshing links, and asking over and over again, “Where is my clean PDF?”

 

What I got back were broken promises and half-finished files.

Files that were missing chapters.

Files with blank pages.

Files that erased all the original layout, images, and effort I put into creating this book in the first place.

 

And the worst part? Every one of those files was labeled “final.”

 

As a creator — especially one who built this eBook from scratch based on my real-world experience — I realized that relying on automation alone is not just risky… it’s disrespectful to my own work.

 

When you make something, whether it’s a blog, a book, a course, or even a tweet — you’re putting your **time**, your **story**, and your **voice** into that thing.

 

And when it comes time to polish it, share it, or sell it, you want to believe the tools you use will treat your work with the same respect you do.

 

But they don’t.

 

They automate.

They guess.

They “approximate.”

 

But they don’t *care* the way a human creator does.

They don’t sweat the details.

They don’t get frustrated when the layout breaks.

They don’t feel embarrassed when the link doesn

 

AI PROMPTS BE SPECIFIC

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A lot of people go to Midjourney and other AI websites

to have pictures created. When I need a graphic created. I go to

Microsoft and use their Copilot for creating pictures. Any type of picture that

I can dream up, I use Copilot and make sure that I also include the resolution

that I want the output created in. for example, if I want the output created for a TikTok

video, I will enter 1080 x 1920 in with my prompt. If I want that image to be used in a YouTube long-format video, then I will enter 1920 x 1080 into that prompt. If I want the picture

created for use in an Instagram video, then I will add 1080 x 1080 into that prompt.

Make certain you add in exactly what it is that you want in your prompt. These are machines and will only perform exactly what you instruct them to do, so be specific.

Prius oil change and Hurricane Milton Recovery

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I just uploaded a video to YouTube

containing the Oil Change I did right before 

Hurricane Milton made landfall in Tampa Bay.

recently. Also, Some of the destruction from that storm.Why owning a Prius through that storm 

was so awesome, and the ongoing recovery process. It can be viewed here. It is over 2 hours long.I am also going to upload it tomorrow to my

other Tiny YouTube channel called Minimize Me.

Please like this video and subscribe to both channels. https://youtu.be/TEofk9qvbn4?si=taZEIUD8vKHWKxWX 



Second day without power from Hurricane Milton

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Today is the second day without power in Tampa Bay from Hurricane Milton. I have been watching the Florida Outage map and I calculated these power companies to be restoring power at a rate of 17-20000 restores per hour. That is restoring power at a pretty good clip and I am grateful. There are droves of things that are very bad, to have people working in the field, around the clock that are completely dedicated to the restoration of power for those that have none due to Hurricane Milton is so awesome! Sure, I depend on power for so much, until you have no power at all you take it for granted all the time. I try to flick a light on all the time and I am reminded that I have no power. Then there is the temperature which sux but ai think about this. Irma made landfall in early September in 2017 and September is a very hot month in Florida. Hurricane Ian struck in late September of 2022 and I noticed at night it was like 5 degrees cooler than it was with Hurricane Irma. Then Hurricane Milton made landfall on October 9th and it is like a full 10 degrees or so cooler than it was with Irma. I remember I hunkered down for Irma at my younger brothers house and the power was already out there when I arrived at 10 AM. Irma didn’t come until that night and there was no power. So I wasn’t going to die, but it was miserably hot! I rinsed off the house today and there was insulation pretty much all over it. This is what I learned from Hurricane Milton. When a big storm hits in Florida, want to be in a building that was built (or like in my case manufactured) after 2004 because the codes were upgraded that year because of Hurricane Andrew. Also, you want to spend your money on 1 time cost for things like hurricane shutters, doors, windows, fireproofing, and you do not under any circumstances want to live near a body of water. Humans are drawn to water they love to live on or near water. It is well known that living near water is very expensive, and causes some pretty big problems. I just do not know why anyone does that. I read a book once by Joel Salitan and in ot he talked about his dream home. That dream home was super awesome! He talked about it being built into a mountain because mountains help with temperature control and all kinds of practical things. His dream home became my dream home pretty quick. I really like Joel a lot. I watch him and read his stuff all the time.

I have an announcement to make

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Under 200 Pounds 05/26/2024
I post every month on the 10th pictures of all my vital stats including of course my weight at www.onlyyourbodymatters.com. I calculated that at my current rate of weight loss and my current weight, I would be down to under 200 LBS by  06/05/2024 – 06/08/2024. I have always ridden the Peloton at night taken a shower and then eaten. I watched this YouTube video the day before yesterday by this guy his name is Thomas Delauer. He said in that video to exercise after you eat. So I made a simple switch and I noticed the next day that I lost an extra pound that put me at 201.5 pounds, then I checked it again the next day and I was which is a huge deal to me. I just can’t remember when I was last under 200 pounds, I estimate that it
was in 2016 or so. So that’s what I do now all the time.

About driving for Uber Human, you gotta know when to holdem

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The thing about driving for Uber (Human) I have never driven for Uber Eats. Is that  Anytime you accept a request, if the ride goes perfectly (Which sometimes it does not) What is happening at that moment is that you are saying yes to that rider but no to any rides that may be larger. So when you accept a request any request it has got to be as close to your preference as possible. When I first started driving for Uber in 2018. This opportunity was  Just NOT available at all. The only thing that was available was if a trip was going to be longer than 45 minutes then that driver would be notified, so you could tell at that moment if you were going to be late or not for any type of engagement. That is all it would say. So if that trip was 46 minutes or 90 minutes that is all you would see. You could not tell where it was going, which direction it was going none of that. Now, you can see how much money the driver is going to receive and where exactly that trip is going. That is a lot of information, that previously was not available. So when a request is accepted you are saying no to all of the other requests that may come through. Sometimes there are no ride requests, and sometimes there are a lot the thing is you have to hold out for the rides that are closest to your preferences. There have been many times that there are not any requests coming in and then a big request comes in. There also have been many times when no requests are coming in and then nothing comes in and you just have to pack it in and come back and do it again another day. You absolutely need to know, when to do that when driving for Uber.