The smartest man in the world: This is how Christopher Langan lives, who is the most intelligent person on the planet

This 72-year-old is officially the smartest man in the world, but you'd never think it considering what he does for a living

Imagine the most intelligent man in the world. Now you are probably wondering if there is a person alive who can claim to be the smartest in the world?

Born into poverty, Christopher Langan showed high intelligence from an early age. In fact, he has one of the highest IQs ever recorded, somewhere between 190 and 210.

But Langan doesn't spend his days teaching at the faculty or overseeing national labs. Instead, "the smartest man in the world" lives a quiet life as a horse breeder, Telegraph reports.

Born on March 25, 1952, Christopher Michael Langan showed signs of above average intelligence from an early age. He spoke when he was only 6 months old, and he started reading when he was 3 years old.

When he turned five, Langan even began to question the existence of God. "It just turned out that I was a child genius," he says.

"My schoolmates saw me as the teacher's pet, a little ugly."

However, he was not a happy child, given that he experienced abuse from his mother's boyfriend, who regularly beat him and his two half-siblings.

"Living with him was like ten years in an army boot camp," recalls Langan, "but in a boot camp you don't get beaten with a garrison belt every day and the army doesn't have that extreme poverty."

Chris Langan's family was extremely poor, leaving him and his brother to fend for themselves on many occasions.

With a reported IQ of between 195 and 210, Chris Langan may be the smartest person in the world, despite dropping out of college and working as a farmer.

"To this day, I have never met anyone who suffered from childhood poverty like my family. We didn't have a matching pair of socks and our shoes were full of holes. We always wear the same clothes. "I remember me and my brothers stripping because we had nothing else to wear," Chris said.

Despite such adversity, Chris Langan continued to excel academically. By the time he was 12, he had learned everything his public school could teach him and began spending time on independent studies. Even then, he showed signs that he could one day become "the smartest person in the world."

“I learned advanced math, physics, philosophy, Latin and Greek, all of it,” recalls Langan, who could learn a language just by flipping through a textbook. He even got a perfect score on the test, even though he fell asleep during the test.

It also started working. And when Jack, his stepfather, tried to attack him one morning when he was 14, Chris fought back – kicking Jack out of the house for good.

Soon Christopher Langan prepared to go to college. But he would soon discover that intelligence did not always translate to success in the real world.

Christopher Langan went to Reed College hoping to study mathematics and philosophy. But when his mother didn't sign the form securing a full scholarship, he gave up.

He then went to Montana State, but only for a short time. Langan later said he got into a fight with a math teacher.

"I realized that I was being taught by people I could be a teacher for," he said.

So he dropped out of college and went East to work as a cowboy, construction worker, firefighter, fitness trainer and security guard.

When he was in his 40s, he earned just $6000 a year.

"On the one hand, you are an ordinary boy," he told foreign media. “You go to work, you do your job, you're kind and polite. In turn, you come home and start counting. You withdraw into your world and make it work in your favor.”

But the mind of the "smartest person in the world" continued to work. In his spare time, Christopher Langan tried to unravel the mysteries of the universe by developing a "theory of everything". He calls it the cognitive-theoretic model of the universe.

"It includes physics and natural sciences, but it also goes to a higher level. The level at which you can talk about all of science,” Langan explained, noting that CTMU can prove the existence of God.

However, "the smartest man in the world" doubts it will ever be read, published or taken seriously. He thinks his lack of academic credentials will continue to hold him back.

Although an investigation in 2020 found that Christopher Langan had an IQ between 195 and 210 (the average IQ is about 100), which would have given him one of the highest IQs in the world, “the most smart in the world” continues to lead a quiet life.

Today, he and his wife spend their days on a horse farm in Missouri. "Nobody knows anything about my IQ because I don't tell them," Langan explained.

But he kept his mind – and the minds of others – active. Christopher Langan and his wife founded the Meega Foundation in 1999, a non-profit organization for high-IQ people to share ideas outside of academia.

Langan is a truth teller and believes in many conspiracy theories.

But how does he see his great intelligence? To him, it's like everything in life – we're all lucky and we're all born with something of our own, and the "smartest person in the world" just happens to be gifted with a brilliant mind.

"Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be ordinary," he says. "Not that I would change anything. I just wonder sometimes.” /Telegraph/