Why aren't smart people happier?

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[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Truly smart people are happy because they are smart enough to get themselves into a good position in life.

Socially inept kids embrace academia and book learning to try to make themselves feel better about their ineptitude then become sad, lonely adults with lots of qualifications.

[–]fschmidt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You must be female. In college I was considered a jock because my friends were all jocks and I spent half my time working out or playing sports. And I had plenty of male friends. I spend the other half of my time in the library reading original papers in computer science and math. Nerds hated me because they viewed me as a freak. Of course I was incel. Later I became quite successful in business. But I was increasingly miserable as I watched the world go to hell.