I read about 3 pages of answers and I started thinking about a few things: The feeling of loneliness and not being understood seems to be one constant thread running through many of the responses. There is also an implicit observation being made that such intelligent people are few and far between and that majority of the folks one gets to interact with does not relish any deep and meaningful conversation. I certainly relate to these two points. However, my question is around identifying another person in the crowd who thinks similarly. If one has the capability to find another 'intelligent' person from the crowd, things would get much easier for both of them. I am making another assumption here that 'intelligent' people can get along well with each other! I would surely be interested in knowing the opinions of the group on this angle. One of the responses was highlighting the fact that intelligent people are unhappy because they *think* so much. Paralysis by analysis - presumably. I can again relate to this chain of thought. I have seen a number of people who can enjoy the same joke with the same vigor when they are hearing it for the tenth time... while I just cannot enjoy the joke even when I hear it for the second time because my mind has internalized it. That tosses out the option of having a 'good' sense of humour out of the window :) This applies to other aspects of life too. When my brain perceives something good (or bad) coming its way, it would by default think of all the possible scenarios which can happen in that case and evaluate options for those scenarios and would rationalize the underlying emotions by looking at the big picture. While this is purportedly good, what it ends up in is that when the event driving the feeling/emotion actually happens, I respond quite nuetrally as the brain has already internalized it. Again, this attitude amazes near and dear and doesn't really make me a popular person to hang out with! It would be really interesting if people can put out their opinions on how to deal with this problem. An intelligent crowd like this can surely deal with this challenge :-)