Justin_Criner_7352 Scribbled:

intelligent people actually can be happy, however, I just wrote on the 8 steps to be unhappy. It might help you if you want to check it out. www.wordpress.com/alwaysdeveloping

DinfosTK Scribbled:

Having always been counted among the hoi polloi of inferior beings, I tend to think in simple terms. Adults are responsible for their children. Educate yourself about them. Adults are responsible for themselves. If you don't like where you are in life, move!

DinfosTK Scribbled:

Inferior thinking 101: people who don't know that they are unhappy are not unhappy. If you are unhappy, you know it, and if you choose to do nothing about it, you choose the consequence of inaction.

Crow34 Scribbled:

Very interesting, It makes a lot of sense. I would be courious about about affects on crime rates. I wonder what studies have been done. Thanks for this one.

Yannick_Roberts_5866 Scribbled:

Although it isn't inevitable, intelligence and social ineptitude does have some sort of relations as stated, you've really hit the nail on it's head, as to the profound reasons why this happens. I've also realize a strong bond between intelligence and competition, a strange mix of vanity, and maybe the reason intelligent people has such elitist manner towards the lower intelligent. I speak from e

JDDilley Scribbled:

I would agree with this article its well thought out, and makes sense. speaking as one of the "intelligent kids" through school i can say this seems accurate to what i grew up in. and i would agree with hemingway's quote. its useful but definatly not happy to be intelligent (In my opinion). good article

Builder Scribbled:

is reading Again, everyone, I apologize for Scribd cutting off the second page of the article. It was not done by my choice or with my blessing. Scribd seems unable to correct the problem even though I have informed them about it many times since August 30, 2009. The full version of the article may be found, on Scribd, at Why Intelligent People Tend to Be Unhappy (full version)

michaelynch Scribbled:

I don't think we have the same idea of intelligence. To me, Intelligence applies to the social world. I do agree however that intellectuals have a disadvantage because of the public's norms.

Builder Scribbled:

David, intelligence develops most often in a "social" setting as well, such as in a school classroom, a meeting room, or even by being among a group watching the evening news on television. Input is always individual, though the setting is usually with more than one person. The problem is that we do not actively teach social skills and emotional skills the way we do intellectual skills and physica

carolannaugustus Scribbled:

I enjoyed reading this and I also have ideas on spirituality, overpopulation and communication tools. carol

davidterrell80 Scribbled:

As I examine your paradigm here, and consider my own past, I wonder if you've considered your "four streams" in terms of how they are acquired, developed or improved. Unless I'm mistaken, intelligence is the only one that is usually done solo, (or possibly in a group set for the purpose) while the other three are easily capable of enhancement in a informal group setting.

42istheanswer Scribbled:

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 :-)

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sowhatkvlt Scribbled:

I don't know if I am the only one who feels this, but I think 'intelligent' people are unhappy because they think just too much about everything. I think that every human being wants happiness in every second they live. And when they don't, they just forget about it. They tend to be unhappy only when something bad has happened or there is a good reason to be unhappy. Whereas, depressed people feel unhappy all the time, for no reason at all. Most of them know that, but can't stop it. Thoughts like, why do the things I am doing right now, or why not do the things I really want to do disturb them. And when they are happy, they are way too happy, like getting a drug-like euphoria when just feeling the wind, getting that old feeling of pleasure, of nothing, of the past, or something else. But this sort of pleasure is very short, and is very addictive, which leads the person to crave for it time and again, either by trying to think about it, or doing irrational stuffs like smoking, doing drugs, wandering around, talking to oneself, or trying to gain ecstasy from mere music, etc. These people are pleasure-hungry I reckon. And whenever they don't get it, they are unhappy. The important thing is, this unhappiness is fed to them by themselves and nobody else. Like, the inability to function properly socially, carry out essential daily activities etc. They also tend to be helpless when something goes wrong, either big or minute, like depression may get stronger when one's TV is broken, or somebody doesn't return something belonging to him/her, or unexpected behavior by colleagues (good or bad) in workplaces....... (sorry I can't express myself properly, but my deadline is that, a lot of intelligent people are depressed, and they see the world in a total different perspective than a normal person would do, and it would be impossible for an average person to know what an intelligent one is going through.