1. Smart people have excessively high standards.
Having standards is not a bad thing at all. It keeps you on the path to happiness and success. However, having too high standards can be a problem.
Smart people tend to know what they want out of life, and they refuse to settle for less. At the same time, their high standards extend to all areas of life: work, relationships, and life goals.
In fact, such requests can be very difficult to satisfy. Therefore, smart people are constantly haunted by a sense of disappointment in their own achievements or in the work that does not allow them to move forward. Their inflated demands on themselves can also have a significant impact on their relationships with others.
2. Smart people are often incapable of accepting things as they are, but focus on what they should ideally be.
If you are experiencing a state of happiness, your mind is usually entirely in the present moment. Your attention is then completely attuned to what is happening to you now.
3. Smart people don't know how to derive satisfaction from the present moment because they are constantly trying to find some meaning.
In a very intelligent person, knowledge takes precedence over awareness. His mind is incapable of getting satisfaction from the present moment: it adds or subtracts from it, clarifies or restates, understands or interprets, just wanders off somewhere far away, and so on. The mind tries to "edit" the present moment and find meaning in it, because the moment itself is not enough for it.
This dissatisfaction pushes the mind to work desperately to retrieve all the accumulated information and memories that would enable it to make the moment "even better.
And during this process, the mind behaves impatiently, tempestuously, or confused because its discoveries prove insufficient or it can't find anything at all. And because its current resources prove insufficient, it begins to work even harder: reading, writing, searching the Internet, and just thinking.
4. Happiness is a mind that settles down; intelligence is a mind that refuses to settle down.
For a happy mind, what is is enough. Such a person does not seek to change the present; he simply accepts it and acts on the circumstances. The overly intelligent person, on the other hand, is not at all easy to please, so he will never be able to understand what the happy mind is so happy about and will accuse it of laziness.
5. Most intelligent people are constantly obsessing about something.
Highly intelligent individuals have a tendency to constantly analyze and investigate everything to the point of exhaustion. They need to weigh the pros and cons to make any decision. This tendency often leads them to depression.
Moreover, the answers they receive to their agonizing questions can be not only unpleasant and frustrating, but can have a devastating effect on the thinkers themselves.
"The ability to observe without evaluation is the highest form of intelligence,"
Jiddu Krishnamurti.
6. If the result of action is worse than anticipated, intelligent people feel deeply disappointed.
Actions do not always produce the same programmed result: intelligent people have too much faith in the power of their intellect and its ability to predict the consequences of their actions.
7. Constant unrelenting self-criticism.
Most intelligent people have rather low self-esteem, and the reason for this is the constant criticisms they make of themselves.
They are unable to accept their shortcomings because they think they must conform to the highest standards. This is why they are often in a gloomy state of mind.
8. They seek a deeper level of being.
Most intelligent people are able to distinguish good from bad, yet they are unable to accept negative human qualities or treat them too harshly. Awareness of the harsh truth is painful and overwhelming to them because most intelligent people, first and foremost, look within themselves.
They cannot live without constant reflection and evaluation of their results-it is their second nature. Highly intelligent people have a questioning mind that constantly asks questions and makes them feel anxious.
9. Few people truly understand them.
Communication is the greatest source of happiness. We always try to share our anxieties and worries with others, which makes it easier for us to deal with them.
Even the most intelligent person needs someone to share his worries with, thereby easing his burden. But it can be very difficult for a highly intelligent person to find an interlocutor who has the same depth as himself.
10. High intelligence often leads to psychological problems.
People with high IQs suffer from a special type of disorder that makes them constantly analyze everything and ask questions. And this path usually brings them neither happiness nor psychological health.
The human mind is a very complicated thing and not fully understood. Over-analysis and a constant sense of isolation is something that often accompanies intelligent people throughout their lives.
"The happiness of intelligent people is the rarest thing I have ever met,"
Ernest Hemingway.
11. Happiness is daily hard work.
Smart people should not give up on the company of others so easily. It is for this reason that many intelligent and sensitive people feel so unhappy.
It is only natural that most intelligent people have quirks and strange hobbies. But that's no reason to stop hanging out with people who are not as perceptive or sensitive.
12. Intelligent people can be quite awkward in society.
Ordinary people often take advantage of the fact that intellectuals find themselves unfit for society. Therefore, intellectuals often find themselves under fire of criticism, while people of average intelligence, on the contrary, are celebrating victory at this time.
13. Intelligent people often fear that they may lose their abilities.
Ironic taunts and sarcastic outbursts from others usually catch them off guard. Subsequent analysis of their own behavior only adds to their sadness.
"All men who excelled in philosophy, poetry, art, and politics-even Socrates and Plato-had a melancholy disposition; in some even melancholy passed into the stage of illness.
Many intelligent people do not achieve great career successes and may even be in the subordination of people less educated and intellectual. Some intellectuals, especially creative individuals, even break down under pressure from circumstances and others or fall victim to manipulation.
"I am so clever that sometimes I do not understand a single word of what I say,"
Oscar Wilde.
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