Posted Thursday, April 28, 2022
3y
INTP
Aries
Do you ever ponder on the correlation between high intellect and unhappiness?
Do you ever wonder if you're not capable of true happiness for long? Because your brain automatically breaks everything down, as it hyper analyzes everything it can, turning the human experience into an objective or philosophical wellspring of intricate knowledge, that can come with depressing realizations and new schemas, that I believe, from hardened experience, that our primitive human brain is not meant for a hyper sense of consciousness. Do you ever just want to be completely average? Not even capable of wondering what's beyond the horizon.... Sometimes I do... Id rather be a dumb farmer who has a ridiculous amount of kids... and put all my energy into loving and nurturing my family...
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In studies, intelligence is strongly positively correlated with happiness. High IQ is associated with better daily living habits, income, health, and neurotic symptoms. Intelligence gives you a better ability to get educated, stay healthy, and set yourself up financially for a better life. Money and healthy habits can't buy happiness but they prevent a lot of problems that make you unhappy.
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INFP
Taurus
Just thinking and overthinking bring out multiple possibilities into future and future possibilities always tends to be bad cause we are made that way our thinking is built for expecting the worse. So in the true happiness is gained only by ignoring every aspects that happens around us
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3y
INTJ
Leo
I'm curious to know if there's a correlation, but I think your feelings are probably personal to you. I know I've spent hundreds (maybe thousands) of hours pacing back and forth in my apartment (and even my parents' home before I went to college) while trying to figure out all the things I believe are important in the world. Eventually I turned all my best ideas into a "life philosophy" that gives me meaning and purpose. It's all a matter of how you use that awesome brain of yours
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ISTP
Gemini
Ignorance is bless. More and more you know, more and more you understand how fücked the world is (due to pple)
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INFP
Sagittarius
I don't think about that ever. I think it'll just make me unhappy.
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3y
INFP
Libra
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3y
INTP
Virgo
Ignorance is a fool's paradise.
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3y
INFJ
The more you know and think, the more questions you have. Certainties turn out to be illusions, and you're only made aware of more challenges ahead and missed opportunities behind. Try not to get at least a little depressed over that. Sometimes I feel like high intelligence might as well be a mental disorder.
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3y
INFJ
Aquarius
Thinking and overthinking - is it a gift or a curse?
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3y
ENFP
Pisces
I feel like it doesn't matter how smart you are...but more about how much thinking you really want to do. Once the brain reaches the point where it can begin thinking about the more philosophical questions in life, it is up to the individual for whether they dove down the rabbit hole or not. I personally choose to avoid diving in unless someone else dives with me...but I think desire trumps brain power in this case
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3y
INTP
Aries
Cursed with the ability to see problems, patterns of regression, hypocrisy of logic, and yet an urge to solve them. Yet being largely powerless to affect any change. Ignorance truly is bliss. It's like somebody in an otherwise happy marriage that doesn't know their partner is cheating on them. They're happier not knowing, or pretending they don't know, or pretending it is it a problem. At the same time I wouldn't be where I am if I wasn't such a good problem solver. Answers typically come easily, or I have the critical thinking and background to find a solution to literally anything.... Except people. People are ignorant, prejudice, scared, put off by our otherness. The only way I know how to really interact with people is oversharing or helping problem solve, if I can't do either of these things I feel useless.
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3y
ENFJ
Pisces
I think that people can acquire knowledge through Reading and empirical research, because empirical evidence is always deemed true as it's most definitely factual. Now because people can acquire such knowledge have you ever thought that maybe people with acquired intelligence are sometimes misunderstood or maybe not understood at all because of the level of education and or intelligence. This would mean that because some people are more qualified than others in the scholastic aspect of themselves this should mean that in order to talk to what society deems as a regular joe they would have to chew up their language and make it simple enough that a baby can understand. I guess my point of the matter is that the more that you acquire knowledge the easier it is to see through social situations norming standards and or people. Because it has typically been the analytical people who are not contempt with just anyone but simply because not just anyone can understand somebody with knowledge. Therefore I theoretically believe that the more we acquire knowledge the more picky we get in regards to a relationship because we look for such a perfect relationship with all of the boxes checked that in reality doesn't exist. It has been proven in fact that a little asymmetry can make something seem perfect without it truly being symmetrical, the same thing can be said about relationships . Imperfections are what can make a relationship almost perfectly balanced. It shouldn't matter if we are average intelligent or below average we should just realize that sometimes it is okay to let off our guard and have imperfections in our life.
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3y
ENTJ
Taurus
No happiness is a choice. This is where accountability is important in your daily life. The only person that can charge the course your on is you. If you value intellect over love and find things boring that others don't that will make you less approachable... which again is up to you to change. Intelligence is only isolating if you let it be sometimes you gotta prioritize different things based off your goals. Instead of random facts, statistics and other pointless information look up goals you can actually reach at some point in your life.
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3y
INTP
Taurus
There's a reason they say ignorance is bliss.
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3y
INTP
Taurus
Yes but no, the thing with that mostly is isolation and it's caused because "no one" understands a genius (talking about real genius, like those all who committed su1c1d3 and having a high IQ) And so, if there is a way to don't be lonely but still have a "high intellect" then it's not a direct correlation but it's a better correlation with loneliness
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3y
INTJ
Cancer
100%. Overthinking is a guaranteed recipe for unhappiness. We're not meant to overanalyze stuff, but that's what happens when you're highly intelligent or you have anxiety. If you have both, it's quite the nasty cocktail.
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3y
INTJ
Aries
All the time and I believe there is a solution to it but the availability isn't as accessible yet. That's why I am opening clinics that specializes in anxieties and depression.
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3y
INFP
Aries
Sometimes it‘s like an downgrade from evolution…. the actual ability to overthink your action same as reaction makes your life a irrational and useless thing as that. You may have the strategies to come up with a living that‘s appriciated in human culture, but how much is it worth if everything is worthless out of this perspective …
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