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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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Taurus

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It's a curse having a constant craving for information knowing that there is no possible way to achieve the level of knowledge we would like to obtain, it's almost like an addiction.

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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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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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You are at the edge of the abyss. I hope you are intelligent and patient enough to leap across that. I tried and failed but getting closer everytime. I feel my finger tips just touched the edge of the next level of wisdom and then comically failed to grab on...

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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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Gemini

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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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Cancer

Wtf dude!!dont call a farmer who is feeding your depressed life dumb. Maybe use your intellect to improve farming conditions in Africa.

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Sagittarius

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I don't think about that ever. I think it'll just make me unhappy.

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Aquarius

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Oh yes... Thinking about it every time, even overthinking. Just want to be "dumb and happy" finally.

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Libra

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Virgo

Ignorance is a fool's paradise.

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Capricorn

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Yes all the time. With some help you can figure out how to calm your brain and enjoy the moments you have and understand life too. Practice mindfulness it's so helpful.

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INFJ

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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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Virgo

Yeah more RAM, more multitasking, more stress, more problems. I think intelligent people can lead peaceful lives, it just takes letting go of a lot of heart junk that's eating your processing power.

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Virgo

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I understand and rate to this, the best advice I can give is to just stop yourself from overthinking once you start. It’s okay to think things through, but not to hurt yourself ovethinking tiny details.

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Gemini

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too self aware to be happy

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Aquarius

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Thinking and overthinking - is it a gift or a curse?

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I know exactly what you mean, dude. Ignorance isnt bliss, but it seems necessary to just be content.

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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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I suggest watching some YouTube videos about the vagaries of modern farming equipment.

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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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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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Taurus

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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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Scorpio

Ponder it? I live it, bro!

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Aquarius

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Nah im dumb af and still sad,just bc i love to complain

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Aries

if you can't understand emotional intelligence, even with all your brains, you still have a lot learning to do. also probably learning the wrong things. even if you can break everything down, there are some things like love and trust that you will never be able to completely decipher.

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INTP

Taurus

There's a reason they say ignorance is bliss.

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Cancer

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I agree. I have a lot on my mind, and I don't even know how to put it to good use.

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INTP

Taurus

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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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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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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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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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Then why am I stupid and unhappy?

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