You’re not “high iq”, your obsessive introspection is stopping you from being authentic and crippling you with a false sense of superiority that you’re too important to enjoy the small things in life, too esoteric for the smallfolk to understand, too proud to be happy, and in the end you win the prize of misery and loneliness—lonely not because you’re too intellectual but because most people see past how ridiculous your whole shtick is, being “so smart” that you can’t even enjoy yourself. You’re miserable because you think suffering from self-consciousness is the heavy crown of being “high iq”, so you take delight in your woes while secretly resenting or envying those who can just live and be without taking things so seriously. And so, you self-sabotage because you think you deserve your unhappiness. In the end, you get exactly what you deserve.
You’re not “high iq”, your obsessive introspection is stopping you from being authentic and crippling you with a false sense of superiority that you’re too important to enjoy the small things in life, too esoteric for the smallfolk to understand, too proud to be happy, and in the end you win the prize of misery and loneliness—lonely not because you’re too intellectual but because most people see past how ridiculous your whole shtick is, being “so smart” that you can’t even enjoy yourself. You’re miserable because you think suffering from self-consciousness is the heavy crown of being “high iq”, so you take delight in your woes while secretly resenting or envying those who can just live and be without taking things so seriously. And so, you self-sabotage because you think you deserve your unhappiness. In the end, you get exactly what you deserve.
And third, using your “higher faculties” doesn't always leave you better off. As I wrote recently, smart people aren’t happier. That’s partly because people have all sorts of wrong theories about the things that make them happy, so all their smarty-pants scheming is in vain. In fact, sometimes thinking harder actually makes people worse at figuring... See more
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... See moreIchiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Unfortunately, most writers aren’t aware of the value of their own skills. To be honest, most people in life don’t know the value of their own skills. We all exist in our own little bubble, and get so used to the things we do and know, that we don’t even stop to consider how these skills or insights could be valuable for someone else. Since it’s “c
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