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... See more
Sherryx.comYou’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.
Very smart people tend to be weird since they insist on thinking everything through for themselves.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
If you believe that up until now you’ve somehow managed to fool people into thinking you’re smarter or more talented than you “really” are, then what’s your number one fear going to be? Being found out, right? Perpetually waiting to be “outed” as an impostor is stressful and exhausting.
Valerie Young • The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It
Consequently the man whose sole concern with the world is that it shall admire him is not likely to achieve his object. But even if he does, he will not be completely happy, since human instinct is never completely self-centered, and the narcissist is limiting himself artificially just as truly as is the man dominated by a sense of sin.
Bertrand Russell • The Conquest of Happiness
But that is not how the mind works. First of all, the mind doesn’t truly care about “success”; it just wants to feel loved and then it mistakenly assumes that that is what “success” will bring. Second, whether or not your life feels “lame” is really a matter of how earnestly you pay attention to the world, rather than how much “success” y
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