| I do think that people with higher-than-average intelligence are more likely to be unhappy. Why? It has everything to do with expectations.
One of the greatest abilities of the human mind is to imagine. Aside from pure flights of fancy, imagination also allows us to extrapolate future outcomes. If we're not careful, we'll come to find that those extrapolations have morphed into expectations. Then, if those expectations are not met by reality, we are unhappy.
People with higher-than-average intelligence have a higher-than-average ability to imagine and extrapolate. Thus, they have a higher-than-average ability to create expectations. Since, more often than not, expectations are not met by reality, such people are more likely to be unhappy as a result.
- Rob |