Why Intelligent People Tend To Be Unhappy
This is an interesting article
Why people who are so clever, are stupid enough to be unhappy. Maybe they subconsciously choose to be unhappy? I know people like this… those negative ones who are never satisfied with their lives. It irritates me to no end.
Happiness
in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. |
- Ernest
Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961) |
Children
develop along four streams: intellectual, physical, emotional (psychological)
and social. In classrooms, the smartest kids tend to be left out of more
activities by other children than they are included in. They are
“odd,” they are the geeks, they are social outsiders. In other words,
they do not develop socially as well as they may develop intellectually or even
physically where opportunities may exist for more progress. |
Adults
tend to believe that intelligent kids can deal with anything because they are
intellectually superior. This inevitably includes situations where the
intelligent kids have neither knowledge nor skills to support their experience.
They go through the tough times alone. Adults don’t understand that they need
help and other kids don’t want to associate with kids the social leaders say
are outsiders. |
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The reason why intelligent kids are “left out” is because they exclude themselves, they spend most of their time empowering their minds by going to libraries rather than playing sport for example with other kids.
I think alot of most modern intelligent children are forced to be unhappy, look at the world around them, its nothing but tragedy, and there only escape is knowledge, something once thought to only be obtainable only from schooling. However, modern schools arent about the independent pursuit of knowledge rather, modern schools make it so if your intellectually superior you must wait and learn at the level of the slowest member of your class so that way we all allegedly get by, however this forces the intelligent to look upon this is a sheer waste of time and in doing so they loose interest in the slow lectures of the classroom and pursue knowledge obtainable by themselves, thus lowering their grades, and intern stress rises at home, and amongst there slower peers ( the cause of their mundane schooling )