If You’re Not Happy, Can You Even Consider Yourself Smart?

PSA to smart and miserable people out there

Your IQ is irrelevant.

In fact, if you have a high IQ and you don’t like your life, you’re even worse off than a dumb person who enjoys theirs.

You see so many of these types. The snickerers who appear to be ‘above it all’ because they’re ‘so smart.’

In reality, they’re the ones who don’t get it.

If you aren’t happy with your life, you're optimizing for all the wrong things.

Let’s fix that.

Fight to Cure a Major Cause of Anxiety

Notice how often you move through life with a sense of unidentified unease — this ‘refrigerator hum’ of anxiety.

Your refrigerator makes noise, but you rarely hear it because of other sounds in your home that drown it out. But when your home is completely silent, you can hear it. It’s strangely loud.

Low-level anxiety feels like this. Not clinically diagnosed anxiety, just this general feeling of anxiousness that comes with being alive.

That anxiety comes from knowing what you’re supposed to do, but failing to do it.