What actually is happiness and what is the definition of it ? Maybe most of you think that happiness means having a great family or a successful work. Or maybe the right partner can make your life happier? Well, all of these things are not enough to make you happy.
The definition of happiness is different from person-to-person. But, an intelligent person views life a bit differently and things that should make you feel uplifted, can’t make them happy. They always aim for something bigger and most of the times this is the reason for their sorrow.
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” – Ernest Hemimgway
These people are not satisfied easily because their high IQ gives them the power to imagine bigger things. Some even, go way too far with their intense imagination that it becomes quite difficult for them to enjoy all the good thing they already have in their life.
Down is a list of 5 possible reasons why intelligent people can’t find happiness easily in life:
1. Intelligent people over analyze their life:
These people just keep analyzing all the things that occur in their life. They tend to think too much before doing something which is the result of confusion and frustration.
The ability to analyze the things is great but you need to stop paying attention to everything and overfill your brain with rubbish and unimportant things. Sometimes, you can be uplifting, happy and cheerful by simply ignoring certain things in your life.
2. They feel misunderstood and sometimes lonely:
People with high intelligence, hardly find somebody who can understand what they think and look on things from their perspective. They can’t find like-minded people to have around them who can understand what their views are.
They almost always feel misunderstood and sometimes lonely and often no one actually appreciates the depth with which they can see and analyze the things around them.
3. They often develop psychological issues:
This may sound strange but, studies have proved that there is a connection between intelligent brains and psychiatric disorders like social anxiety. In fact you might be shocked to know that sometimes, depression results from over-thinking. And there are times where you think so much and there comes a time when you just start thinking about life and death and that is what makes you unhappy.
4. They often want to match everything with high IQ:
People with high intelligence want everything to be as they expected, no matter if it is related to relationships, career or anything else in their life. That is the reason why it is difficult to satisfy them and make them happy as they have little practical intelligence that doesn’t help them in coping with the ways of the world.
5. Most of the time they are hard on themselves:
Also, one of the reasons why such people remain unhappy is they often compare themselves against the highest standards out there.
They even end up blaming themselves if they lack something. If something goes wrong, it haunts their mind and reminds them how they had failed to do things the right way. These types of flashbacks are enough to make them unhappy for quite some time.