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Why aren't smart people happier?
This is why the people who score well on intelligence tests and win lots of chess games are no happier than the people who flunk the tests and lose at chess: well-defined and poorly defined problems require completely different problem-solving skills. Life ain’t chess! Nobody agrees on the rules, the pieces do whatever they want, and the board cove... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Why Aren't Smart People Happier?
Naturally, people with more of this mental horsepower must live happier lives. When they encounter a problem, they should use their superior problem-solving ability to solve it. Smarter people should do a better job making plans and getting what they want, and they should learn more from their mistakes and subsequently make fewer of them. All of th... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Why Aren't Smart People Happier?
And third, using your “higher faculties” doesn't always leave you better off. As I wrote recently, smart people aren’t happier. That’s partly because people have all sorts of wrong theories about the things that make them happy, so all their smarty-pants scheming is in vain. In fact, sometimes thinking harder actually makes people worse at figuring... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs
One way to spot people who are good at solving poorly defined problems is to look for people who feel good about their lives; “how do I live a life I like” is a humdinger of a poorly defined problem.
Adam Mastroianni • Why Aren't Smart People Happier?
Measuring how smart people are is somewhat pointless – intelligence is categorical. Somebody can be super good at analytical ‘figuring out stuff,’ and super useless at conceptualizing what to do next.