[yuvalkarmi]

For anyone interested the tl;dr, here it is: smart people aren’t necessarily happier because intelligence mostly helps with well-defined problems (logic, puzzles, work tasks).

Happiness depends on poorly-defined problems (relationships, meaning, values, identity).

Being good at solving structured problems doesn’t equal being good at navigating the messy, ambiguous ones that actually determine well-being.

Oh well

[int_19h]

It's even worse than that. If you try to apply pure reason to a problem like meaning or values - because you're conditioned to approach any problem this way - the results are often outright depressing.