Why Intelligent people don’t find happiness easily

Intelligent people are gifted with the true power of having high intelligence. Some are gifted when they are born, while others develop it as time goes on.

It is because of these intelligent people that we have so many innovations happening around in the world. It is only because of them the world is today a better place. However, it seems like everything is good in this world, but we are yet to look at the other side of the story.

So let’s go in to find more why intelligent people find is extremely difficult to be happy:

Over Analyzing everything

When you are highly intelligent, you get the power to analyze things. Not just simple things, but everything you see. Most of the time intelligent people analyze things to a deeper level and due to this they get trapped into their own intelligence.

However, it is good to analyze things before making a decision, but intelligent people always tend to get into “What if” analysis mode. Because intelligent people are used to do such kind and level of analysis for everything they see, and sometime this can be an hindrance for them.

High Standards

Intelligent people know exactly what they need from a particular activity and when things fall short of their standards, they fail to satisfy themselves. This goes for pretty much everything in life - job, career, relationships, family, friends.

While the truth is not all the time we can meet our own expectations and sometimes it’s okay not to be on the top. Because life is not a race.

Over Ambitious Dreams

Highly intelligent people have exceptional dreams, which may or may not be possible to fulfill all the time. However, it is true that they work hard to get to that but not everytime you can get to what you really aimed for, especially when your dreams itself are over ambitious.

The world definitely needs this kind of people, but we should not feel down when things don’t work out way. There is always a way to get things done the other way. You know it when I say to you to have a backup plan always.

Very few meaningful conversations

Intelligent people always look for like minded people around them to have a meaningful conversation. Ofcourse, this doesn’t mean that they don’t talk anything apart from meaningful and intellectual conversations.

Intelligent people are funny and have good sense of humor too. But most of the time they always look for people whom they can share their knowledge. Most importantly, they look for someone who can understand their knowledge, and this is something not easy to get. Sometime it becomes frustrating when nobody understand intelligent people what they truly want to communicate and this makes them really unhappy.

Develops mental problems

Many studies have found that people with high intelligence and high level of IQ are more likely to get bipolar disorders and anxiety. However, you might think that if they are intelligent, why would they get into all of these problems?

But the truth is they have high level of dissatisfaction around them with pretty much everything in life. This makes them feel lonely, unsocialize and eventually depressed.

Ultimately, everybody hold the key to their own happiness. The surrounding might play and important role, but not entirely the way how we perceive happiness. I feel it is just a matter of perspective.

If you are one among them and feel like it isn’t easy to get happiness then share your comments and I will personally respond to you.

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