Why Intelligent People Are So Miserable In This World? A US-Based Study Reveals!
Why Are Smart People So Miserable? The answer may surprise you, since it's the very thing you've been told will make you truly happy In the recently-published book If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy? , Professor Raj Raghunathan of the University of Texas at Austin explains that smart people make themselves unhappy by measuring themselves against external yardsticks that become ever more difficult to achieve. As Raghunathan explained in The Atlantic article: "If you get a huge raise this month, you might be happy for a month, two months, maybe six months. But after that, you're going to get used to it and you're going to want another big bump. And you'll want to keep getting those in order to sustain your happiness levels. In most people you can see that that's not a very sustainable source of happiness." Smart people tend to be very goal-oriented, which makes them peculiarly vulnerable to tying their happiness to "winnin...