Do you ever feel like you know too much or are too smart? I feel like most people who are content/happy are oblivious to so many things, while I am so anal that I spend so much effort reasoning why something won't make me happy (and I usually succeed).
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Ignorance is bliss. No really it is. People who are ignorant of things do not lay awake all night thinking about those things. I know way too much, I also spend a lot of time thinking about what I know - I am "content" I am not "happy" all the time. The secret here is to seek contentment - not happiness. No one can be happy all the time - they can be content. BTW the more intelligent a person is the more they "rationalize" everything. That can be a detriment in many situations.
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As Athrael wrote, ignorance is bliss. And 'the unexamined life is not worth living', but then moderation in everything, including moderation. I'd say you need to get some physical exercise!
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It's impossible to be TOO smart. Although it's possible, and common, to be too self-conscious.
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I do think that ignorance is bliss and I don't like it anyway. Some people seem very happy to not care much about anything. Not my idea of living I am more the anal type lol but I am very happy mostly
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Me? Yeah... I have this problem. I'm aware of my strength, weaknesses, sincerity, deception... It's double sided - I like to think of myself as a wise person, but feeling aware over inflates my ego to the point where I doubt if I'm really all that wise, and all of a sudden I'm a jerk in my own eyes. Yeah, I over think things, not book wise, but in another form.
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Yes. Then I watch some documentary on space and realize that I still can't wrap my brain around such abstract concepts as gravity and the space/ time continuum and I start to feel like everybody else. It's all relative lol.
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I think I'm smart but not TOO smart. The problem is that I am just smart enough to question everything, so I end up dissatisfied. I am ultra dismissive and can be cynical about just about anything, e.g. I hear about someone getting married and I think, "Whatever, they'll just get divorced. As if anyone ever means 'for better or for worse.'" If I hear about some great new treatment, I think, "Yeah whatever, some pharmaceutical set-up with side-effect after side-effect." And in every relationship I've ever had, I end up visualising the end of it even before it's really started. So bad.
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I'm not sure whether I am intelligent or not, I'm not too knowledgable. But I am very aware and I find that quite depressing.
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