Smart but Unhappy: 6 Life Failures of People with High IQ
The article lists six typical life mistakes that, according to psychologists, people with high IQ make due to a lack of common sense: choosing a partner based on a 'resume', a career for money, chasing prestigious education, loyalty to toxic people, substituting happiness with status, and ignoring true needs.
Based on a Your Tango article, the piece lists six typical life failures that, according to psychologists, people with high IQ make due to a lack of 'ordinary life common sense'. The first trap is choosing a partner 'with the head, not the heart', where intellectuals focus on a 'resume' and a list of virtues rather than real feelings. The second mistake is building a career solely for money, not out of love, leading to years of work in an uninteresting field. The third is chasing prestigious education, ignoring the university's atmosphere and one's own feelings. The fourth is loyalty to toxic people due to excessive empathy and analysis of their motives. The fifth is substituting happiness with status and an endless race for promotions to gain approval from others. The sixth is ignoring one's real needs and blindly believing in an 'objectively correct' life path. The article concludes that intelligence helps understand possibilities, while common sense helps decide which ones to pursue.