Life Theory

Here's a short life theory that I came up with regarding why more intelligent people are more unhappy. Generally speaking, more intelligent people tend to be people who are adept at critical thinking. Critical thinking usually involves breaking things down and analyzing what is wrong. This is useful if one elects to fix those things that one perceives as wrong as this usually brings about a sense of fulfillment, a sense of action! However, I believe critical thinking usually culminates in identifying that which is wrong and not doing anything about it because one can't for some reason or another. Therefore, a critical thinker is left identifying a whole bunch of things that are wrong, "negatives". A critical thinker often has difficulty turning off his "critical thinking" and therefore dwells on "negatives". There are, however, "positives" and I would define these as instances where the critical thinker is surprised by excellence through creativity.  Making an analogy to music, a critical thinker would be bored with the stereotypical, average pop music because... Well it is average. However, when somebody does something new, "redefines the game" (credit goes to Gavin here I believe), a critical thinker is impressed by this excellence. However, since this is not the average, it occurs by definition less frequently. Therefore, a "critical thinker" is stuck with a majority of things that bore him/her, "negatives", and a minority of "positives". The math speaks for itself. My conclusion is that to be happier, one has to involve oneself in activities that cause one to focus so much on the activity that one doesn't have time to critically think (#flow).

This saved as a draft originally, sorry!