Is happiness inversely proportional to intelligence?

Answer 1

Happiness is the intelligence/free will to do the right thing. The more important is to make the world better (it means to make history – it's the duty of the free men).
So, 'intelligence' is inversely proportional to its true importance – the happiness of making the right thing.

Answer 2

There may be a bit of a correlation, the smarter you are the better choices you generally make, so one could say that leads to a happier situation, but in reality it all depends on the person and how they view the world around them. Someone too unintelligent to know the world was ending would be happy whereas a smart person who knew it may just be unhappy because of it. So in other words, I've changed my mind and there is probably little to no correlation.

Answer 3

NO!
DEFINITELY NOT!!!

It is surprising how many people lack the simple ability to enjoy life! They grab onto negative emotions at every opportunity and pull them tightly in around themselves like a warm cloak on a cold day.
Would anyone call THAT intelligent? I certainly wouldn't!

Here's a little story I included in an answer to a different question several months ago:

Four people bypass a busy, heavily congested intersection on their way to work, through the morning rush-hour traffic, by short-cutting across a large parking lot. Then, one day, the owner of the lot has parking bumps installed in various patterns across it.

Person A - is DEVASTATED! Her morning commute has been irrevocably ruined! She subsequently avoids the parking lot and suffers through the traffic congestion in the busy intersection - even leaves home a few minutes earlier to allow for it. As she approaches that area every morning, she feels a miserable sense of loss that stays with her all the way to work and sometimes even into the start of her work day.

Person B - IGNORES the bumps completely. He roars across them in his 4-wheel-drive macho-mobile as if they weren't even there - because, as far as he's concerned, they're NOT. He does not acknowledge their presence in any way.

Person C - HATES the bumps. He gets angry as he approaches the area every morning. He still cuts across the lot but drives around the bumps, cursing them as he goes. His anger always lasts for several blocks past the lot. He fantasizes about taking a sledge-hammer and smashing them into powder.

Person D - is DELIGHTED! She instantly finds a new game in the new parking bumps. She sees how fast she can dodge around them while still maintaining a sensible margin of safety. Everey morning she looks forward to running her new personal "slalom course".

The EXACT SAME experience happened to all four of these people, yet each processed it differently in his or her own mind. Which one would YOU think had the smartest emotional response?
A. Categorizing it as negative and mourning over it?
B. Categorizing it as neutral and ignoring it?
C. Categorizing it as negative and going into anger over it?
D. Categorizing it as positive and finding enjoyment in it?

FYI, Person D is a real person and has an IQ of 152.

Answer 4

I don't think so at all as happiness/depression are controlled by serotonin which has nothing to do with intelligence.

Answer 5

Many clever human beings have confidence in a faith with a god or gods or different supernatural beings. Even scientists will compartmentalize their non secular ideals, no longer subjecting them to a similar doubts and questions -- "How do all of us be conscious of that?" "What might desire to coach that it relatively is fake?" -- they follow to different factors of the international. Religions stepped forward as the thank you to hunt for solutions, to fulfill specific common human desires, and to enable our total brains, no longer happy with precis words, turn to and communicate with an embodiment of each little thing it relatively is sweet and appropriate. particularly some clever surely everyone seems to be non secular humanists, who settle for non secular ritual jointly as insisting that gods are human innovations. Many different clever surely everyone seems to be secular humanists, who have confidence in dwelling a competent, finished, ethical, and exuberant existence with out turning to gods in any respect. (we'd desire to continuously ask, does "faith" might desire to contain the unprovable and supernatural? Liberals from some non secular traditions enable for reinterpreting "God" as an exhibit personification, particularly than a "Mr. Universe in the heavens with a white beard" with an self sufficient existence.)

Answer 6

supposedly happy people are stupid and smart people are miserable because they know the reailty of life and people and all the bad crap that could, will, and does happen.

Answer 7

ignorance is bliss