Why So Many Highly Intelligent People Are So Unhappy

Reversing the link between intellectual excitability and unhappiness.

Uncle Jeff and I, when he was in town visiting.

My uncle Jeff was one of the most achievement oriented people you could ever meet. After being valedictorian of his high school, he went to Princeton, and later became a top neurosurgeon at John’s Hopkins, one of the world’s leading hospitals for brain surgery.