[extropy-chat] IQ not key to happiness

[The Avantguardian]

--- Brett Paatsch <bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> IQ not the key to a happy life
>
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15945311%255E30417,00.html
> 
> Money can't buy you happiness, and now it seems
> brains can't either.
> 
> ..."might be because smarter people were more likely
> to be aware of 
> alternative lifestyles, or to have higher
> expectations or aspirations, the
> authors suggested.
> 
> '...the quality of social networks was likely to
> play a far bigger role, 
> he said. "People value you more for your
> contribution, rather than
> whether you are smart" he said.'
> 

"For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that
increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."
                  -Ecclesiastes 1:18 


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